Q and A Matching

This targeted reading comprehension worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen close reading, comparison, and evidence-location skills by working with multiple short passages. Students read four brief narratives, then match each comprehension question to the passage it belongs to by identifying which text includes the relevant event, action, theme, or outcome.

Learning Goals

• Reading Comprehension (Grades 4-6): Understand key ideas and events across multiple passages.
• Locating Evidence Efficiently: Determine where specific information appears in a text set.
• Distinguishing Relevant Details: Match questions to passages based on accomplishments, changes, or responses.
• Multi-Passage Reasoning: Compare and contrast texts to make accurate matches.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to align with upper elementary ELA standards.
• Strong Test-Prep Practice: Mirrors standardized tasks that require navigating multiple texts.
• Encourages Careful Reading: Prevents guessing by requiring precise text-question alignment.
• Flexible Classroom Use: Ideal for literacy centers, guided reading, homework, or assessment.

This printable worksheet helps students build confidence with multi-text comprehension by practicing how to locate and connect questions to the correct passage. By analyzing several narratives at once, learners strengthen attention to detail, evidence recognition, and critical thinking-skills essential for advanced reading tasks and assessments.

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