2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets: Baking Day
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Skill: Reading an original short story about a weekend baking day and answering text-based questions
Teaching tips and what to try next
Suited to second graders who read short stories and can point back to a sentence for each answer. Ask how Jade and Mateo worked as a team, since their shared steps drive the plot. Another weekend story is in Reading Comprehension: The Lemonade Stand, and a sports Saturday is in Reading Comprehension: Soccer Saturday.
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About this worksheet
Short stories give second graders a chance to practice looking back in the text for answers. This second grade reading comprehension worksheet tells an original story about two friends who spend a Saturday morning baking bread together. The setting is an ordinary weekend in the kitchen, so the focus stays on characters, sequence and details.
Jade waits for her friend Mateo, they mix and knead dough, wait for it to rise, and share warm slices when the loaf comes out of the oven. Four multiple-choice questions ask why they baked, what Mateo brought, why a timer was set and what they did while the dough rose. A fifth open question asks how Mateo felt at the end and how the reader knows. Every answer can be found in the passage.
How to use it: have your child read the story once for fun, then read each question and hunt for the sentence that proves the answer. For the open question, ask them to point to the words that show Mateo's feelings before they write. Talking about the steps of a real recipe at home is a natural follow-up.
The answer key shows the correct choice for each multiple-choice question and a sample response for the open question. For another second grade story about a weekend plan, try our Reading Comprehension: The Lemonade Stand worksheet. For a sports Saturday story, try our Reading Comprehension: Soccer Saturday worksheet.