1st Grade Common Core Comprehension Questions Educational Resources

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

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

Finding the main idea of a story is a fundamental reading comprehension skill. Help your child tackle reading with this beginner's worksheet!

Read this charmingly illustrated story of "The Three Little Pigs" then use the finger puppets to retell it!

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

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

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!

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

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

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

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.

Familiarity with different types of texts is an important part of the first grade reading curriculum. In this worksheet, kids read Christina Rossetti's famous poem, "Caterpillar" and then answer questions about what they read.

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

In this worksheet, learners will refer to illustrations to make inferences about which of two lines of text is true.

Explore story sense with your young reader. First, read the astronaut's story. Then, let your imagination tell what will happen next!

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

In this literacy worksheet, learners will read a classic fairy tale, then learn more about another character from the story.

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

This worksheet is a brief introduction to the human rights activist and feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes.

This worksheet teaches kids to look closely at the illustrations in fiction texts to help them comprehend the story.

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

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 child comprehend his reading better by using this graphic organizer. Help him fill out the story map for The Three Little Pigs.

This open-ended reading reflection journal helps students to think about the books they've read.

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.

Fairy tales are a great way to engage your students in reading! Help them determine the central message of the classic story, The Tortoise and the Hare, with this fun reading comprehension worksheet.