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3rd - 8th Grade Fiction Passages Worksheets : Page 7

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

Make Your Own Inferences 2

When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

Context Clue Matching

Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.

Making Inferences About Feelings

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

Sentence Stems for Making Inferences

Differentiating between facts and opinions is a key fourth grade skill to master and is helpful in identifying the author’s purpose in a text. Use this activity to give your students extra practice differentiating between these two kinds of sentences.

Fact or Opinion Sentences

Improve your child's reading skills and introduce her the classic tale of Peter Rabbit with this comprehension page, all about finding the main idea.

Find the Main Idea: Peter Rabbit

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

Reading Response Log

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Reading Fiction: Main Idea and Details

Children are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.

“I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

A Tale of Two Texts

Use this resource to practice close reading in a fictional text. Your students will look at the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs that give more details about the important story elements.

Close Reading in Fiction

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Book or Character Mind Map

This selection of questions helps reinforce reading comprehension and highlights various elements of the story.

Practice Understanding What You Read

Read through this version of The Crane Wife and answer comprehension questions along the way.

The Crane Wife

Get your students thinking about themes as they compare and contrast two different picture books of their choice.

Compare & Contrast Themes

Guide your students through the process of looking for text evidence and making inferences about the setting in this excerpt from <em>The Secret Garden</em>.

The Secret Garden Setting

Students will rewrite the narration and point of view of various texts.

Shifting Points of View

Read this creepy story about a mythological creature called a korrigan, then answer the comprehension questions at the end.

The Korrigan

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements.  Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

Analyzing Elements of Fiction: Poetry

Children practice comparing and contrasting characters in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Characters from Two Fiction Texts

How many similies can you find in this Christmas poem? Get into the holiday spirit with a holiday classic, "The Night Before Christmas"!

Christmas Similes

With this storyboard, students will draw and write about events in a chronological order.

Storyboard Summary

Embark on an adventure through the woods with the Mole, in this excerpt from Kenneth Grahame's charming book, The Wind in the Willows.

Reading: The Wind in the Willows

Understanding who is telling the story is an important skill for young readers. Use this resource with your students to practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

Point of View: An Interesting Discovery

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Stop & Jot Sticky Note Sequencing

Learn all about the biography genre, including autobiography and journalism, and read some classic excerpts from its famous authors.

What is Biography?

Use this handy story map to help students organize the events and lessons in the fables and folktales they read.

 Fable & Folktale Story Map

Science fiction is a hugely popular genre of books, movies and TV shows. Read this worksheet to get a taste of some of the originators of sci-fi.

What is Science Fiction?

Give your students practice with Reader’s Theater in the wonderful genre of drama. They will read and practice fluency, as well as comprehension.

Reader’s Theater: Summertime Blues

In this first-person narrative, a child looks forward to a first camping trip.

My Vacation (Part One)

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