Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Learn all about the history of candles with this two-page nonfiction reading worksheet!

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

Here is a fresh and fruity way to learn a bit of life science. Sit down with your little one and teach them all the different parts of an apple!

Students read an original two-page story and answer questions to boost essential reading comprehension skills.

Dive into the sea life of Monterey, California, with this upper elementary reading comprehension worksheet!

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Practice analyzing point of view and perspective with this relatable excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Young readers practice identifying the theme of a story in this thoughtful fable about two friends who find gold in the forest.

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

Young readers will discover how to identify the point of view of a story or text in this literacy worksheet.

With this easy-to-use flowchart, your students will learn how to find the theme of a fictional story.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of jazz music, and the history of African-Americans in pop music.

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Build comprehension skills with this reading page on cause and effect for kids.

Your students will read two short stories, then compare and contrast the characters, problems, solutions, and themes with the help of a graphic organizer.

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device!

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.

Help young readers make inferences using context clues with this worksheet.

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

In this Reader's Theater worksheet, students read a script, then answer the reading comprehension questions that follow.

Get to know the White House and the U.S. Capitol in this social studies matching worksheet!

Introduce students to the concept of using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.