Grade 6 Reading Comprehension

Free grade 6 reading comprehension worksheets to help your students in English. Students in grade 6 should have a good understanding of a number of reading comprehension strategies. They should be able to make inferences on tricky vocabulary, which helps them comprehend texts with more confidence. These short stories have some challenging vocabulary, but nothing your students can’t handle. Encourage them to read the title and make predictions, to summarise the text when complete, to identify the main idea, and to make inferences about characters within the stories. All of this can be done verbally or written. These reading comprehension worksheets are fiction, non-fiction and fictional news articles. Click on the images below to download the grade 6 reading comprehension texts. 

Fiction

Non-Fiction

News Articles

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