Curiosity Passage

This open-ended reading comprehension worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen interpretive thinking, evidence-based reasoning, and written expression through a rich narrative about a hidden garden. After reading the story, students respond to thoughtfully crafted questions in complete sentences, requiring them to infer character motivations, analyze changes in the setting, and explain ideas using specific details from the text.

Learning Goals

• Reading Comprehension (Grades 4-6): Understand key events, characters, and changes within the story.
• Inferential Thinking: Interpret character motivations and implied meanings beyond what is stated directly.
• Citing Textual Evidence: Support explanations with details and examples from the passage.
• Written Response to Text: Write clear, complete sentences that explain thinking thoroughly.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to align with upper elementary ELA comprehension standards.
• Open-Ended Question Format: Encourages deeper thinking and discourages guessing.
• Builds Writing Stamina: Helps students practice organizing and expressing ideas clearly in writing.
• Flexible Classroom Use: Ideal for guided reading, literacy centers, homework, or assessment.

This printable worksheet helps students become more thoughtful readers by requiring them to explain why characters act as they do and how the story changes over time. By responding in writing with evidence, learners strengthen comprehension, inference skills, and confidence in expressing ideas clearly. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this resource provides meaningful practice with textual analysis, written responses, and deeper engagement with narrative text.

This worksheet is part of our open-ended questions reading passages worksheets collection.