Sight Words Reading Passages and Worksheets: Pre-Primer.

I have already published a blog post about my printable sight words flashcards that I use to teach my pre-school and elementary school students to read and write in English. Today I’d like to share a few reading comprehension passages and worksheets that I have designed to be used along with the cards for my English classes. Since my sight words cards are based on the Dolch word list, I use the same sight words for my reading passages and worksheets. The Dolch’s scale starts with the pre-primer level – a small group of words that kids can learn in kindergarten. So the first sight word reading passages and worksheets I’d like to share are based on this pre-primer vocabulary.

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Here are examples of simple pre-primer vocabulary texts that I read with kids who start learning English.

It is a bird. The bird is big and blue.
It is a bird. The bird is little and red.
Look! Can you see two funny birds?
The birds come here to play. The birds jump and run in the grass.
Can you help me make a home for the birds?

- Where can a little boy play?
- The boy can play here. You can find a big red ball and a yellow toy car for the boy.
- Where can a little girl play?
- The girl can play here. Here is a doll for the girl.
- Look, it is a big box of toys for the boy and the girl!

I see a yellow apple and a red apple.
The red apple is big.
The yellow apple is for me and the red apple is for you.

I did my best to make my reading comprehension worksheets appealing to little children. It helps me excite and expire young English learners and make them want to read more in this language. I hope my fellow EFL and ESL teachers will also find these reading comprehension passages and worksheets useful.

Printable Sight Words Reading Resources: Pre-Primer Level.

Reading Comprehension Worksheets: Drago the Dragonfly

This is another reading comprehension worksheet that belongs to my reading comprehension kit. The short reading passage is about a dragonfly named Drago:

Drago is a blue dragonfly. He has big transparent wings and loves to fly. He lives near a pond. His wings are strong, so Drago can fly very fast and far from his home. Drago has mosquitoes for dinner.

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Reading Comprehension Worksheets: Short Word Stories

I shared some of my animal-related reading comprehension worksheets on social networks, and my fellow EFL and ESL teachers found them rather interesting. So I’d like to demonstrate another type of reading comprehension passages that I use for my English classes.

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I love this trick when I ask early readers to read a relatively long and seemingly intimidating English text, and they suddenly realize they can easily read it and understand most of it. Their reaction is always very positive and they feel proud of their reading accomplishments. So I write these reading comprehension passages consisting only of short words (mostly three-letter words and a few four-letter words). I often use these passages with my elementary school students (first and second grade) as well as with older kids who struggle to learn English as a foreign language.

I have written six short-word reading comprehension passages so far. I call them short word stories. And I have recently decided to add some tasks and questions to the stories to turn simple texts into colorful printable worksheets that would be more appealing to elementary school children. Such reading comprehension worksheets definitely bring more fun to the classroom and encourage kids to further develop their English reading fluency.

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So I have designed some printable worksheets that incorporate the following reading comprehension passages:

• My Dad Is a Vet [78 words]
• My Dad and My Pal Are Eating a Pie [88 words] (I use this one to teach the present continuous tense)
• Can I Get a Pet? [88 words]
• A Van for My Big Dog [115 words]
• Can I Own a Van? [145 words]
• An Ant Bit My Toe [291 words] (this one is good for teaching different meanings of the verb “get”)

I’d like to share a few reading comprehension worksheets based on my short word stories. So here they are:

Reading comprehension passage "My Dad Is a Vet".

Reading Comprehension Worksheets: Daphne the Dolphin

Here is another reading comprehension worksheet that belongs to my large reading comprehension kit. This one features a dolphin named Daphne. The reading passage goes as follows:

Daphne is a dolphin. She lives in the ocean and she is very smart. Daphne and her friends love to jump in and out of the water! She likes to click, chirp and whistle when she is happy. Daphne eats a lot of small fish every day.

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Reading Comprehension Worksheets: Thomas the Cat

I begin publishing some of my printable reading comprehension worksheets dedicated to animals. I’d like to start with a comprehension passage about a black cat named Tom. The passage goes like this:

Tom is a black cat. He lives in a house. He drinks milk and eats cat food. His master gives him fish sometimes. After each meal he licks himself to clean his fur. Tom is a little cat, and his master calls him kitten. Tom loves to play with a ball of yarn. He pretends to see a rat, he runs to catch it. He meows when he is hungry and purrs when he feels happy. Tom is a happy cat and he purrs a lot.

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