1st Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets: The Rainy Day Fort
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The worksheet is 2 pages (passage, then questions); the answer key is 1 page. Print at 100% / "Actual size" on US Letter paper. Free for personal and classroom use.
Skill: Reading a short story and answering detail questions
Teaching tips and what to try next
A good fit for first graders who are reading short sentences on their own with a little help on new words. Ask your child to underline the sentence that answers each question before choosing a letter. Another first-grade story is Reading Comprehension: The Lost Mitten; the next level up is Reading Comprehension: Soccer Saturday.
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About this worksheet
This first-grade reading comprehension worksheet features "The Rainy Day Fort," an original short story about a brother and sister who find a fun way to spend a rainy morning. When rain spoils Nate's plan to play soccer, his big sister June helps him build a blanket fort with chairs, pillows, and a flashlight. The story is about 180 words long and uses short sentences and familiar words that suit beginning readers.
After the story come four multiple-choice questions and one short written answer. The questions ask about key details: why Nate could not play soccer, what the children used to build the fort, what Nate's book was about, and who made a shadow bird. The last question asks how Nate felt about the fort at the end and how the reader knows, which practices using clues from the story to describe a character.
How to use it: read the story aloud together first, then let your child read it again on their own or with help. Before answering each question, have your child find the sentence in the story that gives the answer and put a finger on it. This habit of looking back is one of the most important reading skills in first grade. For the last question, help your child notice what Nate does and says at the end, such as smiling and asking to play again.
The answer key gives the correct choice for each question, the words from the story that prove it, and a sample answer. For another first-grade story, try our Reading Comprehension: The Lost Mitten worksheet.