Grade 1 Reading Comprehension Worksheets

About This Worksheet Collection

The Grade 1 Reading Comprehension collection offers a series of engaging, age-appropriate passages designed to help young learners strengthen their understanding of text through fun, relatable stories. Each worksheet provides a clear, structured reading task followed by comprehension questions, sequencing activities, or creative prompts that encourage both analytical and expressive thinking. Topics range from everyday adventures to acts of kindness, giving first graders meaningful opportunities to practice literacy skills in familiar contexts.

Through this collection, students develop essential early reading strategies such as identifying key details, making predictions, comparing ideas, and understanding story structure. Every worksheet reinforces comprehension while fostering social-emotional awareness, creativity, and vocabulary growth. With visual and written response options, these activities appeal to diverse learning styles and help children connect reading to their own lives, setting a strong foundation for lifelong literacy.

Detailed Descriptions Of These Worksheets

Kind Actions
Students read about a boy named Liam who shows kindness by sharing his toy cars. After answering comprehension questions, they draw a picture that represents the story's events. This worksheet builds reading comprehension, empathy, and the ability to identify character traits and details.

Caring for Pets
Learners read a nonfiction passage about pet care and select the sentence that best represents the main idea. The activity teaches how to distinguish between supporting details and central concepts, developing comprehension of informational text and critical analysis.

Puppy Clues
In this story, students follow a lost puppy's journey home. They underline key details explaining how it happens and circle the final event to show sequencing understanding. The exercise promotes attentive reading, inference-making, and awareness of cause and effect.

Lost Crayons
Students read about Mia's missing crayons and answer questions focused on the problem and its solution. They then draw a picture of the story's resolution. The worksheet strengthens comprehension, sequencing, and creative expression through story analysis.

Seed to Sprout
This passage follows Leo as he plants a seed and watches it grow. Students match causes to their effects, learning how actions lead to outcomes. The activity connects literacy to science by emphasizing logical relationships and plant growth understanding.

Rabbit and Turtle
A retelling of the classic fable helps students organize story events into beginning, middle, and end. Learners also draw to illustrate comprehension of sequence and moral lessons. This exercise develops narrative understanding and reinforces reading fluency.

Kite Prediction
Students read the start of a story about Eli flying his kite and pause to predict what will happen next. They write or draw their predictions, building imagination, inference, and contextual reasoning. The task fosters anticipation and creative problem-solving in reading.

Getting to School
In this compare-and-contrast activity, students read about Sam and Lily's different morning routines. A simple chart helps them organize similarities and differences. This worksheet builds comprehension, analytical thinking, and organization of textual information.

Fun at the Park
Students read about Mia's day at the park and answer "who, what, where, when, and why" questions. The exercise strengthens recall, comprehension, and understanding of story elements. It's an excellent practice for identifying key details and responding to text-based questions.

Dog's Summary
Learners summarize a story about Max the dog using a structured frame that includes the main idea, problem, and solution. This helps students practice identifying essential details and expressing them concisely. The worksheet promotes comprehension and writing fluency.

Picnic Time
After reading about Anna's family picnic, students draw and write about their own picnic experiences. The activity connects reading with personal reflection, strengthening comprehension and narrative writing. It encourages creativity and text-to-self connections.

Luna's Morning
Students read a story about Luna the cat chasing a butterfly and mark whether statements are true or false. The exercise develops careful reading, fact-checking, and attention to detail. It reinforces comprehension accuracy and text-based reasoning.