2nd and 3rd Grade Comprehension Questions Worksheets

Reinforce reading comprehension skills with this simple practice quiz!

Children will be inspired by the many ways dogs help their human companions in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

In this worksheet, children discover what plastic is, how it is manufactured, as well as its history and about attempts to reduce plastic waste.

Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.

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

Help your third grader practice following directions on how to build a tornado in a bottle, and build his reading comprehension skills in the process.

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

Stories are a fantastic way to teach kids important life lessons. This reading comprehension worksheet uses the classic Aesop’s fable—The Fox and the Crow—to get your students thinking about the central lesson of a story.

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

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

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

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.

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

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.

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.

Use this reading worksheet to help second and third graders learn about the inspiring work of Jane Goodall, famous scientist and conservationist.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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.

This short nonfiction text will teach students about the ocean, and includes questions to help students identify the author’s point of view and purpose for writing the text by focusing on important vocabulary words that support the main idea.

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