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Kindergarten - 6th Grade Common Core Reading Comprehension Worksheets : Page 6

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Can You Spot the Main Idea?

This worksheet helps your child focus on prediction and comprehension in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Kids will read the classic fable and answer written prompts.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf Prediction and Comprehension

Introduce students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Informational Reading Comprehension: Biography of Althea Gibson

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

Day of the Dead

As your students hunt for various text features, they’ll learn that these features provide important information about the text they’re reading!

Search for Nonfiction Text Features

Learners will practice distinguishing fact from opinion in this literacy worksheet.

Identifying Fact and Opinion

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

Children will discover more about the culinary history of early Americans as they practice practice identifying the main idea and supporting details.

Find the Main Idea: Native American Foods

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Find the Main Idea: Elephant

Readers will delight in this first (worst) day of school story, and practice cause and effect with this funny worksheet.

First Day of School: Cause and Effect

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

Children keep track of their weekday reading with this useful two-page template.

Fourth Grade Reading Log

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

Simple Fiction Summary

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device! 

Author’s Purpose: Multiple Choice

This short nonfiction text will teach students about the ocean, and includes questions to help students identify the author’s point of view and purpose for writing the text by focusing on important vocabulary words that support the main idea.

The Ocean

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

Pronouns & Point of View

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of jazz music, and the history of African-Americans in pop music.

History of Jazz

Introduce students to the concept of using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

Quotes as Evidence #1

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Writing Workout: Supporting the Main Idea

Students will use context clues as they select the meaning of words.

Look Around! Using Context Clues

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.

The Aspirations of Sonia Sotomayor 

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Answering Questions About Wild, Wild Weather

Children learn the difference between a fact and an opinion, then decide if each of eight sentences are facts or opinions.

Fact or Opinion? You Decide!

Before reading Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan&rsquo;s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story&#39;s setting!

Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Pre-Reading Activity

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #4

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech&rsquo;s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Cause and Effect in Walk Two Moons

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

Cause and Effect for Kids

Children put their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution to the test with this simple quiz!

Amendments Quiz

Learners will practice identifying the problem and solution in texts in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Reading Comprehension: Problem and Solution 1

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