1st and 2nd Grade Reading Worksheets

Reinforce reading comprehension skills with this simple practice quiz!

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

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.

This worksheet helps students analyze the ways in which stories are similar and different.

Help your child understand cause and effect with this practice sheet.

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.

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

Oh no, Jack's beanstalk story is all jumbled up! Cut out the pictures and fix the story sequence to help Jack get his story straight!

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

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

Reading has so many benefits for kids, such as improving vocabulary and language skills and helping to develop imagination and concentration. Reading logs are a great way for you and your students to keep track of their reading throughout the week!

Keeping a reading log is a great way to encourage your child to set goals and track their progress. Your students will build reading fluency and stamina by logging and graphing their reading time.

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.

Help your child monitor their progress as readers with this reading goals worksheet. The act of reflecting and goal setting will set students up for reading success!

This reading stamina chart can be used to help students track and increase the amount of time they can spend reading to themselves during independent reading.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Building Fluency with Punctuation.

Give your second grader's logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect.

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

Read Aesop's classic fable, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

In this worksheet, children determine the order of events in a story about two friends who like to roller skate together in their neighborhood.

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.

Read this poem, then illustrate your favorite part!

This picture story is all mixed up! Use this worksheet to teach your students how to put plot events in order.

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

This main idea worksheet guides your child through reading comprehension practice. Download today to get started!

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

Help your students with their reading fluency using this fun worksheet.

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

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

With this Have Fun Reading Choice Board, budding bookworms can choose from a variety of engaging reading-based activities, from reading in a cozy blanket fort to drawing or acting out their favorite part of a story.