Elementary School Fiction Passages Resources

Hone key reading comprehension strategies with this engaging five-page worksheet!

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.

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.

Use the templates to assemble and stage a puppet show based on the story.

Dive into the world of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" with this reading comprehension page.

Learners will practice identifying the theme of a story by reading a short passage and answering four comprehension questions.

In this engaging reading comprehension worrksheet, learners read an original two-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions.

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

Support students’ inference skills with this targeted two-page reading worksheet. 

Students will read and answer questions about the Bradley family's summer vacation. 

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

Read a classic fable with your beginning reader! This story page for "The Ugly Duckling" will help build reading skills.

This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the 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.

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

In this reading fluency worksheet, second and third graders read a story about a sleepy sloth, then answer simple reading comprehension questions.

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.

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

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.

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

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

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

Read about Pete and all of his pets in this story. 

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

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from the Grimm Brothers' "The Golden Bird."

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.