The Greedy Bird Reading Comprehension Worksheet

The Greedy Bird Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives second grade readers a short, gentle fable to read closely and then answer questions about. Reading comprehension is the skill of understanding what a story actually says, holding the events in order, and thinking about what they mean. A fable is a perfect place to practice it, because the story is short enough to reread and the lesson is something children can talk about. In this story a hungry crow asks a kind cat to share her lunch, takes far more than his share, and then finds a way to make it right the next morning.

The passage in The Greedy Bird Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives your students a full page story followed by a clean question page, so reading and answering never crowd each other. The passage is written and measured for second grade, so the vocabulary and the sentence length match what your readers can handle on their own. Because this 2nd grade reading comprehension worksheet is print and go, there is nothing to prepare. Print the pages back to back, read the story together or let students read it independently, then let them work through the questions. The answer key is the last page, so grading takes moments.

What’s Included

• A one page original fable, The Greedy Bird, written at a second grade reading level
• A full color illustration of the crow, the berries and the cat
• Four multiple choice questions covering setting, detail, inference and the lesson of the story
• One written response question that asks for two pieces of evidence from the text
• A complete answer key on the final page

Three Reasons This Helps Kids

• Short fables build reading stamina without overwhelming a young reader, so students finish the page feeling successful.
• The questions move from what the story says to what the story means, which is exactly the jump second graders are asked to make.
• The written response teaches students to point back at the text for proof instead of guessing, a habit that pays off in every subject.

Teacher and Parent Ideas

• Use the story as a shared read aloud first, then hand out the question page for independent work.
• Ask students to retell the fable in their own words to a partner before they write anything down.
• Turn question five into a class discussion about a time someone made something right again.
• Keep the passage page in a reading folder so students can reread it for fluency practice later in the week.

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