Common Core Reading Resources

Children will be inspired by the many ways dogs help their human companions in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

Explore the many ways people around the world embrace winter in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Introduce children to Italian Christmas traditions with this reading comprehension worksheet!

The Nutcracker story tells the tale of a girl who discovers some Christmas magic. Color in The Nutcracker story with your child and make your own holiday book.

In Reading Comprehension: The Adventure Begins, learners will read an engaging one-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions about the text. 

Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.

Use this worksheet to help your child learn a little bit about the North Pole!

Students will learn fun facts about animals while making inferences about nonfiction text.

Story sequencing will allow third graders to improve their reading comprehension by putting the sequence of events in the correct order.

As your students complete this reading comprehension exercise, they will learn about their lungs while practicing active reading skills.

Learn all about The Mayflower, the famous ship the Pilgrims made their great journey in.

Practice analyzing figurative language in context with this excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s classic fantasy novel, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe!

Read up on the real-life Saint Nicholas, a man who did some good deeds way back in the day, and see what similarities he shares with Santa.

If you're good in Mexico, the Three Wise Men might come on Christmas Day and leave you candy and money!

Readers practice identifying the main idea in works of nonfiction in this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Have you ever heard of Julbock, the Christmas goat, or Tomten, the gift-giving Christmas elf? Learn how to celebrate Christmas in Sweden!

Students will read an excerpt from the classic adventure story White Fang by Jack London before answering comprehension questions about the text.

Learn all about the fascinating field of food science in this four-page informational reading comprehension worksheet!

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.

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.

Students will make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Picture comprehension is a great intro to reading comprehension! Kids will simply identify what is going on in each picture.

Finding the main idea of a story is a fundamental reading comprehension skill. Help your child tackle reading with this beginner's worksheet!

In this worksheet, second and third graders will practice two important reading fluency strategies: rereading and rereading aloud.

The main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph. With this worksheet, students will read the paragraphs carefully then circle the statement that best fits the paragraph's main idea.

Help your beginning reader boost her reading comprehension by figuring out what happened next in three different story lines.

Pretend you're spending the holidays in France as you discover the Christmas customs and culinary delights of a country half a world away!