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1st - 3rd Grade Fiction Passages Worksheets : Page 2

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device! 

Author’s Purpose: Multiple Choice

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

Reading Comprehension:  The Ice Cream Disaster

Story webs organize a story into one main idea and several details. Help your second grader read the story, then analyze it using the story web.

Story Comprehension: What's in a Story?

This excerpt has exactly 100 words and is great reading practice for your little quaterbacks!

Reading Fluency: Football

Reading Fluency: Airplanes

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Two Fiction Texts

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

Summary High Five

Help your child learn to navigate narrative poetry, then write their own poem, in this super-fun narrative poetry worksheet.

Narrative Poetry

n this funny fairy tale, a brave young man has a few run-ins with some boastful ghosts.

The Man Who Was Afraid of Nothing

Students will practice making inferences about the characters, setting, and events based on clues in the passage.

Can You Make an Inference?

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

Author's Purpose

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author&#39;s message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!

Make Your Own Inferences

Folktales are a great way to get your child into reading, and to help them consider moral values as well!

Folktales: The Princess Mouse

Children practice connecting cause to effect in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Cause & Effect Reading Comprehension: Home Sick

Practice those reading skills with the story of "The Three Little Pigs"! This classic tale provides a great starter for reading comprehension.

Story of the Three Little Pigs

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.

Reading for Comprehension: Cause and Effect

Help your child read deeper into a story by having him practice making inferences about what happened.

Making Inferences

In this worksheet, learners will refer to illustrations to make inferences about which of two lines of text is true.

Making Inferences With Pictures

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Make a Match: Reading Genres

After independent reading, have students record and reflect. Young readers will demonstrate their ability to summarize and respond to their reading, and a log is a fun way for them to track their progress. Make copies of this log to use again and again!

Independent Reading Log

This exercise will give your students practice reading a text, making a prediction, and citing text evidence to support it. They will use introductory phrases as they complete sentence frames to create strong evidence-based sentences.

Making Predictions with Text Evidence

This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the story.

Emily's Turtle

Build comprehension skills with this reading page on cause and effect for kids.

Cause and Effect for Kids

Children read the First Amendment, then complete a simple word scramble puzzle and answer reading comprehension questions.

Learn the First Amendment

Children use their logic skills to look at the images and decide which of two statements describes each one best in this second grade literacy worksheet.

Making Inferences with Pictures

This ELA-focused choice board is perfect for supporting independence and encouraging students to practice their reading skills, build reading fluency, and boost reading comprehension.

Get Reading! Choice Board

Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

Compare and Contrast: Vertebrates and Invertebrates

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.

Chapter Summary

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

Reading Comprehension: Map That Story!

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