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English texts for beginners to practice reading and comprehension online and for free. Practicing your comprehension of written English will both improve your vocabulary and understanding of grammar and word order.
Passage 1: Too many parents these days can’t say no. As a result, they find themselves raising ‘children’ who respond greedily to the advertisements aimed right at them. Even getting what they want doesn’t satisfy some kids; they only want more.
In competitive exams, English comprehension passages questions are generally asked in two main categories: story-based and fact-based passages, such as editorials. Each type poses its unique challenges and requires different strategies to tackle effectively.
In these reading comprehension worksheets, students are asked questions about information they have read about a specific topic. Each passage reads similar to a newspaper of journal article, and provides interesting information about some aspect of history, nature, mechanics, science, art, and more.
Below are reading comprehension passages grouped into collections we call reading sets. Click on each to view passages and related comprehension questions and answers that you can download and print!
This packet contains 30 passages. Each simple passage has three sentences to check comprehension. WHY COMPREHENSION? Reading comprehension means understanding the texts we read or hear. Literal comprehension involves finding the answers that are explicitly in the text, and usually start with who, what, where, when, or how.
