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1st and 2nd Grade Common Core Reading Comprehension Resources : Page 8

This worksheet helps students analyze the ways in which stories are similar and different.

Story Elements: Compare & Contrast

Pretend you're spending the holidays in France as you discover the Christmas customs and culinary delights of a country half a world away!

Christmas in France

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

Main Topic Cards

Introduce second and third graders to W.E.B. Du Bois, writer, sociologist, and civil rights advocate, with this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

Best Friends Forever Literary Response

Kids will read a classic Japanese folktale and then answer questions about the the problem, solution, and ending in this fun reading comprehension activity.

Momotaro's Ending

Does your child know the story of Cinderella? Sit down with your young reader and put these Cinderella story sequencing pictures back in order!

Color the Cinderella Moment

Get reading going with your own Three Billy Goats Gruff story booklet.

Three Billy Goats Gruff Story

Color in this cool scene at the White House, and learn a few White House facts too!

The White House

What is going to happen next in this story? Become a storyteller with this fun comprehension worksheet!

What is Going to Happen?

Maximize what your students learn from reading nonfiction by having them fill out a KWL chart before and after reading.

Nonfiction KWL Chart

Learners get a brief introduction to the capital of the United States in this worksheet.

The Nation's Capital: Washington, D.C.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who, Where, What, When, Why, and How Questions.

Vocabulary Cards: Who, Where, What, When, Why, and How Questions

Fairy tales are a great way to engage your students in reading! Help them determine the central message of the classic story, The Tortoise and the Hare, with this fun reading comprehension worksheet.

Fairy Tale Lessons: Tortoise and the Hare

Oh no, this story has gotten all jumbled! Practice recognizing story order by putting these panels back together.

Story Order

If you're good in Mexico, the Three Wise Men might come on Christmas Day and leave you candy and money!

Christmas in Mexico

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

Organize Your Questions

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

All About Wangari Maathai

Let your students show you the way through a story of their choice using this fun road map! Your students will get to flex their reading comprehension muscles as they write about various story elements, including main characters, setting, and plot.

Story Roadmap

Why do athletes get their own cards but not book characters? Change all that with this fun, reusable worksheet.

Character Trading Card

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Main Topic Worksheet

Get to know pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson in this reading comprehension worksheet!

All About Katherine Johnson

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Sticky Note Stop and Jot

Engage students in reading by having them share books with peers. Students prepare for giving a book talk in which they'll describe what happens in the book, their favorite part, and whether or not they would recommend the book to a friend.

Give a Book Talk!

Use this worksheet to give your students confidence in reading nonfiction texts by familiarizing them with visual elements like diagrams, photographs, illustrations, and charts.

Classifying Visual Text Features

Enjoy the story of "The Princess and the Pea" with your beginning reader. Use this story as a starter for literary activities.

Princess and the Pea

This short nonfiction text will provide students with an opportunity to become more comfortable with identifying and defining academic vocabulary words—and they'll have fun learning all about the life cycle of a chicken in the process!

A Chicken's Life Cycle

The "Somebody Wanted But So Then" reading strategy is a great way to help kids identify the key elements of a story. Students will use this easy format to begin summarizing a story of your choice in this fun treasure map-themed worksheet!

"Somebody Wanted" Story Map

Put the events of the story in sequential order from what happened first to what happened last. Then read the story to learn more about Rocky!

Sequencing Activity: Rocky Sings at Sunrise

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Glossary: Using the 5 W's

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