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1st - 3rd Grade Common Core Reading Comprehension Worksheets : Page 12

What happened in the story? Use this helpful graphic organizer to capture the characters, setting, and important events in a fiction text.

Who, What, Where 

The “I Voted” sticker has become a tradition at polling booths around the country! Introduce children to this symbol of civic pride with this engaging coloring worksheet.

“I Voted” Coloring Page

This is a comprehension resource for students to record their questions before, during, and after they have read nonfiction text.

Asking Questions: Before, During, and After

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

Note-Taking from a Text

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

Metaphors in Context

Get to know some of the most famous larger-than-life characters from our traditional oral folklore with this tall tales worksheet!

What is a Tall Tale?

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Character Emotion Descriptions

In Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far), third and fourth graders reference a timeline of Sotomayor's life to answer questions about her life.

Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far)

Feel inspired to move to the beat with our reading comprehension exercise about Mexican music. Kids answer questions about the article in this writing worksheet.

Mexican Music Facts

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying key ideas by looking for repeated words and phrases in a text.

Identifying Key Ideas with Repeated Words and Phrases

This selection of questions helps reinforce reading comprehension and highlights various elements of the story.

Practice Understanding What You Read

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

Glossary: Using the 5 W's

Understanding the relationship of cause and effect is a cornerstone of strong reading comprehension skills. Students will seek to explain why events happened in a book of their choosing in this cause and effect activity.

Reading Comprehension: Cause and Effect

Who is telling the story?  Words like I, me, she, and he can help figure this out! Use this exercise with your students to practice determining who is telling the story.

Point of View: My Family Reunion

Everyone gets to be a movie maker! Use this resource with your students as they practice visualizing. As they make a movie in their mind, they will create illustrations to accompany a text.

Reading Strategies: Visualizing

The Shoshone were an important Native American tribe. Your little historian will learn about the culture and history of this tribe.

Native American Tribes: Shoshone

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

Ideas of The Harlem Renaissance

Can your child tell fact from fiction? Boost reading comprehension with this story sheet featuring a famous tall tale character: Paul Bunyan!

Paul Bunyan

With this worksheet, your students will connect the key ideas of this nonfiction text and identify the cause and effect relationships.

Cause and Effect: The Industrial Revolution

Use this activity to reinforce using sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text!

Magnificent Bears!

Help the Smith family summarize their family vacation with a main idea, details, and a conclusion. Kids will work on reading comprehension and summarizing.

Story Order: Case 2

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Finding the Purpose

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

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

Learners practice comparing two stories with similar characters and themes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Compare Similar Stories

Is your kid struggling with reading comprehension? Try this short and sweet story from Oscar Wilde.

The Selfish Giant

This template encourages thoughtful, engaged reading as children practice making predictions as they go.

Make Predictions During Independent Reading

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

Compare Story Elements

Give your students practice with Reader’s Theater in the wonderful genre of drama. They will read and practice fluency, as well as comprehension.

Reader’s Theater: Summertime Blues

Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.

Describe Character Actions with Subjects, Verbs, and Objects

Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.

Signal the Story Structure

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