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

Get your third grader in the habit of reading deeper by encouraging him to think about what's going on in this short story and why.

Folktales are a great way to get your child into reading, and to help them consider moral values as well!

Learners will practice distinguishing fact from opinion in this literacy worksheet.

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

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

Your young historian can step back in time and read about an important battle that helped to end the American Revolution.

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.

Use this high-interest text with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject of the Titanic as they establish their own points of view.

America gets its name from Amerigo Vespucci. Kids will learn about this important historical figure with this fun worksheet.

This comprehensive exercise will introduce your students to twelve elements of poetry and six types of poems.

Get in the spooky spirit of Halloween with our vocab-packed copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

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

Have your third grader practice their reading fluency with this passage about Autumn.

This worksheet will help your child organize the details needed to write about a book they've read!

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

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

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.

Children follow along the incredible life story of Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery to rescue hundreds of other enslaved people.

Is your child just learning how to cook? Help her learn the fundamentals of kitchen safety with this cheat-sheet.

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Get to know pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

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.

Analyze the impact an author’s words can have on the meaning and tone of a text with this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

Get familiar with some types of poetry in this worksheet that covers different poetry structures.

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

This worksheet gives your students practice reading and analyzing informational text to explain the author’s claim and supporting reasons.