This passage will challenge your 3rd graders to think deeper into the text to strengthen their comprehension skills.

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

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.

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

Learners will practice identifying the main idea and supporting in works of nonfiction texts as they learn about the ocean.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

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

Read the story of the magical soup pot, then answer two reading comprehension questions.

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

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

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.

Get your third grader in the habit of reading closely with this multi-page story featuring questions on the main character, sequencing, and recalling details.

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

Geared toward second graders, this science worksheet has young scientists read about spiders and their webs and then demonstrate their nonfiction comprehension by filling in the diagram with the correct anatomical terms.

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

This nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet is a fun, approachable way for students to practice identifying key ideas from nonfiction texts.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

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.

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

Your students will read two short stories, then compare and contrast the characters, problems, solutions, and themes with the help of a graphic organizer.

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

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

In this Reader's Theater worksheet, students read a script, then answer the reading comprehension questions that follow.

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

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

Story webs organize a story into one main idea and several details. Help your second grader read the story, then analyze it using the story web.

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.