English Comprehension Skills Activity 3: Read the following story and fill in the paragraphs given at the end of the story. Hit the ‘Check Answers’ button to correct your answers in the end.
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English Comprehension Skills Activity 3 – A Mountain and a Mouse
This lesson helps to improve the child’s English comprehension skills. How much of what you read do you actually understand? The reading ability to read text, process it, and understand its meaning or the act of understanding what you are reading is called reading comprehension. Each reading passage of our English comprehension skills worksheets, is followed by exercises which you can focus on recalling information directly from the text. Grow your reading comprehension skills and English writing answers skills with our reading comprehension skills worksheets.
A Mountain and a Mouse
Once there was a huge mountain where people lived at the foot of it. One day the mountain made a teribble noise, thundering and roaring, and the people were afraid, wondering what terrible monster was about to emerge.
When at last the mountain opened to reveal the cause of all the roaring, there appeared not a terrible monster, as they had feared, but a tiny, ridiculous mouse.
Moral: An awful fuss is often made about nothing.
Now, fill in the blanks with words taken from the story.
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