2nd and 3rd Grade Reading Comprehension Resources : Page 8

Use this activity to reinforce using sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text!

Children practice comparing and contrasting characters in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this Reader’s Theater Script to engage your students as they practice reading fluently.

Your students will love reading this classic fable as they seek to determine the author’s purpose and differentiate fiction from nonfiction.

This exercise will give your students practice reading a text, making a prediction, and citing text evidence to support it. They will use introductory phrases as they complete sentence frames to create strong evidence-based sentences.

The Ant and the Grasshopper story cards help your visual learner understand what happens in the classic fable. Kids arrange picture cards to tell the story.

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.

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.

Kids will sharpen their dictionary skills with this challenging guide words sort. By sorting a group of words into their correct dictionary locations, young readers will gain confidence and dexterity in their reading and vocabulary abilities.

Your students will use an abridged version of "The Princess and the Pea" to practice analyzing and expressing character traits with the help of a word bank.

This informative and inspiring worksheet will have your students compare and contrast two athletes who have been instrumental in changing the world of women’s sports!

Use this exercise to give your students practice gaining information from both the text and the text features. Help your learners build a foundation of comprehension when reading nonfiction text.

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

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

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!

Dictionary skills are an important part of learning to read and write. Help your little learner understand the different parts of a dictionary entry.

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

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

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

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

Children learn about George Washington Carver, who rose from slavery to become a leading agricultural pioneer, innovator, inventor, and educator, in this historical heroes worksheet.

Use this resource to practice describing characters in a fairy tale. Students will use adverbs, adjectives, and verbs to gain an understanding of the character traits.

Help your student with reading comprehension, and enjoy a favorite short story by Rudyard Kipling, about a King, a Queen and two quarreling butterflies.

Your young historian can explore the Mohawk tribe. This Native American group played an important role in American history.

Young readers dip their toes into character analysis with this fun graphic organizer.

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

What happens next? In this worksheet, learners will read a short fictional passage, then write and draw what they think will happen next.