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Reading Passages, Questions & Answers - First Grade
Below you’ll find 1st grade reading comprehension passages along with questions and answers. These printable, elementary school worksheet activities include excerpts from short stories and books as well as high-interest information topics.
Jenny and her mom were baking cookies for the class party. They had made many, many cookies. Jenny liked to decorate them with different icing colors. But when she looked in the cupboard for the food coloring, she saw that she only had three colors: blue, red, and yellow.…
Rikki-tikki-tavi is a brave young mongoose. He lives in an English household in India, where he protects the family from a dangerous pair of cobras, Nag and Nagaina. Rikki has already helped kill another snake, Karait, who almost killed the English boy, Teddy. Now he has learned of the cobras’…
A poor Woodman was cutting down a tree near the edge of a deep pool in the forest. It was late in the day and the Woodman was tired. He had been working since sunrise and his strokes were not so sure as they had been early that morning. Thus…
In 1941, World War II was raging in Europe, but the U.S. had not entered the war. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese aircraft and naval ships attacked the U.S. military at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. Over 2,400 people were killed, and the U.S. lost…
There was once upon a time a poor widow who had an only son named Jack, and a cow named Milky-white. And all they had to live on was the milk the cow gave every morning which they carried to the market and sold. But one morning Milky-white gave no…
Ebony was a small, black horse. She was the youngest horse on her farm. When children would visit the farm, Ebony’s mother let them sit on her back and ride around the corral. The corral was an open space with a fence that formed a big ring around all the…
Brenda was a young beaver. She lived with her family in a lodge made of sticks and mud. It was a cozy house in the middle of a large pond, but it was getting too small. Brenda had older brothers who were ready to build lodges. Everyone in Brenda’s family was…
In 1879, Scottish author and poet Robert Louis Stevenson took a train from New York City to San Francisco. He wrote about this trip in his travel memoir Across the Plains. This passage is about his arrival in San Francisco after a long and difficult trip across the Great Plains…
Andrew loved cats. He liked their soft fur and pointy ears. He liked the way they walked so softly that you could barely hear them. He even liked when they licked his hand with their rough tongues. Andrew was very excited to have a kitten of his own. The kitten was…
Most days, Alexis woke up when her alarm clock beeped. Today she felt something tap on her legs. Then she felt a cold wet spot on her cheek. She opened her eyes. “Good morning, Bandit!” Alexis said. Bandit was a fluffy black and white puppy with floppy ears and a…
