2nd and 3rd Grade Reading Comprehension Interactive Worksheets

Reinforce reading comprehension skills with this simple practice quiz!

Story sequencing will allow third graders to improve their reading comprehension by putting the sequence of events in the correct order.

Help your third grader practice following directions on how to build a tornado in a bottle, and build his reading comprehension skills in the process.

Finding the main idea of a story is a fundamental reading comprehension skill. Help your child tackle reading with this beginner's worksheet!

The main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph. With this worksheet, students will read the paragraphs carefully then circle the statement that best fits the paragraph's main idea.

In this worksheet, children determine the order of events in a story about two friends who like to roller skate together in their neighborhood.

Give your second grader's logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect.

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

Read about Pete and all of his pets in this story. 

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.

Help your child understand cause and effect with this practice sheet.

What will you be doing on Saturday? Jamie will be on a fishing boat with her grandpa. Read all about her grandpa's boat and then answer the questions.

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.

Here is a fresh and fruity way to learn a bit of life science. Sit down with your little one and teach them all the different parts of an apple!

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

Geared toward second graders, this science worksheet has young scientists read about spiders and their webs and then demonstrate their nonfiction comprehension by filling in the diagram with the correct anatomical terms.

Help your beginning reader learn about phonetic spellings that show how to pronounce a word. In this activity, she'll match each word with its pronunciation.

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

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.

Students will practice using dictionary guide words by matching words to the pages they would appear on.

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Children learn about the life of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, in this timeline activity.

Kids will sharpen their dictionary skills with this challenging guide words sort. By sorting a group of words into their correct dictionary locations, young readers will gain confidence and dexterity in their reading and vocabulary abilities.

Your students will use this two-sided worksheet to practice distinguishing between facts and opinions. As they do, they’ll have fun learning about howler monkeys!

Count the syllables in the limericks in this poetry worksheet!

Put the events of the story in sequential order from what happened first to what happened last. Then read the story to learn more about Rocky!

What happened and why? Match the events in cause-and-effect pairs in this engaging reading comprehension worksheet!