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6th Grade Comprehension Exercises Worksheets

Ages 11-12 · 9 sub-topics · Free previews · Print-ready PDFs

Reading comprehension exercises practice one reading skill at a time on short texts, scenes or pairs of passages. There are 37 worksheets for 6th grade here, each with an answer key. Two Views on Zoos pairs two texts, How Authors Show Their Purpose compares an ad, an article and a story about sea turtles, and Read an Article and a Bar Graph Together joins a text with a graph. The sheets practice RI.6.3 through RI.6.9, RL.6.4, RL.6.5, RL.6.9, L.6.5.A and L.6.5.C.

Written by Adi Ackerman, Head Teacher

Comprehension Exercises▼

Frequently Asked Questions

They cover nine skills: paired texts, author's purpose, text structure, word choice and tone, fact versus opinion, claims and evidence, sequencing, reading text with graphics and personification. Each skill has its own group of 2 to 11 sheets, so you can drill one skill at a time.

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