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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Close Reading Strategy.

This template encourages thoughtful, engaged reading as children practice making predictions as they go.

Bring it back to the basics with this reading comprehension exercise about Mindy, her birthday party, and her cake.

Use this resource to practice close reading in a fictional text. Your students will look at the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs that give more details about the important story elements.

Children practice connecting cause to effect in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Learners will practice identifying the problem and solution in texts in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Learners will practice identifying the problem and solution in texts in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

Help your third grader practice following directions on how to build a tornado in a bottle, and build his reading comprehension skills in the process.

Explore a classic poem filled with imagination and wordplay with this third- and fourth-grade reading worksheet!

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

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.

After your students finish reading this story about Leo and how he overcomes his soccer injury, they will answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about the text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Understanding the relationship of cause and effect is a cornerstone of strong reading comprehension skills. Students will seek to explain why events happened in a book of their choosing in this cause and effect activity.

Your third graders will love reading this story about Mike, his friends, the kickball game, and the runaway ball! Use this resource with your students as they answer basic comprehension questions about a fiction text.

Make reading fun with this whale of a tale, "How the Whale Got His Throat," by Rudyard Kipling!

Get your third grader in the habit of reading closely with this multi-page story featuring questions on the main character, sequencing, and recalling details.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Students will answer who, what, when, where, when, why, and how questions after reading a story by Rudyard Kipling.