Preschool Reading Comprehension Worksheets

Reading comprehension is understanding what a text or picture is saying, not just decoding the words. For preschoolers, most of that understanding comes through listening and talking: hearing a sentence and picturing it, or looking at a scene and answering a question about what is happening. Practice like this at ages 3–5 builds the vocabulary and thinking that later independent reading depends on.

The 22 pages here take two approaches. On the read it, then draw it pages, a child reads a short sentence aloud (a grown-up can read it for a child who is not reading yet) and draws a picture that shows what it says. On the look and tell pages, a child looks at a scene such as a park, farm, beach or kitchen with a grown-up, answers a question out loud and draws the answer in a box. Answer keys are included.