French: Reading comprehension worksheets: La respiration

A French-language reading package pairs an informational text on human respiration with prediction, comprehension, connection, and critique activities, plus a full answer key.

Grades: Grades 3–5
File type: PDF
Preparation: Print ready

Updated Feb 21, 2024

Subject: French, Foreign Languages
Topic: Fiche De Lecture, Compréhension De Lecture
Resource types: Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
Preparation: Print ready

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About this resource

French: Reading Comprehension Worksheets - La respiration Dive into the French language with a reading comprehension resource perfect for educators in grades 3-5. This informative 17-page PDF focuses on the respiratory system, guiding students to read a text in French and answer reading comprehension questions. The worksheets scaffold the reading process, with sections on prediction strategies, accessing prior knowledge, developing reading strategies, answering questions, checking answers, making connections, critiquing the text, and reflecting on new knowledge gained. With a variety of ways to implement this versatile resource into instruction, from whole group to small group to individual assignments, this reading comprehension packet brings the French language to life for students.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Answer comprehension questions about a respiration informational text in complete French sentences (subject + verb + complement).
Use interrogative words (qui, où, quand, comment, pourquoi) to understand and respond to question prompts.
Make predictions about an informational text using its title, subtitles, and illustrations before reading.
Connect personal experience to a text's subject matter and critically evaluate the text's quality.

Teaching tips

Review the complete-sentence guide and interrogative-word chart before assigning the comprehension questions, since students are expected to answer in full French sentences.
Use the prediction and prior-knowledge pages before students read the informational text, and revisit them after reading during the transformation activity.
Check completed comprehension answers against the provided answer key, which models a full French sentence response for each of the 13 questions.

Skills covered

French reading comprehension — students answer 13 questions about the respiration text (e.g., the role of the diaphragm, how air travels from nose to lungs) in complete sentences.
Predictive and prior-knowledge reading strategies — students use text features to predict content and activate prior knowledge before reading.
Personal connection and text evaluation — students link the informational text to their own experience and rate/critique the text.
Question-formation vocabulary — students use French interrogative words (qui, où, quand, comment, pourquoi, combien) to frame and answer questions.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Are the comprehension questions answered with single words, or full sentences?

Full French sentences — the guide explicitly models the subject + verb + complement structure expected for every answer.

Does the package only cover the reading itself, or does it include activities before and after?

Both — prediction and prior-knowledge pages come before the text, and making connections, a text critique, and a reflection on new knowledge follow the comprehension questions.