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4th - 8th Grade Common Core Fiction Passages Worksheets : Page 2

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

Write a Simple Summary

Get in the spooky spirit of Halloween with our vocab-packed copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

The Raven

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

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

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

Comparing Two Stories

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

Story Map

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

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

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Making Inferences in a Fictional Text

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

Character Emotion Match Cards

In this exercise, students will work through a series of steps to identify the theme of a classic story.

Rudyard Kipling: What's the Theme?

Students compare and contrast two fables in this eighth-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Reading Comprehension: “King Chameleon and the Animals” and “The Hare and the Tortoise”

Hone reading comprehension and analysis skills with this worksheet featuring a French fairy tale about a prince, a curse, and the importance of recognizing one&#39;s own flaws.

Extended Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From “Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess”

Young readers respond to the books they have completed with this versatile worksheet template. 

Reading Response Journal

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

Reading for Fluency: The Jungle Book

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

Point of View

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

Dialogue and Actions to Show Character Traits

Young readers practice identifying the theme of a story in this thoughtful fable about two friends who find gold in the forest.

Think About Theme: The Golden Nugget

Practice analyzing point of view and perspective with this relatable excerpt from Sharon Creech&rsquo;s Walk Two Moons.

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Point of View and Perspective in Walk Two Moons

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.

Reading for Fluency: Through the Looking-Glass

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Two Fiction Texts

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 #2

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

Compare the Fairy Tales

Unravel a classic story from Greek mythology with this two-page reading comprehension worksheet for seventh and eighth-grade learners!

Reading Comprehension: Arachne and the Weaving Contest

Read a one-page adaptation of the Japanese myth, &ldquo;The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child&rdquo; and answer a variety of eighth-grade comprehension questions!

Reading Comprehension: The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child

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

Detecting the Author's Purpose

Students will practice using pronouns to support their understanding of point of view.

Pronouns & Point of View

Use this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott&rsquo;s classic novel Little Women to help your middle schooler analyze plot development!

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Plot Development in Little Women

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Simple Fiction Summary

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.

Close Reading Annotations

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

Fiction Summaries:  Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then

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4th - 8th Grade Common Core Fiction Passages Worksheets : Page 2

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