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

Young readers will refer to a passage from The Secret Garden to answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

Learners will practice identifying the problem and solution in texts in this reading comprehension worksheet.

This ELA-focused choice board is perfect for supporting independence and encouraging students to practice their reading skills, build reading fluency, and boost reading comprehension.

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

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

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

Help your students learn to analyze characters in literature with the help of this graphic organizer.

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.

Young readers and sports enthusiasts will have a ball practicing sequence of events in this biography of Jackie Robinson. 

Help students appreciate the information they can get from text features!

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

Before reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, use this pre-reading activity to get readers thinking about one of the major themes in the novel: stereotypes.

Introduce learners to the American advocate Dorothea Dix with this three-page informational reading comprehension worksheet.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Encourage thoughtful media consumption with this set of television show comprehension questions.

Introduce children to physicist Albert Einstein — and a bit of theoretical physics — with this mini biography.

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

Explore story sense with your young reader. First, read the astronaut's story. Then, let your imagination tell what will happen next!

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

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

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Test your child's reading comprehension with the story of "The Frog Prince"!

Facts about ostrich include that they are the largest birds in the world and that they can't fly, but that's not all. Learn all about this amazing bird!

Children will read an excerpt from Stevenson's book, then respond to a reading comprehension and a creative writing prompt.

This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point.

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

Build your students' emotional literacy with this handy emotion word bank! This resource provides students with visuals and a variety of emotion synonyms to increase their understanding of character traits in fictional text.

This worksheet teaches kids to look closely at the illustrations in fiction texts to help them comprehend the story.