Help your beginning reader practice answering simple comprehension questions with this free Who and Where Reading Comprehension Worksheet.
Children read a short passage about Nina swimming in a pool. They then use information from the passage to determine who swims fast, where Nina swims, and what else she does while swimming.
This simple printable provides focused reading comprehension practice without overwhelming beginning readers with a long passage.
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What This Worksheet Teaches
This worksheet gives children practice with several important early reading skills:
Identifying who a passage is about
Identifying where an action takes place
Answering Who and Where questions
Recalling actions from a short passage
Finding information stated directly in a text
Understanding the pronoun she
Reading short, complete sentences
Writing short comprehension answers
How To Use This Worksheet
Ask your child to read the three sentences carefully. If your child is still developing independent reading skills, read the passage together.
Next, have your child answer each question by looking back at the passage.
Encourage your child to find the sentence containing the answer rather than relying only on memory. This helps develop the important habit of using the text to support comprehension answers.
Children can answer orally first and then write their responses on the lines.
Why Practice Who and Where Questions?
Understanding question words helps children know what kind of information they need to find when reading.
A Who question asks the reader to identify a person, animal, or sometimes a group of people.
A Where question asks the reader to identify a place or location.
As children become comfortable answering these basic questions, they build a foundation for working with additional comprehension questions such as what, when, why, and how.
Skills Covered
Answering Who Questions
Children answer:
Who swims fast?
The passage directly states:
“Nina swims fast.”
This gives beginning readers a straightforward opportunity to connect the question with evidence in the text.
Answering Where Questions
Children answer:
Where does Nina swim?
The final sentence states:
“She swims in the pool.”
Children must understand that she refers to Nina and identify the pool as the location.
Identifying Actions
The passage tells children that Nina swims, kicks, and splashes.
Identifying these actions provides additional comprehension practice beyond simply identifying the character and setting.
Understanding Pronouns
The first sentence introduces Nina, while the following sentences use she.
Children therefore practice understanding that the pronoun she refers back to Nina.
Story Summary
Nina swims fast. She kicks and splashes while swimming, and she swims in the pool.
The questions ask children to identify Nina, the location where she swims, and an additional action described in the passage.
Learning Goals
After completing this worksheet, children should be able to:
✔ Identify who performs an action
✔ Identify where an action occurs
✔ Answer a basic Who question
✔ Answer a basic Where question
✔ Recall an additional story detail
✔ Connect a pronoun with the person it represents
✔ Locate answers directly within a short passage
Parent & Teacher Tips:
Before your child answers each question, ask:
“What kind of answer are we looking for?”
For a Who question, the child should look for a person, animal, or group.
For a Where question, the child should look for a place.
You can also have your child underline the part of the passage containing each answer. This reinforces the idea that comprehension answers should come from the text.
Extend the Learning
Find the Pronoun: Ask your child to circle the word she and tell you who it means.
Find the Place: Ask your child to point to the words that tell where Nina swims.
Find the Actions: Have your child identify all of Nina’s actions: swims, kicks, and splashes.
Act It Out: Have your child pretend to swim, kick, and splash while saying each action word.
Make a New Sentence: Ask your child to make another sentence about something Nina might do at the pool.
Questions To Ask Children:
Who is the story about?
Where does Nina swim?
What does Nina do?
Which word tells us how Nina swims?
Who does the word she mean?
Building Early Reading Comprehension
Early reading comprehension begins with helping children understand that reading is about more than simply saying the words on a page. Children also need to think about who the story is about, where it takes place, and what happens.
This worksheet gives beginning readers practice with those important skills using a short, easy-to-follow passage. Children read about Nina swimming in a pool and then answer questions using information found directly in the text.
Short passages like this allow young readers to focus on understanding what they read without becoming overwhelmed by too much text at once. Children can practice remembering important details while also learning to look back at the passage when they are unsure of an answer.
The repeated Who and Where question format helps children learn what common question words mean. A Who question asks them to look for a person or animal, while a Where question asks them to look for a place.
As children become more comfortable finding these details, they begin developing important reading habits that support more advanced comprehension skills, including identifying characters and settings, recalling key details, sequencing events, and answering questions about a text.
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