Printable Who, What, When, Where, Why (Read-Aloud) Worksheets
Printable who, what, when, where, why (read-aloud) worksheets for kindergarten and 1st grade, with an answer key on every sheet. The sets below cover 1 skill, so you can start where your child actually is. Available as visual guides.
Targeted Practice by Skill
About Who, What, When, Where, Why (Read-Aloud)
What this skill is
This read-aloud version of who, what, when, where, why practice is built for a child who can listen and understand a story before they can read one. You read the passage aloud, then your child answers by pointing to a picture rather than writing a word, so the sheet checks listening comprehension instead of reading ability.
When children learn it
Answering who and what questions about a read-aloud story starts in kindergarten, ahead of independent reading, and lines up with Common Core standard RL.K.1 for asking and answering questions about key details with prompting and support.
Teaching Tips
- Read the passage twice before asking the question.
- Point to each picture option and read it aloud before your child chooses.
Common Mistakes
- Picking the picture that looks most exciting instead of the one the story actually names.
- Answering from a guess about what usually happens in a story rather than what this one says.