Reading Comprehension Strategies Printable Worksheets

Explore "The Secret Garden" with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Strengthen your students' reading comprehension skills with the fable, The Serpent and the Eagle.

How well do you know your country's flag? Now your child can learn about the history of the American flag with this great printable.

Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.

This main idea worksheet guides your child through reading comprehension practice. Download today to get started!

Children read a brief history of fireworks, then answer a series of questions designed to help them reflect on what they have learned.

Story sequencing will allow third graders to improve their reading comprehension by putting the sequence of events in the correct order.

This graphic organizer guides readers to complete a story map of their reading by having them record the characters, setting, problem, and solution.

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.

Help your beginning reader boost her reading comprehension by figuring out what happened next in three different story lines.

Picture comprehension is a great intro to reading comprehension! Kids will simply identify what is going on in each picture.

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.

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

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

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.

Help your third grader practice following directions on how to build a tornado in a bottle, and build his reading comprehension skills in the process.

This cause and effect worksheet opens your child up to improved critical thinking abilities. Use this cause and effect worksheet to focus on story structure.

In this worksheet, children discover what plastic is, how it is manufactured, as well as its history and about attempts to reduce plastic waste.

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

Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.

Introduce your little reader to some classic childhood literature, with Rudyard Kipling's charming story "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

In this fascinating worksheet, children learn about the history of chocolate, from its ancient ceremonial use to the invention of the chocolate candy bar.

Read this charmingly illustrated story of "The Three Little Pigs" then use the finger puppets to retell it!

Little gardeners, get to know your plants! See the cycle of a plant from its birth to adulthood, and read a bit about photosynthesis too.

This exercise gives your student practice identifying a main idea and supporting details in short texts.