2nd and 3rd Grade Reading Resources : Page 5

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

Teach your little leprechaun about the various St. Patrick's Day traditions and other fun parts of this special Irish heritage day.

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

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device!

This cause and effect worksheet opens your child up to improved critical thinking abilities. Use this cause and effect worksheet to focus on story structure.

Story webs organize a story into one main idea and several details. Help your second grader read the story, then analyze it using the story web.

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Get to know the White House and the U.S. Capitol in this social studies matching worksheet!

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

Does your little learner have a tough time paying attention? Give him a fun activity where he'll practice following directions in order to solve a riddle.

Introduce children to Italian Christmas traditions with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Get geared up for the Olympics with this fun reading worksheet about the first modern Olympic games, held in -- where else? -- Greece in 1896.

This excerpt has exactly 100 words and is great reading practice for your little quaterbacks!

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

In this historical heroes worksheet, children are introduced to Booker T. Washington, who rose from slavery to help found Tuskegee University and advocate for the educational and civl rights of fellow African Americans.

Introduce second and third graders to W.E.B. Du Bois, writer, sociologist, and civil rights advocate, with this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

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

Good readers decode words as they read, giving them an ability to read fluently. Use this resource with your students to practice decoding by focusing on the beginning and end sounds in a word.

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Get your third grader familiar with basic poetry vocabulary in this diagram worksheet

Reading has so many benefits for kids, such as improving vocabulary and language skills and helping to develop imagination and concentration. Reading logs are a great way for you and your students to keep track of their reading throughout the week!

This worksheet helps your child focus on prediction and comprehension in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Kids will read the classic fable and answer written prompts.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

Students will practice using dictionary guide words by matching words to the pages they would appear on.

Use this high-interest text with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject of the Titanic as they establish their own points of view.

Students will practice making inferences about the characters, setting, and events based on clues in the passage.