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

Practice identifying elements of a story in this simple sorting activity!

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

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

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

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

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

Young readers and sports enthusiasts will have a ball practicing sequence of events in this biography of Jackie Robinson. 

Play author with this creative writing and comprehension exercise! Your child will learn all about inference, or drawing conclusions based on what they've read.

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

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.

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

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

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

Use this reading worksheet to help second and third graders learn about the inspiring work of Jane Goodall, famous scientist and conservationist.

Children learn the difference between a fact and an opinion, then decide if each of eight sentences are facts or opinions.

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

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.

Have your students practice finding the cause and effect relationships between two sentences.

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Get your students to ask, “Why did that happen?” Support them as they make connections between key ideas in a nonfiction text about thunderstorms.

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.

Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

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.

Help your child learn the "Wh words," who, what, where, why and when, with this charming story about a day at the dog park.

Learners will practice using nonfiction text features to support their understanding of a short text about the Winter Olympics.