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1st - 3rd Grade Fiction Passages Worksheets : Page 8

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

Compare Similar Stories

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

Familiarity with different types of texts is an important part of the first grade reading curriculum. In this worksheet, kids read Christina Rossetti's famous poem, "Caterpillar" and then answer questions about what they read.

Caterpillar

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Compare Characters

After reading a short text, students gain practice making predictions about what will happen next.

Birthday Party: Predictions

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

Visualize and Summarize

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

Retelling Folktales and Fables

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

I Can Infer

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

Three Billy Goats Gruff Story

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

Book Casting Call

Your students will use their imaginations to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

Schema, Evidence, and Inference

To deepen your students’ understanding of dramas, have them utilize their understanding of the key terms to compare and contrast dramas to other genres. They will use information found in a Venn diagram to complete a paragraph frame.

Comparing Drama to Other Genres

Little readers will love a fun storyboard activity with the three little pigs! Re-tell this classic story with these cut-out pictures of scenes from the story.

The Three Little Pigs Story

Making Predictions: The Lion and the Mouse

Use this stop and jot reflection activity to assess reading comprehension. Your students will choose their favorite response to their reading and explain their choice.

Sticky Note Stop and Jot Reflection

When writing a story, adjectives make the story more colorful. This worksheet trains students to enhance sentences by adding descriptive adjectives to their writing.

Make it Descriptive

Use this worksheet to help your students practice identifying adverbs, read fluently, and demonstrate their reading comprehension.

Adverbs in a Script

This worksheet gives kids a place to list all the books they've read!

My Reading Shelf

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

Get mischievous during story time and read the story of "Rumpelstiltskin", abridged for your first grader.

Rumpelstiltskin

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

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

Evaluate a Text: What Do You Think?

Are some predictions better than others? In this worksheet, students identify the event most likely to happen and use details from the story to explain their thinking.

The Best Prediction

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

Help your growing reader understand characterization with this worksheet that asks her to identify the heroes and villains in the book she's reading.

Heroes and Villains

Take your young reader on an adventure in the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. Color the illustrations and practice reading and counting skills too!

Jack and the Beanstalk: Part 1

Use this simple and effective graphic organizer to have students predict or describe events from their own lives or from stories.

First, Then, Last

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

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

The Similarities in the Stories

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.

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