Create personalized reading comprehension exercises in minutes

Transform Your Teaching
 with AI-Powered Worksheets

With ReadTheory’s Instant Worksheet Builder, you can create engaging, grade-appropriate worksheets tailored to your students in minutes. Spark curiosity, save time, and empower critical thinking with AI-powered tools designed for teachers like you.

Max and Maya, the Magnet Friends

Questions: 5

Grade: 3

Words: 61

Text

Text & Questions

Text, Questions & Answers

Max and Maya were magnets, best friends, and adventurers. One day, they explored a metal playground. Surprisingly, sometimes they pulled together, other times they pushed apart. "Why?" they wondered. Understanding came when they turned around. Max, the north, and Maya, the south, always pulled together. But when the same poles faced, they pushed apart. It was magic! No, it was magnetism!

Question 1

Who are Max and Maya in the story?

They are magnets

Explanation. In the story, Max and Maya are represented as magnets.

They are kids

They are cats

They are teachers

They are cars

Question 2

What happens when the same poles of Max and Maya faced each other?

They stick together

They go on an adventure

They push each other away

Explanation. The story explains that when the same poles of the magnets (Max and Maya) faced each other, they pushed each other away.

They play in the playground

They become best friends

Question 3

What is the main idea of the story?

Playground adventure

Friendship

Magnetism

Explanation. The central idea of the story is to explain the concept of magnetism using the characters Max and Maya.

Magic

Exploration

Question 4

Why were Max and Maya surprised?

Because they pushed each other away

Explanation. Max and Maya, being magnets, were surprised when they pushed each other away.

Because they stuck together

Because they turned into humans

Because they could speak

Because they lost each other

Question 5

What type of literary element is used to represent Max and Maya?

Metaphor

Simile

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Personification

Explanation. Personification is used in the story as Max and Maya, who are magnets, are given human qualities like emotions and the ability to wonder.

Expand full text

Hide full text

Did you like the experience?

Let’s create more interesting passages!

Generate another one!

Why Teachers Love
Instant Worksheet Builder?

Tailored Content  for Every Student

Craft worksheets with passages and multiple-choice questions customized to your chosen topic and grade level, ensuring relevance and engagement.

Save Hours 
of Prep Time

Our AI, Lexi, generates complete worksheets—passages, questions,  and answers—in minutes, freeing you to focus on teaching, not planning.

Standards-Aligned  Learning

Every worksheet is designed to boost reading comprehension and critical thinking, aligning seamlessly with State Standards to help your students shine.