2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets: The Costume Swap
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Skill: Reading a story: problem and solution questions
Teaching tips and what to try next
This story centers on a problem and its solution, a story structure second graders learn to spot. Before answering, have your child say what went wrong and how it was fixed in one sentence each. For another story at this level, try Reading Comprehension: Soccer Saturday.
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About this worksheet
In this original second grade story, Rosa and her friend Ben have outgrown their old costumes just before Book Character Day at school. Instead of buying new ones, Rosa comes up with a plan: a costume swap in the school library, where kids bring an old costume and take a different one home. The story is short, warm and easy to follow, and it shows a clear problem and solution.
The story comes first, then four multiple-choice questions and one short written answer. The questions ask what was wrong with Rosa's costume, why Ben needed a new one, where the swap happened, which costume Rosa picked, and how Rosa solved her problem.
How to use it: read the story together, or let your child read it aloud to you. After each question, ask your child to point to the sentence in the story that proves the answer. This habit of going back to the text is one of the most important reading skills in second grade. For the last question, a good answer names the problem (old costumes that did not fit) and the solution (the swap).
The answer key gives each correct choice with a quote from the story and a sample written answer. For another story, try our Soccer Saturday: Grade 2 Reading Comprehension worksheet.