1st - 5th Grade Common Core Reading Comprehension Educational Resources : Page 4

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

If someone loses their glasses, are they as blind as a bee or a bat? This fill-in-the-blank worksheet introduces your child to popular similes.

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

Practice analyzing poetry with one of Emily Dickinson’s most popular poems!

Children read a brief history of fireworks, then answer a series of questions designed to help them reflect on what they have learned.

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.

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

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

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.

Get to know astronaut Mae Jemison in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from the Grimm Brothers' "The Golden Bird."

Introduce your little reader to some classic childhood literature, with Rudyard Kipling's charming story "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

If you think volcanoes are cool, this worksheet will blow your mind! Learn about the rock cycle by reading the paragraph and taking a multiple choice quiz.

The Underground Railroad helped thousands of enslaved Americans find freedom. In this worksheet, your student will learn about this historic network.

Dive into the sea life of Monterey, California, with this third-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

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

In Blarney: A Game of Deception, children learn about the legend of the Blarney Stone, along with the rules for a fun game where they must decide which player is lying!

In this Reader's Theater worksheet, students read a script, then answer the reading comprehension questions that follow.

Little gardeners, get to know your plants! See the cycle of a plant from its birth to adulthood, and read a bit about photosynthesis too.

Learn about the human brain with this zombie-themed science worksheet!

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.

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

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Help your child practice reading a map and using the cardinal directions. See if she can interpret the different parts of a map.

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.

Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify the author’s purpose.

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