This free 4th grade reading comprehension worksheet retells the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur with questions about plot, character, and vocabulary.
Long ago on the island of Crete, King Minos kept a terrible creature called the Minotaur. It had the body of a man and the head of a bull. The Minotaur lived in a labyrinth, a maze so complex that no one who entered could find the way out. Every nine years, Athens had to send young people into the labyrinth as a sacrifice. A brave young prince named Theseus volunteered to go. With help from the princess Ariadne, who gave him a ball of thread to mark his path, Theseus entered the labyrinth, defeated the Minotaur, and followed the thread back to safety.
The myth of the Minotaur is one of the most well-known stories from Greek mythology. This worksheet helps 4th graders practice reading comprehension with a narrative passage that builds vocabulary and inference skills.