Give your second graders some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the timeless story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Students will read this classic fable and then answer questions about setting, characters, genre, and cause and effect.

Use the templates to assemble and stage a puppet show based on the story.

Students will read and answer questions about the Bradley family's summer vacation. 

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.

In this reading fluency worksheet, second and third graders read a story about a sleepy sloth, then answer simple reading comprehension questions.

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author's message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!

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

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.

Read a classic fable with your beginning reader! This story page for "The Ugly Duckling" will help build reading skills.

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.

Help your child learn the "Wh words," who, what, where, why and when, with this charming story about a day at the dog park.

Play author with this creative writing and comprehension exercise! Your child will learn all about inference, or drawing conclusions based on what they've read.

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

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.

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

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

Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

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

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.

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.

This excerpt has exactly 100 words and is great reading practice for your little quaterbacks!

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.

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

Use this resource for fluency practice.

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

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

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.

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

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

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