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Kindergarten - 6th Grade Common Core Fiction Passages Worksheets : Page 3

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

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

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Make a Match: Reading Genres

Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.

Detecting the Author's Purpose

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

The Lion and the Mouse Fable

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

Reading for Fluency: The Jungle Book

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

Can You Spot the Main Idea?

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

Day of the Dead

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

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

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

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech&rsquo;s <em>Walk Two Moons</em> 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

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”

In this worksheet, learners will refer to illustrations to make inferences about which of two lines of text is true.

Making Inferences With Pictures

Compare and contrast your traits with the character traits of other people.

Comparing My Character Traits

After independent reading, have students record and reflect. Young readers will demonstrate their ability to summarize and respond to their reading, and a log is a fun way for them to track their progress. Make copies of this log to use again and again!

Independent Reading Log

Students will practice making inferences about the characters, setting, and events based on clues in the passage.

Can You Make an Inference?

Children read the First Amendment, then complete a simple word scramble puzzle and answer reading comprehension questions.

Learn the First Amendment

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

Students are asked to distinguish between first and third person narration as well as fiction or nonfiction writing.

First vs. Third Person Narration

Learners will review a definition for each type of author's purpose, then sort nine sentences according to these criteria.

Author’s Purpose Sort: It’s as Easy as Pie!

Read about the parts of a plot diagram, then fill out the details of a story that you have recently read in the diagram.

Diagramming the Plot of a Story

Children read a classic fable with an eye toward character analysis in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Evaluating Character Traits: The Boy Who Cried Wolf

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

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