2nd and 3rd Grade Reading Resources : Page 2

Children follow along the incredible life story of Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery to rescue hundreds of other enslaved people.

Children learn about the ways that butterflies like the viceroy and buckeye avoid predators in this engaging reading comprehension worksheet.

Track important events in the life of an important woman with this Sojourner Truth timeline, a great way to get used to reading and writing nonfiction.

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

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

Help your budding reader learn how to spice up a boring biography by asking him to add in the details that make good writing even better.

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

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

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

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

Get to know pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson in this reading comprehension worksheet!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learners will practice identifying the main idea and supporting in works of nonfiction texts as they learn about the ocean.

Learners will practice analyzing a short script in this winter-themed reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Children learn the inspiring life story of historical hero Frederick Douglass, who rose from slavery to become a preeminent leader of the abolitionist movement, in this 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.

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.

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

Use this nonfiction comprehension worksheet to help second and third graders learn all about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre.

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

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 resource with your students as they identify the different ways a character tries to solve a problem.

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