Worksheets and No Prep Teaching Resources Reading Comprehension Worksheets Muscular System

An Overview of the Muscular System Muscular System

---

An Overview of the Muscular System
Print An Overview of the Muscular System Reading Comprehension with Fourth Grade Work

Print An Overview of the Muscular System Reading Comprehension with Fifth Grade Work

Print An Overview of the Muscular System Reading Comprehension with Sixth Grade Work

Print An Overview of the Muscular System Reading Comprehension

Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 4 to 6
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	5.47

Vocabulary

challenging words:

actin, axial, fibril, fibrils, gluteus, intestinal, maximus, myosin, ropelike, tomography, thereby, torso, extremely, injury, cardiac, spinal

Other Languages
     French: Un vue d'ensemble du système musculaire
     Spanish: Una visión general del sistema muscular
     Italian: Una panoramica del sistema muscolare
     German: Ein Überblick über die Muskulatur

---

An Overview of the Muscular System By Jennifer Kenny

---

¹     Can you play the violin or run in your backyard? Can you jump? Can you turn the page of your favorite book or pick up the television remote? If you can, your muscles are moving your body in some form or fashion. Even if you think you are completely still, there are muscles in your body that are causing your eyelids to blink or making you breathe.
 
²     In the average person, forty percent of the body weight comes from muscles. You have approximately 640 muscles that you can control, and many others that you can't.
 
³     How do muscles move your body? By contracting. When a muscle contracts, it shortens, thereby moving the bones to which it is attached. Muscles tend to work in pairs. When one muscle pulls the bone closer, another muscle relaxes to allow the bone to move farther away. Muscles are attached to bones by tendons. These are narrow, ropelike tissues.

Paragraphs 4 to 9:
For the complete story with questions: click here for printable

---

Weekly Reading Books

Create Weekly Reading Books Prepare for an entire week at once!

---

Feedback on An Overview of the Muscular System

Leave your feedback on An Overview of the Muscular System   (use this link if you found an error in the story)

---

Muscular System

Muscular System

---

Health

Alcohol         Bicycle Safety         Circulatory System         Digestive System         Disabilities         Drugs         Excretory System         Food Pyramid         Health Professionals         Healthy Life         Hygiene         Illnesses         Medical Tools

Miscellaneous Health Topics         Muscular System         My Plate         Nervous System         Nutrition         Reproductive System         Respiratory System         Skeletal System         Teeth         The Five Senses         The Human Body         Tobacco

Copyright © 2025 edHelper