Fiction Comprehension

Fiction is a way to create new worlds...but sometimes all that fantasy is hard to organize in your mind. Help your child master fiction comprehension with our expert-reviewed materials. From simple passage-and-answer sheets to activities that let kids examine the arcs of their own stories, we’ve got all you need to turn your student into a storytelling -- and story-reading -- superstar.

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The Secret Garden: Reading Comprehension

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Explore "The Secret Garden" with this reading comprehension worksheet.

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Reading for Comprehension: Cause and Effect

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This cause and effect worksheet opens your child up to improved critical thinking abilities. Use this cause and effect worksheet to focus on story structure.

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Main Idea of a Story Worksheet

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This main idea worksheet guides your child through reading comprehension practice. Download today to get started!

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Put the Story Sequence in Order

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Story sequencing will allow third graders to improve their reading comprehension by putting the sequence of events in the correct order.

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Reading Comprehension: The Serpent and the Eagle

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Strengthen your students' reading comprehension skills with the fable, The Serpent and the Eagle.

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Three Little Pigs: 5 W's Reading Comprehension

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This lesson focuses on reading comprehension by answering the 5W's about the story, The Three Little Pigs.

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The Ant and the Grasshopper

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The Ant and the Grasshopper is a fable that teaches kids the value of hard work. Kids will focus on comprehension and predictions in this worksheet.

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Picture Comprehension

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Picture comprehension is a great intro to reading comprehension! Kids will simply identify what is going on in each picture.

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Panchatantra: "The Fish that were too Clever"

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Help your kid learn about theme with a reading comprehension page that features a story from Panchatantra, a collection of classic animal fables from India.

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Reading Between the Lines

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Students will make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

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Reading Comprehension: The Kitten

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Here's a worksheet that's great for improving reading comprehension skills. Kids read a simple story about a girl and her kitten then answer the question below.

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Scrambled Similes

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This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

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Reading for Comprehension: Jason and the Game Show

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Get your third grader in the habit of reading closely with this multi-page story featuring questions on the main character, sequencing, and recalling details.

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Reading Comprehension: The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey

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Read this fable and answer questions to practice reading comprehension.

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Reading Comprehension: The Ice Cream Disaster

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This passage will challenge your 3rd graders to think deeper into the text to strengthen their comprehension skills.

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Reading Comprehension: Peter Pan

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In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.

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Get Ready for Fourth Grade

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This summer-themed workbook prepares students to enter the fourth grade with the skills they’ll need, and includes practice with the core subjects of word study, math, reading and writing.

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What Happened Next?

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Play author with this creative writing and comprehension exercise! Your child will learn all about inference, or drawing conclusions based on what they've read.

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Wh Questions

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Help your child learn the "Wh words," who, what, where, why and when, with this charming story about a day at the dog park.

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Sequencing The Three Little Pigs

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Help kids master reading comprehension with this sequencing game.

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Short and Sweet Summaries

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Use this resource with your students to practice writing concise fiction summaries.

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Reading Comprehension

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These articles, short stories, fairy tales and fables teach kids about a wide range of subjects so your child can learn more about history and science while improving literacy and vocabulary skills.

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The Crab that Played with the Sea

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Introduce your little reader to some classic childhood literature, with Rudyard Kipling's charming story "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

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Reading Closely

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Young readers will love this story-filled reading comprehension lesson. It's packed with engaging exercises designed to help students become better at looking for details and annotating passages of text.

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Fiction passages all feature certain story elements. Understanding these elements and being able to cull them from the full passage will aid in their comprehension.

Plot - The plot of a fictitious passage is the meat of the story. It is the word we use to describe the events that are happening to the characters.
Setting - The setting refers to the where and when of the story. These are referred to as the physical and the chronological settings.
Character - The character refers to the actors in the story as well as their personalities. Your student should be able to tell if the character is generous or selfish, virtuous or wicked, supporting their claims with examples from the text.
Symbol - The symbol in a story is something in the passage that is physical but represents something intangible. These are often elusive if not completely imagined by the reader, but having your students seek them out will lead to a much deeper comprehension of the passage they read.
Point of view - The point of view refers to how the story is told and who it is told by. The first person point of view is when a character in the story is recounting the events from their perspective. Third person is when the story is told from an omniscient point of view.

Having your students approach fictional passages asking who, what, where, why, when and how will help them to understand the passage. Practicing with the resources provided above by Education.com may help them to do this as they move forward.

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