Reading Comprehension- The Witches

This document provides quick reading comprehension questions to ask your student/child that relates to the book The Witches by Roald Dahl. The ISBN13 of this book is 0141301104. If you have any questions, feel free to message! There are 121 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: A Note About Witches (Pg. 7-11)

1. What do real witches look like?

Ordinary clothes and ordinary people with ordinary jobs not hats and broomsticks

1. What do real witches hate?
   Children

2. What is the motto of all witches?

To squish one child a week and make them disappear

1. What never happens to witches?

They never get caught making a child disappear

Chapter 2: My Grandmother (Pg. 12-23)

1. What country did the first witches come from?

Norway