Use these task cards with your students to practice reading short passages and making inferences about character, setting, and plot.

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

What happens next? In this worksheet, learners will read a short fictional passage, then write and draw what they think will happen next.

Help your student with reading comprehension, and enjoy a favorite short story by Rudyard Kipling, about a King, a Queen and two quarreling butterflies.

Read this sweet poem by A.A. Milne, then answer a few short reading comprehension questions.

Who is telling the story? Words like I, me, she, and he can help figure this out! Use this exercise with your students to practice determining who is telling the story.

In this fiction comprehension exercise, your students will use transition words to help them write about the problem and solution in three short stories.

Children will use six question words — who, what, when, where, why, and how — to identify the problem and solution in a short passage.

Students will read a short biography of Keller, then answer a thoughtful prompt designed to help them reflect on what they have read.

Mary Lou Retton tumbled into America's heart in the 1988 Olympics. Read about her Olympic victories in this worksheet, then complete a short reading exercise.

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

Make reading time fun, with this classic short story by Rudyard Kipling. Then, complete a few comprehension activities on "How the Alphabet Was Made."

If your kid is crazy for castles and knights, have her read Eleanor's biography in this worksheet. Enhance her reading skills with a short comprehension quiz.

In this exercise, EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Get your third grader in the habit of reading deeper by encouraging him to think about what's going on in this short story and why.

Enjoy a classic Aesop's fable, retold through a short collection of coloring pages! Your child will love reading this funny story as she colors.

Students read a two-page adaptation of the classic short story “The Open Window” by Saki and answer key reading comprehension 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.