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2nd and 3rd Grade Common Core Reading Passages Worksheets : Page 2

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

Your students will demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text features, such as caption, diagram, and heading, with this helpful vocabulary worksheet.

Starfish Text Features

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

Character Emotion Match Cards

Little gardeners, get to know your plants! See the cycle of a plant from its birth to adulthood, and read a bit about photosynthesis too.

Life Cycle of a Plant

Reading Fluency: Airplanes

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

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.

Spiders and Their Webs

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

Story Elements in Sentences

Use this reading passage to practice reading comprehension with your learners.

Reading Comprehension: Frederick Douglass

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

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

Learning About Maps!

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

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!

Parts of an Apple

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

Cause and Effect

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

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

Reading Comprehension: Sugar and Spice

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 1

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

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Make a Match: Reading Genres

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

Children use their investigative skills and powers of deduction to complete a series of questions and prompts about their local government.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Local Government for Kids

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Using Text Features in Nonfiction

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Local Government

This worksheet helps your child focus on prediction and comprehension in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Kids will read the classic fable and answer written prompts.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf Prediction and Comprehension

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