Starts With L Reading Comprehension Worksheet

The letter L is easy to say and easy to miss. This starts with L reading comprehension worksheet puts the /l/ sound everywhere a first grader will meet it — at the start of a name, a noun, a verb and an adjective — and wraps all of it inside a story worth reading. Andrea kneels behind a long log at a lake and watches a little lizard leap, land, lick a drop of water and lie in the sun. Every sentence is written to first-grade measures, so a student who is still building fluency can read the whole page independently and still hear the target sound again and again.

This 1st grade alphabet worksheet is a three-page, no-prep printable. Page one carries the illustrated story, page two carries the questions, and the last page is the answer key. Students read the 104-word passage, then answer five multiple-choice questions with three fill-in-the-bubble choices each. The questions are drawn from all four paragraphs, so a child cannot answer them from the first two sentences, and every answer is stated plainly in the text. Print it, hand it out, and the reading, the phonics practice and the checking are all done for you.

What’s Included

• 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
• Answer key
• A 104-word original story loaded with beginning-L words and 5 multiple-choice questions

Three things make this starts with L reading comprehension worksheet worth the ten minutes it takes. First, the phonics and the comprehension are taught together rather than on two separate sheets, so a child practices the /l/ sound while doing real reading work. Second, the passage is measured on grade instead of guessed at, which means the sentences are short, the vocabulary is familiar, and the reading demand matches what a first grader meets on an assessment. Third, the questions ask where, what and how a character felt, so students practice locating evidence in a text instead of just recognizing a letter.

Ways to Use It

• Have students circle or highlight every word in the story that begins with L before they answer.
• Read the story aloud once, then let students reread it quietly and answer on their own.
• Use the five questions as a quick reading check in a small group or a guided reading rotation.
• Ask students to write one new sentence about the lizard using three words that start with L.

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