Burning Questions

This structured reading comprehension worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen historical understanding, evidence-based reasoning, and strategic reading skills using the QAR (Question-Answer Relationship) framework. After reading an informational passage about the Great Fire of London, students match comprehension questions to their correct answers and then classify each question by QAR type, deepening awareness of how different questions require different thinking strategies.

Learning Goals

• QAR Type Recognition (Grades 4-6): Identify Right There, Think and Search, Author and Me, and On My Own questions.
• Matching Questions to Evidence: Determine where answers come from within the text or beyond it.
• Literal vs. Inferential Thinking: Distinguish between questions answered directly and those requiring synthesis or interpretation.
• Historical Text Comprehension: Analyze a nonfiction passage to understand key events and details.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to align with upper elementary ELA and history standards.
• Dual-Skill Practice: Combines answer matching with QAR classification for deeper comprehension.
• Encourages Precision: Reinforces careful reading and clear justification of answers.
• Flexible Classroom Use: Ideal for guided reading, history units, literacy centers, homework, or assessment.

This printable worksheet helps students become more accurate and confident readers by connecting comprehension questions to both answers and strategies. By analyzing QAR types within a historical context, learners strengthen critical thinking, evidence-based reasoning, and understanding of informational texts. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this resource provides meaningful practice with QAR strategies, historical reading, and thoughtful question analysis.

This worksheet is part of our QAR (question-answer relationships) worksheets collection.