U Like Hut Reading Comprehension Worksheet
This U Like Hut Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 1st grade readers a short passage about a cozy hut packed with short u words, five multiple-choice questions and an answer key for easy phonics practice.
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Description
First graders are learning that a vowel can make a short sound in the middle of a word, and the short u sound shows up in many of the words they read every day. This U Like Hut Reading Comprehension Worksheet puts that sound inside a real text. The short informational passage is all about a hut: what a hut is, how the hot sun dries its mud walls, what its thick grass roof does, and what you might find inside. It is packed with short u words such as hut, just, mud, sun, until, rug, cup, jug, drum, fun, shut and snug, so children hear and read the sound again and again while they read for meaning.
The first page pairs the passage with a bright picture of the inside of a hut, with a colorful rug, a cup, a jug and a little drum. Five multiple-choice questions follow on their own page, each with three choices and a bubble to fill in, and they are drawn from every paragraph of the text. Read the passage aloud together first, then let students reread it on their own, underline each short u word they find, and answer the questions.
What’s Included
- A one-page informational passage about a hut, full of short u words, with a full-color picture
- Five multiple-choice comprehension questions with three choices each
- A complete answer key
Why It Helps Kids
First, it practices the short u sound in connected text instead of in a list, which is how children will meet it in books. Second, it builds reading comprehension with questions that send readers back into the text for the answer. Third, it teaches a little about homes around the world and how people build with simple materials like mud, sticks and grass.
Ideas for Teachers and Parents
Have children list every short u word from the passage and sort the words by their ending sound. Build a tiny hut together from clay and twigs, then read the passage again and compare. Use this 1st grade short vowels worksheet in a phonics center, and pair the U Like Hut reading comprehension worksheet with the other stories in the series for more vowel practice.
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