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1st - 7th Grade Common Core Fiction Passages Worksheets : Page 2

Students will read passages and compare the traits of two characters.

Read & Compare Character Traits

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.

The Fox and the Crow

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.

Reading Comprehension:  Pinocchio

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

Story Sequencing

Get your third grader in the habit of reading closely with this multi-page story featuring questions on the main character, sequencing, and recalling details.

Reading for Comprehension: Alexis and the Game Show

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

Story Map

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Write a Simple Summary

Unravel a classic story from Greek mythology with this two-page reading comprehension worksheet for seventh and eighth-grade learners!

Reading Comprehension: Arachne and the Weaving Contest

Use this original fiction story to give learners practice analyzing story elements, making inferences, and growing their vocabulary using context clues and word relationships.

Reading Comprehension: Lost and Found

Young readers respond to the books they have completed with this versatile worksheet template. 

Reading Response Journal

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character&rsquo;s actions with their emotions.

Character Emotion Match Cards

Reading Fluency: Airplanes

Build your reading stamina and comprehension skills with this worksheet based on “Ashputtel,” the Grimm Brothers’ version of another famous fairy tale.

Extended Reading Comprehension: Ashputtel

In this Reader's Theater worksheet, students read a script, then answer the reading comprehension questions that follow.

Reader’s Theater: Camping in the Cold

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

Reading Comprehension:  The Ice Cream Disaster

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

Paraphrasing Practice

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

Story Elements in Sentences

Students read a two-page adaptation of &quot;The Gift of the Magi&quot; and dig deep into the figurative language and literary devices of this classic story!

Extended Reading Comprehension: The Gift of the Magi

Practice analyzing characters with this worksheet that features an excerpt from C.S. Lewis&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe</em>.&nbsp;

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Analyzing Characters in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Familiarize your child with Peter Pan, one of the most enduring characters of children's literature, with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Reading Comprehension: Peter Pan

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.

Close Reading Annotations

Students read an original two-page story and answer questions to boost essential reading comprehension skills.

Extended Reading Comprehension: The One

Compare and contrast two scenes from&nbsp;<em>The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe</em> with this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Comparing and Contrasting in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.

Paragraph Frame: Summer Vacation

What happened first? Have your young reader find the beginning, middle, and end of this short story. Use the illustrations to help her picture the events.

Sequence of Events

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

Comparing Two Stories

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

Story Elements Map

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.

Cause and Effect

Bring it back to the basics with this reading comprehension exercise about Mindy, her birthday party, and her cake.

Reading Comprehension: Sugar and Spice

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Making Inferences in a Fictional Text

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1st - 7th Grade Common Core Fiction Passages Worksheets : Page 2

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