This Makes That Reading Comprehension Worksheet
This Makes That Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 2nd graders an original sunflower story plus five cause-and-effect questions. Answer key included, so one page of reading practice is ready to print and grade in minutes.
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Cause and effect is one of the first big reading moves a second grader makes: noticing that something happened, and then asking what made it happen. This This Makes That Reading Comprehension Worksheet takes that idea out of the abstract and puts it inside a real story about a girl named Hadley, a handful of sunflower seeds, and one long summer of watching them grow. Every step of her garden depends on the step before it, so the causes and the effects are already linked for the reader to find.
The worksheet opens with an original 153-word narrative passage written at a second-grade reading level, paired with a full-color illustration of the moment Hadley realizes her sunflower has grown taller than she is. On the next page, four multiple-choice questions and one written response ask the child to trace the chain backward: what made the shoots push up, why the birds came, and what happened right after each seed went into the ground. Used as a 2nd grade cause and effect worksheet, it works equally well for guided reading, a comprehension center, morning work, homework, or a quick check before a unit test.
What’s Included
- 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
- Answer key
- 1 original 153-word cause-and-effect passage with a full-color illustration
- 4 multiple-choice comprehension questions
- 1 written-response question with room to answer using text evidence
Three things make this resource work for young readers. First, the causes are carried by real signal words — because, so, after — that children can underline and reuse in their own writing. Second, the story is short enough to reread, which is exactly what a second grader needs to do before answering a cause-and-effect question with confidence. Third, the questions climb: two ask for a stated cause, one asks for the main idea, and the written response asks the child to choose evidence and explain it, which is the same skill state reading assessments measure. Because this This Makes That Reading Comprehension Worksheet includes a complete answer key, you can check the whole page in under a minute or hand it to a student to self-check.
Teachers and parents can stretch the skill well past the page. Draw a two-column chart on the board and sort the story’s events into causes and effects. Give children a cause card — “it rained for two days” — and let them write three different effects. Plant seeds in a paper cup on the windowsill and keep a class log of what caused each change. Or read a favorite picture book aloud and pause every few pages to ask the same two questions this worksheet asks: what happened, and what made it happen?
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