Reading Comprehension: The Little Garden

This reading comprehension worksheet features The Little Garden, an original story about patience. In spring, Nora plants three seeds in a pot on the balcony, waters them a little every day, and sets the pot in the sun. First one tiny leaf appears; after two weeks, three small plants — and Nora is proud, because tomatoes are on the way. The child reads the story, then circles the best answer to each of the three questions beneath it.

This story runs on numbers and time, so its questions do too. How many seeds — three, not two, not five — rewards the reader who holds an exact quantity in mind rather than a vague 'some'. What does Nora do every day tests whether the child separates the repeated action, the watering, from one-time events around it. And what will grow leads to the payoff the story saves for its final word: tomatoes. Reading a sequence — plant, tend, sprout, wait, harvest — and keeping its details in order is precisely the skill children need for science texts and instructions later on, and a garden story is the friendliest possible place to practice it.

The PDF prints free, and a windowsill bean in a cup makes an irresistible follow-up experiment. From the same story collection, The Birthday Surprise offers another tale of patient practice paying off, while The Red Kite trades the quiet balcony for a gusty park.