Fictional Short Story Comprehension

10 stories, each with 5 questions

Bethany’s chore was to feed her bunnies. She went outside to their cages with the food her mother gave her. She noticed the door to their cage was already open. She worried a fox stole her bunnies. She counted the bunnies and one was missing. As she turned around to go tell her mother about what happened, one light grey fluffy bunny hopped up next to her. The missing bunny came back home!

1. What was Bethany’s chore?

2. Who gave her the food?

3. What did she see when she walked up to the cage?

4. What animal did she think maybe stole her bunny?

5. How did the story end?

Scott so excited to go on his first trip. His father told him that they would be driving for 20 hours to get all the way to the beach. Scott had to pack sunscreen and sunglasses since the weather in Florida is always sunny. Once they got to the beach in Florida they would be meeting up with his cousins who Scott had not seen in 2 years. He was excited to go swimming and build sand castles with all his cousins.

1. Where was Scott going on his trip?

2. How long was the drive?

3. Who was Scott and his family meet up with at the beach?

4. What two things did Scott have to pack?

5. How many years had it been since Scott saw his cousins?

Randy spent all morning building his spaceship from an old box and now it was almost time for blast off. Randy was heading to space to explore the moon. His mission was to bring home dirt from the moon so the 5 scientists could study it. Randy was nervous for his trip because he had never been to space before. He hugged his mother goodbye and said he would be back once he had collected the dirt.

1. What did Randy build his spaceship from?

2. Where was he going in space?

3. What did he need to collect from the moon?

4. Who did he hug goodbye before he left?

5. How did he feel about going to space for the first time?

Brianna woke up very excited. Today was her birthday. Her grandmother promised to take her to the zoo on her birthday. They were gong to go to the zoo after lunch. She was most excited to see the Zebras and the penguins. After she ate all her pizza and cake, somebody knocked on the door. Brianna jumped out of her chair and put on her shows as fast as she could, she was so excited.

1. Why was Brianna excited when she woke up?

2. Where was Brianna going to go on her birthday?

3. What two animals is she most excited to see?

4. Who do you think knocked on the door?

5. What did Brianna eat for lunch?

Zoe really wanted a new bike. When she asked her dad to buy her one, he told her she needed to buy it herself. Zoe came up with the idea of starting a dog walking business. She made fliers and put them in all her neighbors mailboxes. Her flier said she would walk any nice dog for 15 minutes for only $2. Her first client was poodle. After only 5 weeks, Zoe made enough money to buy the new bike.

1. What did Zoe want to buy?

2. What did her dad tell her to do if she wanted thee bike ?

3. Who was Zoe’s first client?

4. How long did Zoe walk each dog for?

5. How long did it take to make enough money to buy the bike?

Thomas and Timothy are moving to California. They are both nervous and excited to go to a new school. Thomas and Timothy will share a bedroom at their new house. Their dad told them if they didn’t fight at all when moving they could paint their new room however they wanted. The brothers want to paint their new room red and decorate it with race cars. They are going to try very hard to get along during the long plane ride to their new house.

1. How do the boys feel about going to a new school?

2. What do they have to do to paint their room the color they want?

3. What color did they want to paint their new room?

4. Where are Thomas and Timothy moving to?

5. How are they getting to their new house?

One morning, Trevor woke up to the sound of birds in the bush outside his window. He opened up his curtains and saw a bluejay’s nest in the bush. The nest had 3 small eggs in it. Trevor decided to put a bird feeder close to the tree outside. After 2 weeks, he woke up to see that the eggs had hatched and 3 baby birds were in the nest. His favorite part of bird watching was watching the little babies learn to fly.

1. What did Trevor hear one morning?

2. What did Trevor put close to the tree?

3. How many weeks did Trevor wait for the eggs to hatch?

4. What was Timothy’s favorite part of bird watching?

5. Where was the birds nest?

Ms. Thompson’s 5th grade class was putting on a play at Christmas. They were going to have to sing 7 songs and each student had to memorize lines. Carter was nervous because he had to memorize the most lines in the whole class. He practiced every night at home. He had to act like a snowman and at the end of the play he was going to melt away.

1. Where did Carter practice his lines?

2. Why was Carter nervous?

3. What grade was Carter in?

4. What was going to happen to his character at the end of the play?

5. How many songs was the class going to sing?

Emma and her friends met every Friday to play at the park. The only days they did not meet was when it was raining. They took turns going across the monkey bars and race down the slide. Last Friday though, Emma fell off the monkey bars and she broke her arm. She had to go to the doctor and get a cast. Her doctor told her she would have to wear the cast for 2 weeks. Emma was sad she could not play at the park with her friends until she got her cast off.

1. When did Emma and her friends play at the park?

2. What happened to Emma when she fell off the monkey bars?

3. What did the friends like to race on?

4. How long would Emma have to wear her cast?

5. Why was Emma sad?

Bobby had to catch a bug for his science project. Bobby got a large jar and put holes in the lid so that the bug could breathe. He put grass and sticks in his jar so that the bug would feel at home. He caught a caterpillar. The next morning he looked in the jar and the caterpillar was gone. The only thing he could see in the jar was a funny looking sac hanging from one of the sticks. Bobby’s teacher told him his caterpillar did not escape but that the caterpillar was working on turning into a butterfly.

1. What did Bobby put in the jar to make the bug feel at home?

2. Why did he put holes in the lid?

3. Why did Bobby have to catch a bug?

4. What did Bobby think happened to his caterpillar?

5. What did Bobby see in his jar the next morning?

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