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

Main Idea of a Story Worksheet

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

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

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #4

Take reading a piece and a clue at a time to help your child improve his reading skills. Ask and answer questions like who, what, where, when and why, about details, key info and using text evidence.

Be a Text Detective

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

The Lion and the Mouse Fable

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 discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1&ndash;38 of The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #1

Children will read this Reader&#39;s Theater script, then answer&nbsp;questions designed to support their understanding of the characters, story, and message of the play.

Reader’s Theater: Fourth of July

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

The Crow and the Jug

The Ant and the Grasshopper is a fable that teaches kids the value of hard work. Kids will focus on comprehension and predictions in this worksheet.

The Ant and the Grasshopper

This workbook is a festive way to work on reading comprehension strategies.

A Holiday Bedtime Story

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #3

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

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #2

After reading The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, complete this comprehension page to test your understanding of the story.

The Nightingale Comprehension

Here's a Loki myth to satisfy fans of this sneaky god: Loki and the Builder, where he tries to outwit an equally sneaky human.

Loki Myths: Loki and the Builder

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

Connect the Events

Use this writing response to test your little reader's understanding of "The Elves and the Shoemaker" by the Brothers Grimm.

The Elves and the Shoemaker: Writing Response

Put a personalized twist on the old-school bookmark and your young reader will make the experience more fun for themselves by reviewing the book as they go.

Cool Bookmarks 3

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: What's the Moral?

Glossary: What's the Moral?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: What's the Moral?

Vocabulary Cards: What's the Moral?

Students will read a short fictional story and discuss why the author included certain details and words. Use this lesson to help your students navigate parts of fictional text to determine the author's purpose!  

Examining Author's Purpose in a Fictional Text

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