Kindness Blooms Again: The Selfish Giant – Reading Comprehension for Class 6 

This Grade 6 reading comprehension worksheet retells Oscar Wilde’s classic fable The Selfish Giant, a heartwarming story about sharing, kindness, and transformation. The tale follows a Giant who builds a wall around his garden, keeping children away — until he learns that joy and beauty return only when we open our hearts to others. 

Through this story, learners strengthen reading comprehension, moral reasoning, and vocabulary skills while appreciating the connection between kindness and happiness. The worksheet encourages deep reflection through a mix of factual, inferential, and creative exercises. 
 

Why Reading Comprehension Matters in Grammar? 

Reading comprehension builds not only language fluency but also emotional understanding. For Grade 6 learners, this topic is important because: 
1. It improves sentence interpretation and moral inference. 
2. It enhances vocabulary through descriptive and emotional storytelling. 
3. It teaches empathy and cause-effect understanding in text. 
4. It helps learners express ideas using proper grammar and structure. 

What’s Inside This Worksheet? 

🧠 Exercise 1 – Multiple Choice Questions 
Students choose correct answers about the Giant’s wall, the children’s return, and how the story ends happily. 

✏️ Exercise 2 – Short Answer Questions
Learners explain what the Giant did, how nature responded, and why the children were sad. 

📚 Exercise 3 – Higher-Order Thinking & Vocabulary
Students reflect on kindness, emotions, and transformation while finding a synonym for beautiful → lovely. 
 

✅ Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)

Exercise 1 – Choose the Correct Option
1. a) Because he built a wall and kept children out 
2. c) The trees and flowers came back to life 
3. c) He broke the wall and let children play 

Exercise 2 – Short Answer Questions
1. He put up a high wall with a warning notice. 
2. A bird’s song woke the Giant from sleep. 
3. They lost their favourite place to play. 

Exercise 3 – Critical Thinking & Vocabulary
1. It teaches that kindness and sharing bring happiness. 
2. I would feel joyful and thankful to play again. 
3. When the Giant became kind, spring returned to his garden. 
4. Synonym for “beautiful” – Lovely.

Help your child explore empathy and transformation through this touching fable. 
Let every act of kindness bloom in their imagination and learning! 

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