2nd - 5th Grade Reading Passages Worksheets

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!

Hone key reading comprehension strategies with this engaging five-page 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.

In this worksheet, students will read about Anne Frank, then complete a chart identifying 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.

In this engaging reading comprehension worrksheet, learners read an original two-page story and answer a set of 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.

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

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

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

In this worksheet, children read Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Snowdrop, reimagined here as a drama.

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.

Develop reading comprehension with this video game passage. Ask your students to read the excerpt, then answer questions about the main ideas and details.

What’s all the buzz about beekeeping? Give students this four-page nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet to find out!

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

Support students’ inference skills with this targeted two-page reading worksheet. 

Dive into the world of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" with this reading comprehension page.

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. 

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by reading about the holiday’s history and imagery!

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.