Video Games: Not Just for Fun

Level up and build reading comprehension skills with this reading activity! This worksheet explains how video games are not only fun, but they can be beneficial toward learning. Designed for fifth grade, this worksheet asks students to read the excerpt, then summarize the main message of the paragraph and provide three supporting ideas.

Understanding the gist of a paragraph is a sophisticated reading task. This exercise is a stepping stone for children learning how to draw conclusions and critically interpret articles, important for overall comprehension for when they move on to more advanced text.