Tiny Readers Shine: Unseen Passage Practice for Class 1 

This Class 1 worksheet includes five warm, child-friendly unseen passages designed to build essential reading, comprehension, and early grammar skills. With themes like Aanya’s happy day, a colourful fruit shop, a quiet reading corner, helping at home, and a peaceful terrace evening, young learners practise reading simple paragraphs and answering questions through fill-in-the-blanks, multiple-choice questions, one-word answers, one-line answers, and short paragraph responses. 

Why Unseen Passages Matter in Grammar? 

Unseen passages help young learners: 
1. Practise understanding new texts without prior knowledge. 
2. Develop vocabulary using everyday situations like home, school, and neighbourhood. 
3. Strengthen early comprehension skills through different question formats. 
4. Improve sentence formation and reading confidence. 

What’s Inside This Worksheet? 

This worksheet includes five unseen passages, each followed by child-friendly exercises such as fill-in-the-blanks, MCQs, one-word answers, one-line responses, and short answers. 

Passage 1 – A Day Filled with Smiles (Page 3) 
Aanya wakes up to birds, eats warm idlis, walks to school, meets her friend Kavya, enjoys reading time, shares fruit, colours in the evening, waters plants, and ends her day with a bedtime story. 

Passage 2 – Visit to a Bright Fruit Shop (Page 5) 
Raina visits a fruit shop with her father. She observes colourful fruits, checks oranges, smells strawberries, watches people buying fruits, and imagines making fruit salad. 

Passage 3 – The Quiet Reading Spot (Page 8) 
Samia enjoys the reading corner at school. She reads picture books, sits on a green cushion, listens to her teacher, returns books neatly, and remembers new words proudly. 

Passage 4 – Helping at Home (Page 11) 
Ritesh helps during Home Help Time. He folds towels, helps arrange utensils, learns to wipe the table, and feels proud when the family works together. 

Passage 5 – Family Evening on the Terrace (Page 14) 
Mihir spends Sunday evenings on the terrace with his family, walking, chatting, watching the moon, meeting neighbours, and enjoying fresh air until bedtime. 

✅ Answer Key (For Parents & Educators) 

Exercise 1 – Fill in the Blanks (Page 4) 
1. apartment 
2. bird 
3. idlis 
4. bag 
5. school 
6. Kavya 
7. shelf 
8. fruit 
9. balcony 
10. story 

Exercise 2 – MCQs (Pages 6–7) 
1. b 
2. b 
3. a 
4. a 
5. b 
6. a 
7. b 
8. a 
9. b 
10. b 

Exercise 3 – One-Word Answers (Pages 9–10) 
1. corner 
2. Ms. Farah 
3. window 
4. green 
5. animals 
6. pages 
7. shelf 
8. pictures 
9. teacher 
10. confidence 

Exercise 4 – One-Line Answers (Pages 12–13) 
1. They have Home Help Time to keep the house neat and comfortable. 
2. Ritesh folds soft towels during Home Help Time. 
3. His sister dusts the bookshelves. 
4. He places the towels in a basket near the bathroom. 
5. He takes his work seriously because he wants to help like grown-ups. 
6. He helps arrange cups and plates later. 
7. His father teaches him to wipe the table gently. 
8. He enjoys the tasks because he learns how small actions keep a home clean. 

Exercise 5 – Short Answers (Pages 15–16) 
1. Mihir enjoys going to the terrace because he likes the cool breeze, walking with his parents, and spending peaceful time outdoors. 
2. His family spreads a mat, sits together, talks about their day, and relaxes in the fresh air. 
3. The other children walk around, look at the moon, count lights, and enjoy being together. 
4. Mrs. Joshi lets them smell fresh leaves and shows them how she waters and cares for the plants. 
5. The terrace feels peaceful because families relax, talk softly, and enjoy the quiet evening air. 
6. Mihir feels calm, happy, and close to his family when he returns home. 

Make early comprehension joyful with this Class 1 unseen passage worksheet — perfect for building reading confidence, vocabulary, and clear understanding. 

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