Teamwork Passage

This worksheet helps students in Grades 3, 4, and 5 strengthen reading comprehension and social-emotional understanding through a short nonfiction passage about classroom teamwork. Students read about a group struggling to complete a poster until they begin sharing tasks and working together, then answer multiple-choice questions that focus on main idea, key details, inference, and cause-and-effect relationships.

Learning Goals

• Reading Comprehension (Grades 3-5) – Understand a nonfiction passage by identifying important information and outcomes.
• Main Idea & Supporting Details – Determine the central message and recognize details that support it.
• Cause-and-Effect Reasoning – Explain how teamwork strategies lead to improved results.
• Teamwork Awareness – Recognize why sharing tasks and cooperating improves group work.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed to align with ELA and SEL standards.
• Multiple-Choice Questions – Builds assessment readiness and careful reading habits.
• Clear Real-Life Example – Uses a relatable classroom situation to model collaboration.
• Flexible Use – Suitable for reading lessons, small groups, test practice, or homeschool instruction.

This printable worksheet helps students connect reading comprehension skills with real-world teamwork concepts. By analyzing how collaboration changes outcomes in the passage, learners strengthen inference skills, understand cause and effect, and deepen their appreciation for shared responsibility. Ideal for classroom and homeschool settings, this activity supports literacy development, test-taking confidence, and positive group-work habits.

This worksheet is part of our teamwork and cooperation worksheet collection.