Grade 6 Reading Comprehension Worksheets

About This Worksheet Collection

The Grade 6 Reading Comprehension collection engages middle-grade learners with a variety of thought-provoking passages, from fables and historical texts to scientific readings and persuasive essays. Each worksheet blends literacy with higher-order thinking, challenging students to analyze themes, interpret data, evaluate arguments, and make evidence-based conclusions. The collection emphasizes cross-curricular literacy-connecting reading with science, social studies, and media awareness-to foster well-rounded comprehension and analytical skills.

Through close reading and structured written responses, students learn to identify main ideas, analyze figurative language, and distinguish fact from opinion or bias. The activities encourage empathy, ethical reasoning, and digital literacy while reinforcing academic writing and vocabulary growth. By interpreting complex texts and supporting their ideas with evidence, learners develop the confidence and critical insight necessary for advanced reading and academic success.

Detailed Descriptions Of These Worksheets

Bicycle Story
Students read an informational passage about the history of bicycles and determine its main idea and supporting details. They underline key evidence and summarize the central concept in their own words. This worksheet builds nonfiction comprehension, critical thinking, and summarization skills.

Merchant's Lesson
Learners read The Greedy Merchant, a short fable emphasizing honesty and greed, and identify its theme. They explain how events reveal the story's moral message, strengthening literary analysis and ethical reflection. The task develops understanding of theme and author intent through close reading.

Rainforest Chain
This activity explores cause and effect through a passage on deforestation in the Amazon. Students complete a graphic organizer linking environmental causes and consequences. It reinforces comprehension, organization, and science literacy while promoting awareness of global ecosystems.

Knights vs. Samurai
Students compare two passages describing European knights and Japanese samurai. Using a chart, they record similarities and differences in culture, values, and combat traditions. The task deepens comprehension of world history and develops compare-and-contrast analysis skills.

Canyon and Context
Learners read Lost in the Canyon and use context clues to define challenging words like formidable and ingenuity. They identify the sentences that clarify meaning and reflect on how word choice shapes tone. This vocabulary-based reading builds inferential comprehension and word-analysis strategies.

Science Fair Sequence
Students sequence events from a story about a student's volcano experiment. They number each event to demonstrate understanding of order, logic, and cause-effect relationships. This worksheet reinforces comprehension of narrative flow and supports organization in both reading and writing.

Mood, Actions, Setting
After reading The Cave Adventure, students analyze how the setting influences characters' emotions and choices. They connect description, mood, and action to reveal how atmosphere shapes plot. The activity develops literary interpretation and emotional reasoning through close reading.

Poetic Storm
Learners study the poem The Thunderstorm to identify similes, metaphors, and personification. They highlight examples and explain their meanings, building appreciation for figurative language. This activity enhances interpretation, descriptive vocabulary, and understanding of poetic imagery.

Media Mix-Up
Students read an informational passage about social media and determine which statements are facts and which are opinions. By labeling each as "F" or "O," they strengthen analytical reasoning and media literacy. The worksheet teaches students how to evaluate information sources objectively.

Spot the Bias
In this opinion-reading exercise, learners analyze an article about school uniforms to identify bias and author perspective. They find examples of emotional language and discuss the author's stance. The task builds critical reading, comprehension, and evaluative thinking skills.

Species in Danger
Students examine a passage and chart about endangered species, including pandas and sea turtles. They interpret textual and data-based evidence to answer comprehension questions. The activity connects reading and science, teaching data interpretation, environmental awareness, and textual analysis.

Friendship Test
In The Spelling Bee Secret, students analyze a moral story about honesty and friendship. They write a paragraph explaining the lesson, using text evidence to support their reasoning. This worksheet builds theme identification, inference, and empathy through character-based reflection.