Riding the Bus Reading Comprehension Worksheet

The narrative places a child at the arrival of a large, noisy school bus and describes nervous observations of the driver, steps, seats, and unfamiliar faces. Spotting a friend and sitting together changes the experience from frightening to manageable and enjoyable. Five multiple-choice questions examine the activity, initial feeling, prior experience, familiar person, and final attitude. Page three repeats the questions without a direct answer-key label or visible completion, so no key is claimed.
Year levels
Years 1–3
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Updated Aug 14, 2021

Subject
Back To School, Holidays, Holiday & Seasonal, Reading, English
Topic
Reading Comprehension
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Australian Curriculum content descriptions
AC9E2LY05 — use comprehension strategies such as visualising

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This Riding the Bus Reading Comprehension Worksheet is a great way for students to build their reading comprehension skills. The poem is relatable and encourages students to think about their own experiences riding the bus.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Trace a character’s emotional change across an unfamiliar experience

  • Recall explicit setting, relationship, and sequence details

Teaching tips

  • Make a before-and-after feelings chart and identify the event that causes the emotional shift.

Skills covered

  • Character inference — Connect events with changing feelings

  • Reading recall — Retrieve stated experience details

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Australian Curriculum (Version 9.0)

Australian Curriculum content descriptions

Australian Curriculum content descriptions

  • AC9E2LY05 — use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning

Core concepts

  • First bus ride

  • Emotional change

  • Peer reassurance

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