Reading Comprehension- The Boxcar Children #1- The Boxcar Children

This document provides quick reading comprehension questions to ask your student/child that relates to the book The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Warner. The ISBN13 of this book is 9780807508527. If you have any questions, feel free to message! There are 58 questions in this document. The .zip file includes a student handout (without answers) and a separate document with the answers in red font.

To see what you’re going to get, I’ve provided the first 5 questions of the document below.

Chapter 1: The Four Hungry Children (Pg. 7-15)

1. Who was in front of the bakery?

4 Hungry Children

1. What did the four children buy from the bakery?

Loaves of Bread

1. What did they intend to do at the bakery?

Stay the night because their parents were dead, and they didn’t like their remaining grandparent

1. What did the children agree to do to sleep at the bakery for the night?

Wash dishes for them

1. What did the children hear the woman say?

That the 3 oldest children could stay but the youngest was too young to help here and that he needed to go to the childrens’ home