Extended Reading Comprehension: The Boatbuilders of Fiji

Expand your readers' knowledge of world folklore with this unique and engaging reading comprehension worksheet! In Extended Reading Comprehension: The Boatbuilders of Fiji, students will explore a traditional myth from the islands of Fiji about how the Matai learned to build canoes. Designed for a seventh-grade literacy curriculum, this worksheet features two pages of reading followed by two pages of comprehension questions that will give learners practice identifying the theme, analyzing figurative language, and using text evidence to support inferences.