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Short Stories for Class 1 with Questions

Reading comprehension lesson 2: Tiny stories · Set 734 · 12 questions
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Reading tip (Who did what?): Find who is in the story. Find what happened and where. Words like “he”, “she” and “it” point back to someone or something named before.

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  1. 1.Sara had five balloons. One balloon went pop! Now she had four balloons.

    How many balloons did she have at the end?     (a) four (b) three (c) one (d) five
  2. 2.Neel saw a big black cloud. He ran home fast. Then it began to rain.

    What colour was the cloud?     (a) black (b) blue (c) grey (d) white
  3. 3.Zoya made a paper boat. She put it in the rain water. The boat sailed away.

    True or false: Zoya made a paper boat.     (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Neel saw a big black cloud. He ran home fast. Then it began to rain.

    Which word is the opposite of “fast”?     (a) black (b) big (c) home (d) slow
  5. 5.Arjun could not find his cat. He called, “Moti, Moti!” The cat jumped out of a box.

    True or false: The cat jumped out of a bag.     (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Sara had five balloons. One balloon went pop! Now she had four balloons.

    How many balloons did Sara have at first?     (a) four (b) three (c) six (d) five
  7. 7.It was hot. Lata and Sam went to the shop. They got two cold orange ice lollies.

    How many ice lollies did they get?     (a) one (b) four (c) two (d) three
  8. 8.A puppy was hungry. Kiran gave it some milk. The puppy wagged its tail.

    Why did Kiran give the puppy milk?     (a) it was hungry (b) it was cold (c) it was sad (d) it was dirty
  9. 9.Anu went to the zoo with Appa. She saw a tall giraffe. It ate leaves from a tree.

    What animal did she see?     (a) a lion (b) a giraffe (c) a monkey (d) an elephant
  10. 10.Zoya made a paper boat. She put it in the rain water. The boat sailed away.

    In “She put it in the rain water”, who is “She”?     (a) Riya (b) Amma (c) the boat (d) Zoya
  11. 11.Riya lost her pencil. She looked under the bed. The pencil was in her bag!

    Where was the pencil?     (a) on the desk (b) under the bed (c) in her bag (d) in her shoe
  12. 12.Tenzin built a tower of blocks. His little brother knocked it down. Tenzin laughed and built it again.

    Who knocked it down?     (a) his sister (b) his friend (c) his cat (d) his little brother

Answer key

  1. four
  2. black
  3. True
  4. slow
  5. False
  6. five
  7. two
  8. it was hungry
  9. a giraffe
  10. Zoya
  11. in her bag
  12. his little brother

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