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

Identify three facts from a work of nonfiction, then draw a picture and write a caption for each.

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

Children learn how to identify cause and effect with the help of a friendly root vegetable in this playful worksheet.

Use this worksheet to help students identify personified nouns and their respective verbs.

Students will read a passage and search for signal words to identify facts and opinions.

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

Help your early readers get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. They'll predict what will happen and identify the moral.

This short nonfiction text will teach students about the ocean, and includes questions to help students identify the main idea the author wanted to communicate by focusing on important vocabulary words that support the main idea.

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

Give your child the tools to decide the difference between fact and opinion with this fun and simple exercise. In this worksheet, children will identify which statements can be proven to be true and which are based on a personal view.

The "Somebody Wanted But So Then" reading strategy is a great way to help kids identify the key elements of a story. Students will use this easy format to begin summarizing a story of your choice in this fun treasure map-themed worksheet!

Give your second grader's logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect.

Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.

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

When bedtime comes before sunset, a summer night can feel a little unfair in this three-page second and third grade poetry worksheet.

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

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

Geared toward second graders, this science worksheet has young scientists read about spiders and their webs and then demonstrate their nonfiction comprehension by filling in the diagram with the correct anatomical terms.

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

No snow? No problem! Read a story about two kids creating their own snow day in this playful reading comprehension worksheet!

Discover the rhythm and rhyme of poetry with this second- and third-grade reading activity!

Celebrate pumpkin season with this three-page second grade poetry worksheet!

Track down the main idea in this foundational worksheet! 

Explore the sounds and patterns of poetry with this second- and third-grade reading activity!