What Flavor is This Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Flavor is one of the first things a young child can describe without being taught a single new idea. An apple is sweet, a lemon is sour, a pretzel is salty, and every kindergartner already knows the difference. This what flavor is this reading comprehension worksheet turns that everyday knowledge into early reading practice. Three short riddles describe a food by how it looks, where it comes from and how it tastes, and the last line of each one names it. Because the reader already has the answer in their mouth, so to speak, the whole of their attention can go to the words.

This kindergarten food worksheet is a three-page printable. Page one carries the passage and a watercolor picture of the three foods on a kitchen table. Page two holds five multiple-choice questions with three choices each, drawn from all three riddles so a child has to look back at the text rather than remember the last line. Page three is the answer key. The sentences are four to six words long and set in large type, which is what a kindergarten reader needs to track a line without losing the place.

What’s Included

• 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
• 1 illustrated reading passage
• 5 multiple-choice comprehension questions
• Answer key

There are three reasons this what flavor is this reading comprehension worksheet helps early readers. First, the subject is already familiar, so the only new work is decoding and recall, not background knowledge. Second, each riddle follows the same pattern, and a repeated sentence shape lets a beginning reader predict what comes next and read with more confidence each time. Third, the questions ask about different kinds of detail, a taste, a texture, a place and a topping, so a child practices searching the text for a particular fact instead of answering from memory.

Try tasting the three foods in class and sorting them onto a sweet, sour and salty chart before reading. Ask children to invent a fourth riddle for a food they like, using the same three lines. Bring the sheet into a science lesson on the five senses, where taste is often the easiest sense to talk about. It also pairs well with a lesson on describing words, since sweet, sour, crisp and hard are adjectives doing real work.

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