1st and 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets

Reinforce reading comprehension skills with this simple practice quiz!

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

The main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph. With this worksheet, students will read the paragraphs carefully then circle the statement that best fits the paragraph's main idea.

Help your child understand cause and effect with this practice sheet.

Give your second graders some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the timeless story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Students will read this classic fable and then answer questions about setting, characters, genre, and cause and effect.

Use the templates to assemble and stage a puppet show based on the story.

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

Read Aesop's classic fable, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

Your students will demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text features, such as caption, diagram, and heading, with this helpful vocabulary worksheet.

Give your second grader's logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect.

Help your beginning reader boost her reading comprehension by figuring out what happened next in three different story lines.

In this worksheet, children determine the order of events in a story about two friends who like to roller skate together in their neighborhood.

Stories are a fantastic way to teach kids important life lessons. This reading comprehension worksheet uses the classic Aesop’s fable—The Fox and the Crow—to get your students thinking about the central lesson of a story.

Students will read and answer questions about the Bradley family's summer vacation. 

In this reading fluency worksheet, second and third graders read a story about a sleepy sloth, then answer simple reading comprehension questions.

Oh no, Jack's beanstalk story is all jumbled up! Cut out the pictures and fix the story sequence to help Jack get his story straight!

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

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

This picture story is all mixed up! Use this worksheet to teach your students how to put plot events in order.

Read a classic fable with your beginning reader! This story page for "The Ugly Duckling" will help build reading skills.

Read this cozy poem by A.A. Milne, then answer a reading comprehension question.

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.

Use this reading passage to practice reading comprehension with your learners.

This worksheet practices story sequencing, an essential reading comprehension skill for first graders.

Read about Pete and all of his pets in this story. 

Your students will read two short stories, then compare and contrast the characters, problems, solutions, and themes with the help of a graphic organizer.

Use this reading worksheet to help second and third graders learn about the inspiring work of Jane Goodall, famous scientist and conservationist.

Children learn the difference between a fact and an opinion, then decide if each of eight sentences are facts or opinions.

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.