Little Fox's Big Challenge Comprehension

2nd Grade ELAReading Comprehension3 pages

About this worksheet

The Little Fox's Big Challenge tells of Pip, a small red fox who wants the blackberries on the far side of a rushing river. He is scared of the fast water, but he hops across the flat rocks anyway. 2nd grade students answer four questions with details from the text: who and where, what Pip wanted, how he responded to his challenge, and the central message. The sheet covers Common Core RL.2.1, RL.2.2 and RL.2.3 across 3 pages, and model answers are given for the written questions.

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Curriculum objectives covered

RL.2.1

โ€œAsk and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.โ€

Questions 1 to 3 are who, what, where and how questions answered with details from the story.

RL.2.2

โ€œRecount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.โ€

Question 4 asks for the central message: being brave means trying even when you are scared.

RL.2.3

โ€œDescribe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.โ€

Question 3 asks how Pip responds to his challenge, taking a deep breath and hopping across the rocks.

What's inside this worksheet

Read the Story

A short story in one column with a picture of Pip on the riverbank. It closes with the lesson that being brave means trying your best even when you are scared.

Story Questions

Question 1 asks who the main character is and where he is at the start. Question 2 asks what Pip wanted and why he could not get it at first.

Character & Lesson

Question 3 asks how Pip responded to the challenge. Question 4 gives four choices for the central message, including "Foxes are very good swimmers." The answer is c.

How teachers use it

Guided reading

Read the story aloud once, then ask students to underline the sentence where Pip takes a deep breath. It answers question 3 and points to the lesson in question 4.

Talk about choice b

Choice b, "Never go near rivers because they are fast.", catches students who remember the danger and forget the ending. Ask them what Pip actually did.

Retell before writing

Have students retell the story aloud in three parts before they write. A student who can say the problem and the fix answers question 2 in a full sentence.

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