Reading Comprehension Finding Text Evidence

Are you struggling to get your students to refer to the text when you’re working on comprehension? Help your beginning first graders build reading comprehension and text evidence skills with these engaging, easy-to-read fiction and nonfiction passages!

Students will read a short passage, answer comprehension questions, and go back into the text to find evidence that supports their answers.

Each passage is written with first-grade and second-grade readers in mind and includes simple vocabulary, engaging topics, and questions that encourage students to think about what they read.

What’s Included?

This resource includes:

• 20 original reading passages
• 10 fiction stories
• 10 nonfiction passages
• 100+ words per passage
• 3 comprehension questions per passage
• Questions that encourage students to use text evidence
• Stories with problems and solutions
• Primary-aged topics and vocabulary
• A mix of comprehension skills including:
  • Key details
  • Main idea
  • Sequencing
  • Problem and solution
  • Cause and effect
  • Character understanding
  • Text evidence

A Simple Routine for Primary Students

READ IT: Read the story carefully.

FIND IT: Go back to the text to find the answer. Underline it using the color-coded system.

PROVE IT:Use information from the passage to show how you know.

This simple routine helps students understand that good readers go back to the text when answering questions.