The Perfect Title

This engaging reading comprehension worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen their ability to identify main ideas, analyze tone, and evaluate how titles reflect meaning. After reading short narrative passages, students choose the most accurate title from four options by considering key details, theme, and overall message.

Learning Goals

• Determining Main Idea (Grades 4-6): Identify what each passage is mostly about.
• Title Selection & Summarization: Choose a title that best captures the central idea without focusing on minor details.
• Narrative Analysis: Consider tone, mood, and message when evaluating title options.
• Critical Thinking: Compare multiple choices and justify the best fit based on evidence from the text.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to align with upper elementary ELA standards.
• Close Reading Practice: Encourages careful attention to details and overall meaning.
• Assessment-Ready Format: Multiple-choice structure supports test-taking skills.
• Flexible Classroom Use: Ideal for literacy centers, guided reading, homework, or assessment.

This printable worksheet helps students understand how titles guide reader expectations and signal meaning. By practicing best-fit title selection, learners strengthen summarizing skills, judgment, and comprehension of narrative text. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this resource provides meaningful practice with main idea identification, title analysis, and thoughtful evaluation of textual relevance.

This worksheet is part of our matching choices reading passages worksheets collection.