Make Connections: Game Day

Read about a rained-out game day in this upper elementary reading worksheet! Siblings Lauren and Henry are waiting to see if their baseball game will get rained out. While Lauren is anxious and wants to play, Henry is content to stay home and read a comic book. After reading the passage, students will make a personal connection to the text, then answer three comprehension questions about the events of the passage.

By making connections and drawing inferences, students are prompted to analyze the text and think critically about the characters, events, and setting. Learners can focus on word choice and dialogue to explain characters’ behaviors and emotions, skills that will help strengthen comprehension and lay the groundwork for more in-depth literary analysis later on.

Check out more fiction passages with Making Inferences: The Campfire Mystery and Reading Fiction: The Dog Ate My Homework.