Fun reading comprehension worksheet about a squirrel competition between Bill and Jerry.

Let’s read the story carefully and figure out how many more acorns Jerry collected than Bill.

Step 1: Understand what happened.
- Bill and Jerry had a competition to see who could collect the most acorns.
- Bill climbed trees to get acorns from branches.
- Jerry stayed on the ground and picked up fallen acorns.
- At the end of the day, they counted their acorns.
- The story says: “Bill barely won. He had three more acorns than Jerry did.”

Wait — that means Bill had MORE acorns than Jerry? But the question is asking: “How many more acorns than Jerry did Bill have?”

Actually, let’s reread that sentence:
> “Bill barely won. He had three more acorns than Jerry did.”

So if Bill won, he must have had more acorns. And it says clearly: “He had three more acorns than Jerry did.” That means Bill = Jerry + 3.

But then the next part says:
> “They were both happy because they gathered a big amount of food...”

And then:
> “After working so hard, the two friends decided to take a nap...”

There’s no trick here — the story directly tells us the difference.

The key sentence is:
“He had three more acorns than Jerry did.”

“He” refers to Bill (since the previous sentence says “Bill barely won”).

So Bill had 3 more acorns than Jerry.

That’s the answer.

Final Answer:
3