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Decision-Making Reading Comprehension Passages — Grade 2

Grade 2 · Responsible Decision‑Making · Reading Comprehension

Kiriko chooses to cram her toys into the closet, not onto the shelves.

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Grade: 2
What you get: 10 passages at F&P levels K–M in ten text types34 pages
Type: Reading Comprehension
Use it: Print + digitaldigital = one link, no student logins
Competency: Responsible Decision‑Making

About this resource

Kiriko chooses to cram her toys into the closet, not onto the shelves. These free decision-making reading comprehension passages give Grade 2 readers ten texts at F&P levels K–M, one for each part of Responsible Decision-Making: careful, honest and fair choices, solving problems, owning mistakes, asking for guidance and acting for others. The full set is free with a free account (no card needed), and it builds SEL inside your literacy time.

What students practice

Telling the truth when a quick yes would be easier
Choosing the fair way when you are in charge
Knowing when a job needs a grown-up (what it is and isn’t)
Making a better choice next time
Deciding to do a job for your community
Answering multiple-choice and written-response questions about what they read

What’s inside

10passages at F&P levels K–M in ten text types, including a problem-and-solution story, a student profile and a school news feature

5multiple-choice questions per passage

2open-ended questions per passage that call for written answers

34pages

Answer key for the multiple-choice questions

A look inside

Stop, Think of Three, Try OneShows a simple way to solve a problem, using a pencil box lid that won’t close: stop, think of three different ideas, try the best one, and check whether it worked.

Did You Brush Your Teeth?Compares two ways Ngozi could answer when Grandpa asks if she brushed her teeth, which she forgot: saying yes, or telling the truth and brushing now.

Bryndis and the Wagon RidesBryndis, a second grader, gives wagon rides on the park path while her dad watches.

When the Box Says Ask a Grown-UpExplains what ask a grown-up means on a craft kit, recipe card or game box, with examples like scissors, the oven and plugging things in, and why stopping to ask is smart.

Our Class Plants Bulbs by the Park GateStudent reporters tell how their class weighed three ideas, voted to plant flower bulbs by the park entrance sign inside the fence with a parks worker, then checked what bloomed in spring.

How to use these decision-making reading passages in Grade 2

Small reading groups at levels K–M, working through the multiple-choice questions together

A short SEL lessonRead “The Closet That Wouldn’t Close” aloud and talk it through together

Independent practice or homework, checked later with the answer key

Written responseStudents answer the two open-ended questions after a passage such as “The Crumb That Called the Pigeons”

Grade fit

Passages run from about 195 to 218 words, so second graders can finish one in a single sitting, and the situations come straight from home, recess and the classroom. Levels climb from K to M across the set.

Digital version

With the interactive digital version, you share one link and students read each passage and answer the questions on any device, with no student logins. At the end they download an answer sheet to hand in.