What Animal Is That Reading Comprehension Worksheet
This What Animal Is That reading comprehension worksheet gives Kindergarten readers three short animal riddles, five multiple-choice questions and an answer key, so early comprehension practice and checking both happen on one printable.
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Description
A Kindergartner who is only beginning to read still needs a reason to look closely at every word, and a riddle gives one. Say that an animal has soft fur, long whiskers and a voice that says meow, and a five-year-old will read the whole sentence just to name the cat waiting at the end of it. That is the idea behind this What Animal Is That reading comprehension worksheet: three tiny riddles, each one describing a familiar animal by the things a child already knows about it, so the clues and the answer sit together in the same three short lines.
This What Animal Is That reading comprehension 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 53-word passage about a cat, a pig and a bird, then answer five multiple-choice questions with three fill-in-the-bubble choices each. The questions are drawn from all three riddles, so a child cannot answer them from the first paragraph alone, and every answer is stated plainly in the text.
What’s Included
- 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
- Answer key
- A 53-word original animal passage and 5 multiple-choice questions
Three things make this kindergarten animals worksheet worth the eight minutes it takes. First, the riddle format asks a child to hold three details in mind before naming the animal, which is inference at the earliest level a five-year-old can manage it. Second, the sentences are measured on grade rather than guessed at, so the vocabulary and the sentence length match what a kindergartner meets on a reading check. Third, the fill-in-the-bubble format gives young students early practice with the way answers are marked on almost every assessment they will sit from here on.
Ways to Use It
- Read each riddle aloud once, then let students reread it quietly and answer on their own.
- Have students underline the clue words in the story before they fill in a bubble.
- Cover the last line of a riddle and let the class guess the animal from the clues alone.
- Ask students to write one new riddle about a farm animal of their own.
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