“The Secret Cave” – Reading Comprehension Exercise

Topic: Adventure
Text Type: Short Story
Grade Level: Junior Grades
Tense: Simple Past

Description:
“The Secret Cave” is a reading comprehension activity designed for junior readers who enjoy adventure stories. It is written in the simple past tense, helping students recognize and use past-tense verbs in context.

The comprehension questions guide students to practice locating specific information, making inferences about events and characters, guessing word meanings from context, and making predictions.

This resource comes with two versions:

• Student Version: The short story and questions only.
• Answer Version: The same text with highlighted evidence lines, model answers, and question intent notes to support teaching and feedback.