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2nd - 6th Grade Common Core Fiction Passages Resources : Page 2

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

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.

Reading Comprehension:  Pinocchio

Have your third grader practice their reading fluency with this passage about Autumn.

Reading Fluency: Autumn

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

Paraphrasing Practice

Practice analyzing characters with this worksheet that features an excerpt from C.S. Lewis&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe</em>.&nbsp;

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Analyzing Characters in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Students read an original two-page story and answer questions to boost essential reading comprehension skills.

Extended Reading Comprehension: The One

Compare and contrast two scenes from&nbsp;<em>The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe</em> with this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Comparing and Contrasting in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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.

The Fox and the Crow

Familiarize your child with Peter Pan, one of the most enduring characters of children's literature, with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Reading Comprehension: Peter Pan

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

Cause and Effect

Reading Fluency: Airplanes

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

Write a Simple Summary

Readers will delight in this first (worst) day of school story, and practice cause and effect with this funny worksheet.

First Day of School: Cause and Effect

Students will read passages and compare the traits of two characters.

Read & Compare Character Traits

Build your reading stamina and comprehension skills with this worksheet based on “Ashputtel,” the Grimm Brothers’ version of another famous fairy tale.

Extended Reading Comprehension: Ashputtel

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

Character Emotion Match Cards

Your students will need to read between the lines as they make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Close Reading Annotations

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

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

Story Map

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

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 resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

Story Elements in Sentences

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

In this three-part series, a child anticipates a family getaway. Practice summarizing works of fiction, identifying chronology, interpreting pictures, and identifying homophones and homographs through this series of reading and comprehension activities.

My Vacation

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Making Inferences in a Fictional Text

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

Reading Comprehension: Sugar and Spice

Young readers will discover how to identify the point of view of a story or text in this literacy worksheet.

Point of View

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

Reading Fluency: Football

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