Elementary School Reading Comprehension Resources : Page 4

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

Learn about the USA's three branches of government and where each one works.

Familiarize your child with Peter Pan, one of the most enduring characters of children's literature, with this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

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

What will you be doing on Saturday? Jamie will be on a fishing boat with her grandpa. Read all about her grandpa's boat and then answer the questions.

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

Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

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

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

Track important events in the life of an important woman with this Sojourner Truth timeline, a great way to get used to reading and writing nonfiction.

Introduce students to the concept of using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

As your students hunt for various text features, they’ll learn that these features provide important information about the text they’re reading!

Help your child learn the "Wh words," who, what, where, why and when, with this charming story about a day at the dog park.

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.

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.

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

Learners will practice distinguishing fact from opinion in this literacy worksheet.

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Young readers respond to the books they have completed with this versatile worksheet template.

Read this classic children's story — then stage a stick puppet performance of it!

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!

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

Students will read passages and compare the traits of two characters.

Help students appreciate the information they can get from text features!

Children follow along the incredible life story of Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery to rescue hundreds of other enslaved people.

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.