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2nd - 6th Grade Common Core Reading Passages Worksheets

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

Main Idea: Working Dogs

Explore the many ways people around the world embrace winter in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Informational Reading Comprehension: The Art of Embracing Cold Weather

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

Find the Main Idea: Shark

In Reading Comprehension: The Adventure Begins,&nbsp;learners will read an engaging one-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions about the text.&nbsp;

Reading Comprehension: The Adventure Begins

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

Identifying the Main Idea & Details

Practice analyzing figurative language in context with this excerpt from C.S. Lewis&rsquo;s classic fantasy novel, <em>The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe</em>!

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Figurative Language in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

Day of the Dead

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

Learning About the Ocean

Hone key reading comprehension strategies with this engaging five-page worksheet!

Extended Reading Comprehension: Think Fast!

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.

"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" Story Map

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.

Reading for Comprehension: Following Directions

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

Finding the Theme

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

Extended Informational Reading Comprehension: The Buzz About Beekeeping

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

Nonfiction Text Features: Wild, Wild Weather

Learn about Jewish-American baseball player Sandy Koufax, a baseball legend who&#39;s considered one of the greatest Jewish-American athletes in history.

Sandy Koufax Biography

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!

History of Hip Hop Music

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

The Hare and the Tortoise

Read about the history of the Winchester Mystery House, and then answer some comprehension questions.

Winchester Mystery House

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

Reading Fluency: Autumn

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

Understanding Cause and Effect: The Life of Anne Frank 

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from the Grimm Brothers&#39; &quot;The Golden Bird.&quot;

Reading for Fluency: The Golden Bird

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

Reading Comprehension: No Sudden Moves

Support students&rsquo; inference skills with this targeted two-page reading worksheet.&nbsp;

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Making Inferences in Walk Two Moons

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

Video Games: Not Just for Fun

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

Chocolate: A Short and Sweet History

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

Finding Word Meaning: Context Clues & Text Features #1

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

Starfish Text Features

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

All About Vampires

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

The Ugly Duckling

Explore West Africa&#39;s historical gold salt trade with this fascinating reading passage and accompanying set of comprehension questions!

The Gold and Salt Trade 

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2nd - 6th Grade Common Core Reading Passages Worksheets

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