Sammy's Big Acorn Comprehension

1st Grade ELAReading Comprehension3 pages

About this worksheet

Sammy is a small brown squirrel who finds an acorn too heavy to move, until Penny the bird helps him push it to his tree. The 1st grade reading comprehension sheet prints this short story beside a picture, then asks three multiple-choice questions on the main character, the setting and Sammy's problem. A three-box retell for beginning, middle and end closes it. The 3 pages match Common Core RL.1.1, RL.1.2 and RL.1.3. An answers page gives the correct letter for each question.

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Curriculum objectives covered

RL.1.1

โ€œAsk and answer questions about key details in a text.โ€

Story Questions 1 to 3, each answered from a detail in the text.

RL.1.3

โ€œDescribe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.โ€

The three questions name the character (Sammy), the setting (the park) and the main event (the heavy nut).

RL.1.2

โ€œRetell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.โ€

The beginning, middle and end drawings, plus the last line of the story, which states the lesson.

What's inside this worksheet

Read the Story

A paragraph about Sammy, his oak tree in the park, the giant acorn and Penny. It ends with the lesson that things are easier when friends help each other.

Story Questions

Three questions with a, b and c choices: who the main character is, where the story happens, and what problem Sammy had ("The nut was too heavy").

Retell the Story

Three empty boxes for drawings of the beginning, the middle and the end.

Answers

Sammy the squirrel, the park, and the nut was too heavy.

How teachers use it

Read aloud first

Read the story aloud once before students read it alone. Stop after "the nut did not move" and let students predict what Sammy does next.

Say it, then draw it

Before the drawing boxes, have partners tell the story in three parts. Drawings come faster once students have said the order out loud.

Find the lesson

Its message sits in the last sentence of the story. Ask students to find it and say it in their own words.

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