2nd - 4th Grade Reading Passages Resources

Children will be inspired by the many ways dogs help their human companions in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about soul music and the history of African-Americans in pop music, all in this Hip-Hop Music worksheet!

Children will practice using nonfiction text features as they read and interpret a passage about extreme weather.

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.

As your students complete this reading comprehension exercise, they will learn about their lungs while practicing active reading skills.

Read Aesop's classic fable, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

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.

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

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

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.

Practice identifying and interpreting nonfiction text features in this worksheet about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

In this fascinating worksheet, children learn about the history of chocolate, from its ancient ceremonial use to the invention of the chocolate candy bar.

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

Learners will practice identifying the theme of a story by reading a short passage and answering four comprehension questions.

Children read a brief history of fireworks, then answer a series of questions designed to help them reflect on what they have learned.

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

Introduce your little reader to some classic childhood literature, with Rudyard Kipling's charming story "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

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

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

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author's point.

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.

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

Here's a worksheet that's great for improving reading comprehension skills. Kids read a simple story about a girl and her kitten then answer the question below.

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.