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.

Read this cozy poem by A.A. Milne, then answer a reading comprehension question.

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.

Help your early readers get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. They'll predict what will happen and identify the moral.

Use this stop and jot reflection activity to assess reading comprehension. Your students will choose their favorite response to their reading and explain their choice.

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

Your students will demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text features, such as caption, diagram, and heading, with this helpful vocabulary worksheet.

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author's message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!

Use this reading passage to practice reading comprehension with your learners.

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

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

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.

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.

Learn the basic facts about the U.S. flag and see the different places where it's waved.

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.

This worksheet helps your child focus on prediction and comprehension in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Kids will read the classic fable and answer written prompts.

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Give your students practice with Reader’s Theater in the wonderful genre of drama. They will read and practice fluency, as well as comprehension.

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

Learn about the USA's three branches of government and where each one works.

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.

This nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet is a fun, approachable way for students to practice identifying key ideas from nonfiction texts.

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!

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

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