Attic Mystery

This engaging worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 build strong reading comprehension skills by analyzing narrative structure, identifying key story elements, and organizing events using a clear plot framework. Through close reading, sequencing, cause-and-effect reasoning, and text evidence analysis, students break down a short fictional story to better understand how plots are constructed and how events connect.

Learning Goals

• Plot Structure Understanding (Grades 4-6): Identify and explain exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution within a narrative.
• Reading Comprehension Skills: Analyze story details, character actions, and key events to determine their role in the plot.
• Text Evidence Usage: Support answers with specific examples and details from the passage.
• Sequencing & Cause-and-Effect: Organize events logically and explain how one event leads to another.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators with upper elementary literacy standards in mind.
• Flexible Use: Ideal for whole-group lessons, independent practice, homework, test prep, or literacy centers.
• Skill-Focused Format: Clear directions and structured sections support struggling readers while still challenging advanced learners.
• Low-Prep Solution: Print-and-go design saves planning time for teachers and homeschool parents.

This printable reading worksheet helps students strengthen narrative analysis, plot comprehension, sequencing, and evidence-based reasoning skills. By working through each stage of the plot, learners gain confidence in understanding how stories are built and how events relate to one another. Whether used in a classroom setting or for homeschool instruction, this resource provides meaningful practice with fiction reading, story structure, and critical thinking skills.

This worksheet is part of our reading fiction texts worksheets collection.