My kids get both in their school -- they have the single page comprehension sheets, but also have book clubs of longer books based on either interest or reading group/level, which discuss by the chapter or weekly goal, so I don't feel like they're getting stuck distilling isolated passages only. But it can be frustrating when a passage is an excerpt from a longer text and the inference requires exposure to a context they might not be familiar with. A time and place that they don't know about yet, where the longer text would set the stage for it, and reading more (before and after) would clarify it. They're supposed to just guess? Just know from 2-5 paragraphs?
