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.

Students will read and answer questions about the Bradley family's summer vacation. 

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.

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

In this reading fluency worksheet, second and third graders read a story about a sleepy sloth, then answer simple reading comprehension questions.

Read about Pete and all of his pets in this story. 

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author's message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!

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

Play author with this creative writing and comprehension exercise! Your child will learn all about inference, or drawing conclusions based on what they've read.

What will you be doing on Saturday? Jamie will be on a fishing boat with her grandpa. Read all about her grandpa's boat and then answer the questions.

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.

This worksheet practices story sequencing, an essential reading comprehension skill for first graders.

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

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

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.

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

Build comprehension skills with this reading page on cause and effect for kids.