2nd and 3rd Grade Reading Resources : Page 8

Help your beginning reader learn about phonetic spellings that show how to pronounce a word. In this activity, she'll match each word with its pronunciation.

Use this resource to help your students identify and explain the problem in a passage using past tense verbs.

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

Your students will use this two-sided worksheet to practice distinguishing between facts and opinions. As they do, they’ll have fun learning about howler monkeys!

Use this resource with your students to get them making connections between two nonfiction texts on the same topic. They will use a Venn diagram to organize the similarities and differences.

Find out more about the role of rhythm in poetry with this worksheet that uses "Casey at the Bat" for practice.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this resource with your students to practice determining who is telling the story. Your students will also practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

Explore history with famous female navigator Sacagawea. Sacagawea was a Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark find their way across the west.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

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 this resource with your students to practice connecting key events in nature. They will read about the water cycle and note the steps in order that they occur.

Children learn about Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner, a record-breaking silver and gold medalist in track and field, in this sports biography worksheet.

Learn more about this amazing artist in this printable biography when studying the fine arts or Black History Month.

Kids read a story about a puppy, then finish it by writing what they think will happen next.

Little readers, practice alphabetizing with this fun activity! Kids can put these scrambled words in alphabetical order to create a complete sentence.

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

Similes are all around us—sometimes you just need a little context to know how to decipher them! This lighthearted story about a twisted ankle contains two hidden similes. Can your students find them?

Use this resource to teach your students how to use introductory phrases as they cite text evidence in their answers.

Students will read a short biography of Keller, then answer a thoughtful prompt designed to help them reflect on what they have read.

Color in this cool scene at the White House, and learn a few White House facts too!

Is your child just learning how to cook? Help her learn the fundamentals of kitchen safety with this cheat-sheet.

With this resource, give your students practice comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.