Elementary School Reading Passages Interactive Worksheets

Help your third grader practice following directions on how to build a tornado in a bottle, and build his reading comprehension skills in the process.

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.

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

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

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

Your young writer can learn about poetry analysis with this worksheet on rhyme schemes, complete with excerpts by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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.

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.

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

Help your child read deeper into a story by having him practice making inferences about what happened.

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

Students will use context clues as they select the meaning of words.

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

Children put their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution to the test with this simple quiz!

Children learn about the life of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, in this timeline activity.

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Geared toward second graders, this science worksheet has young scientists read about spiders and their webs and then demonstrate their nonfiction comprehension by filling in the diagram with the correct anatomical terms.

Here is a fresh and fruity way to learn a bit of life science. Sit down with your little one and teach them all the different parts of an apple!

Your students will use this two-sided worksheet to practice distinguishing between facts and opinions. As they do, they’ll have fun learning about howler monkeys!

Children use their logic skills to look at the images and decide which of two statements describes each one best in this second grade literacy worksheet.

Kids will sharpen their dictionary skills with this challenging guide words sort. By sorting a group of words into their correct dictionary locations, young readers will gain confidence and dexterity in their reading and vocabulary abilities.

This ocean-themed worksheet helps students with their reading comprehension skills as they figure out the order in which the story goes.

In this worksheet, kids find the titles of well-loved children’s stories — and match them to the sequence of emojis that describe them.

Count the syllables in the limericks in this poetry worksheet!

Help your preschooler separate fact from fiction in this comprehension worksheet.

This worksheet teaches kids to look closely at the illustrations in fiction texts to help them comprehend the story.