Elementary School Fiction Passages Resources

Hone key reading comprehension strategies with this engaging five-page 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.

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

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

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Children to identify the theme of a story from the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of Indian animal fables.

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

This comprehensive exercise will introduce your students to twelve elements of poetry and six types of poems.

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