The Scruffy Puppy

This worksheet is designed for students in Grades 2 and 3 to strengthen reading comprehension while reinforcing phonics skills through authentic text. By reading a short narrative rich in /scr/ blend words, learners practice vocabulary in context, phonics recognition, fluency, inferencing, and understanding of character actions and story events.

Skills Reinforced

• Reading Comprehension (Gr. 2-3): Answer questions that assess understanding of key details, events, and character actions.
• Vocabulary in Context: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar or blend-rich words using surrounding text clues.
• Phonics & Word Recognition: Identify and recognize /scr/ blend words such as scruffy, scrubbed, scream, and scraps within connected text.
• Character & Plot Understanding: Analyze how characters respond to events and how actions move the story forward.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to align with elementary reading and phonics standards.
• Integrated Skill Practice: Combines phonics review with comprehension and vocabulary development.
• Authentic Reading Experience: Uses a meaningful story to reinforce decoding skills naturally.
• Flexible Use: Ideal for guided reading, independent work, small groups, assessment practice, homework, or homeschool instruction.

This reading comprehension worksheet helps students apply phonics knowledge within a real story, strengthening both decoding and understanding. By engaging with /scr/ blend words in context, learners build reading fluency, vocabulary awareness, and confidence with narrative text. Whether used in the classroom or at home, this printable provides meaningful, no-prep practice that supports balanced literacy development.

This worksheet is part of our Phonics SCR Consonant Blends collection.