Common Core Reading Worksheets : Page 4

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

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

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

Learn about invasive species—non-native species that cause harm to native ecosystems—with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

Children learn about Madam C.J. Walker, the first woman to become a self-made millionaire in the United States, in this Finding the Main Idea worksheet.

Here's a worksheet that's great for improving reading comprehension skills. Kids read a simple story about a girl and her kitten then answer the question below.

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

Celebrate the contributions of famous Irish Americans with this worksheet. Read a bit about each famous figure and complete a comprehension exercise.

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

Oh no, Jack's beanstalk story is all jumbled up! Cut out the pictures and fix the story sequence to help Jack get his story straight!

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

This worksheet offers an engaging, meaningful framework for young writers as they learn to build and write compelling arguments.

Get to know astronaut Mae Jemison in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!

Introduce learners to the American advocate Dorothea Dix with this three-page informational reading comprehension worksheet.

In this seventh-grade ELA worksheet, students read a fascinating informational text about the history of kites and answer comprehension questions covering a variety of reading skills. 

Children learn about the Moon, then practice finding and writing the main idea, in this literacy worksheet.

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.

Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

Have your students practice finding the cause and effect relationships between two sentences.

Get your feet wet with this one-page reading comprehension worksheet on the challenging sport of artistic swimming!

Compare and contrast two scenes from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Introduce readers to the poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

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

Discover why an odd-looking tree is known as Africa’s "tree of life" with this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Young readers practice analyzing characters in a work of fiction with this five-page reading comprehension worksheet.

This four-page worksheet gives students a chance to engage deeply with a rigorous nonfiction text about government funding for space exploration.

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Meet the curious mongoose Rikki-tikki-tavi in this sixth-grade reading comprehension worksheet adapted from the classic Rudyard Kipling tale.

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.