"Helping Mom" reading comprehension worksheet with a story, illustrations, and inference questions for students.

Let’s go step by step to solve each question based on the story “Helping Mom”.

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Question 1: What detail do you learn from the illustration that isn’t in the text?
Options:
a. He is friends with the bus driver.
b. He has a kind, concerned smile.

→ The text says the bus driver smiled and said, “I’m sure you will think of something.” But it doesn’t describe *how* he smiled — like “kind” or “concerned”.
→ The illustration (the drawing) shows the bus driver’s face — we can see his expression. So if the drawing shows him smiling kindly or looking concerned, that’s a detail only in the picture.
→ Option a (“friends with the bus driver”) is not shown in the text OR the illustration — there’s no evidence they’re friends.
→ So the correct answer is b, because the illustration gives us visual info about his facial expression that the text doesn’t describe.

✔ Answer for Q1: b

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Question 2: What was Quinn’s problem in the story?
Options:
a. His house was a mess.
b. He wanted to help his mom but didn’t know how.

→ Let’s read the text:
> “My mom is taking night classes and she’s tired. I want to help, but I don’t know how,” Quinn said.

That’s Quinn stating his own problem directly.
The messy house is what he sees AFTER school — that’s part of the solution, not the original problem.
His real problem at the start is wanting to help but not knowing how.

✔ Answer for Q2: b

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Question 3: What detail do you learn from the text that isn’t in the illustration?
Options:
a. He tidied and cleaned the whole house.
b. He has brown hair.

→ Look at the illustration: It shows Quinn standing in a kitchen. We can see his hair color — it looks dark, maybe brown? But actually, since this is a black-and-white worksheet, we can’t be 100% sure of hair color from the drawing. However, the key point is:
→ The TEXT says: “He tidied and cleaned the whole house.” That action is described in words — but the illustration only shows him standing in the kitchen before cleaning. There’s no picture of him cleaning or the clean house.
→ So the detail “he tidied and cleaned the whole house” is ONLY in the text — not shown in any illustration.
→ Hair color might be visible in the drawing (even in B&W, shading implies color), so it’s not clearly “only in the text”.

But wait — let’s double-check:
The question asks: “What detail do you learn from the TEXT that isn’t in the ILLUSTRATION?”

Option a: “He tidied and cleaned the whole house.” → This happens AFTER the scene in the illustration. The illustration shows him BEFORE cleaning. So yes — this detail is only in the text.

Option b: “He has brown hair.” → In the illustration, even though it’s black and white, his hair is shaded darker than his skin — which typically means brown or black hair in such drawings. So this detail IS in the illustration (visually implied). Therefore, it’s NOT a detail that’s ONLY in the text.

So the best answer is a — because the act of cleaning the whole house is described in the text but not pictured anywhere.

✔ Answer for Q3: a

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Final Answer:
Q1: b
Q2: b
Q3: a