Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

Help your active readers identify key vocabulary and important details with the help of two graphic organizers!

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

This short nonfiction text will teach students about the ocean, and includes questions to help students identify the author’s point of view and purpose for writing the text by focusing on important vocabulary words that support the main idea.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying key ideas by looking for repeated words and phrases in a text.

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

Readers practice identifying the main idea in works of nonfiction in this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Learners will practice identifying the main idea and supporting in works of nonfiction texts as they learn about the ocean.

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

Children will discover more about the culinary history of early Americans as they practice practice identifying the main idea and supporting details.

In this worksheet, students will learn how to use adverbial phrases in their writing.

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Children learn about the ways that butterflies like the viceroy and buckeye avoid predators in this engaging reading comprehension worksheet.

The worksheet provides a tool for learners to gather and organize key information about civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, children will learn about the St. Johns River, the longest river in Florida.

Children learn about Madam C.J. Walker, the first woman to become a self-made millionaire in the United States, in this Finding the Main Idea worksheet.

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

Hook young learners into reading with this colorful passage on crochet!

Track down the main idea in this foundational worksheet! 

Dig into main ideas and details as you read about salsa gardens in this engaging worksheet!