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

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.

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 students practice reading fluently with this passage with exactly 100 words.

The Ant and the Grasshopper is a fable that teaches kids the value of hard work. Kids will focus on comprehension and predictions in this worksheet.

Give your second graders some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the timeless story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Students will read this classic fable and then answer questions about setting, characters, genre, and cause and effect.

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

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

What's the main idea? Help your child review reading comprehension questions like this with this at-home practice test.

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

Help your child understand cause and effect with this practice sheet.

Practice those reading skills with the story of "The Three Little Pigs"! This classic tale provides a great starter for reading comprehension.

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.

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

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.

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

This worksheet, inspired by New Year’s resolutions, can be used any 30 days of the year! Use the worksheet, Resolve to Read, to reignite a love of reading in your learner.

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.

Reading has so many benefits for kids, such as improving vocabulary and language skills and helping to develop imagination and concentration. Reading logs are a great way for you and your students to keep track of their reading throughout the week!

Use this fun story rollercoaster template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them consider these who, what, where, why, and how questions as they relate to the plot.

Kids read a story about a puppy, then finish it by writing what they think will happen next.

Get ready to make predictions! Students read a short text independently, then draw and write about what they think will happen next.

The Ant and the Grasshopper story cards help your visual learner understand what happens in the classic fable. Kids arrange picture cards to tell the story.

Ready, set, spell! Use this worksheet to gauge your students’ familiarity with common second grade spelling patterns.

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.