2nd and 3rd Grade Reading Comprehension Resources : Page 2

Learners will practice using nonfiction text features to support their understanding of a short text about the Winter Olympics.

Use this reading passage to practice reading comprehension with your learners.

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

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

With this Have Fun Reading Choice Board, budding bookworms can choose from a variety of engaging reading-based activities, from reading in a cozy blanket fort to drawing or acting out their favorite part of a story.

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

Get your students to ask, “Why did that happen?” Support them as they make connections between key ideas in a nonfiction text about thunderstorms.

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

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

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

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.

In this Martin Luther King Jr. Cut-and-Paste Timeline worksheet, students will learn about the life of an important historical figure.

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

Children learn about the life and legacy of civil rights activist Rosa Parks in this history worksheet.

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

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

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

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.

Use this resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about a major historical event. Students will read a passage about the Tsunami of 2004 and determine the author’s viewpoint as they establish the

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

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

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

From the topic of roller coasters to the topic of spinach, this kid-friendly worksheet guides a student in comparing their opinion to the opinions of the fictional character named “Jimmy.”

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

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

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