Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

This cause and effect worksheet opens your child up to improved critical thinking abilities. Use this cause and effect worksheet to focus on story structure.

Learn about the USA's three branches of government and where each one works.

Children are introduced to the life and accomplishments of aeronautics pioneer Amelia Earhart in this fascinating worksheet.

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

With this Have Fun Reading Choice Board, budding bookworms can choose from a variety of engaging reading-based activities, from reading in a cozy blanket fort to drawing or acting out their favorite part of a story.

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device!

Help your child read deeper into a story by having him practice making inferences about what happened.

Here is a fresh and fruity way to learn a bit of life science. Sit down with your little one and teach them all the different parts of an apple!

In Aesop's classic fable, a tortoise and a hare race — but the winner may surprise you!

Get to know the White House and the U.S. Capitol in this social studies matching worksheet!

This nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet is a fun, approachable way for students to practice identifying key ideas from nonfiction texts.

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Introduce second and third graders to W.E.B. Du Bois, writer, sociologist, and civil rights advocate, with this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Children use their logic skills to look at the images and decide which of two statements describes each one best in this second grade literacy worksheet.

Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.

Is your child just learning how to cook? Help her learn the fundamentals of kitchen safety with this cheat-sheet.

Children read the First Amendment, then complete a simple word scramble puzzle and answer reading comprehension questions.

Practice those reading skills with the story of "The Three Little Pigs"! This classic tale provides a great starter for reading comprehension.

If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

Beginning readers will love this short story by Rudyard Kipling, all about how the animals were first domesticated.

Take an adventure through the woods with this "Little Red Riding Hood" story, fit for young readers.

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

Learn about facts vs. opinions in this reading comprehension worksheet. Kids will read two sets of text and decide which is fact and which is opinion.

As your students hunt for various text features, they’ll learn that these features provide important information about the text they’re reading!