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

Read Aesop's classic fable, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author's message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!

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.

What will you be doing on Saturday? Jamie will be on a fishing boat with her grandpa. Read all about her grandpa's boat and then answer the questions.

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

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

Help your child learn the "Wh words," who, what, where, why and when, with this charming story about a day at the dog park.

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

What happened first? Have your young reader find the beginning, middle, and end of this short story. Use the illustrations to help her picture the events.

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

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

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.

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

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

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

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

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

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

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Learners will review a definition for each type of author's purpose, then sort nine sentences according to these criteria.

Children use their logic skills to look at the images and decide which of two statements describes each one best in this second grade literacy worksheet.

Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.

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.

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.

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.

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.