Reading Comprehension: The Red Kite

This reading comprehension worksheet features the original short story The Red Kite. Mia takes her red kite with its long yellow tail to the park on a windy Saturday; it soars over the trees, and a watching boy says it looks like a little dragon. Under the story sit three multiple-choice questions — the child reads carefully, then circles the best answer to each one, checking back in the text whenever two choices both sound possible.

The questions on this page are chosen to train precise reading rather than lucky guessing. Two of them hunt small facts a skimming reader slides past — the tail is yellow, not red, and the flying happens in the park, not the garden — details planted exactly where careless eyes blur them. The third asks why the kite flies so high, which is a different kind of work entirely: the story never says 'because', so the child must connect the strong wind in one sentence to the soaring kite in the next. Spotting stated facts and linking cause to effect are the two foundation stones of comprehension, and this little story exercises both in under a hundred words.

The PDF prints free, and asking 'which words told you?' after each circled answer doubles the value of the page. Readers who enjoyed Mia's windy afternoon usually love The Lost Boot next — a story with a four-legged hero — while The Little Garden slows things down beautifully.