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2nd and 3rd Grade Common Core Comprehension Questions Worksheets : Page 5

What happened in the story? Use this helpful graphic organizer to capture the characters, setting, and important events in a fiction text.

Who, What, Where 

Use this resource to closely read a nonfiction text, come up with questions, and use text evidence to find the answers.

Close Reading: Questions & Answers

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s <em>The One and Only Ivan</em>.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #2

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts using this helpful Venn diagram.

Nonfiction Compare & Contrast

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.

Compare and Contrast Fictional Stories: First Day at the New School

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

Summary with Time Order Words

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

Native American Tribes: Mohawk

Encourage thoughtful media consumption with this set of television show comprehension questions.

Television Show Comprehension Questions

Young readers can discover the history of the Choctaw Native American tribe with this history worksheet.

Native American Tribes: Choctaw

Use this awesome story mountain template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. Students will use this activity to organize their thoughts about the beginning, problem, climax, solution, and ending of a story.

Story Mountain

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!

Fact or Opinion: Howler Monkeys

Maximize what your students learn from reading nonfiction by having them fill out a KWL chart before and after reading.

Nonfiction KWL Chart

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun language and vocabulary worksheet.

Examples of Hyperbole! Part 2

Ask students questions about  "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer to develop their reading comprehension skills.

Narrative Poem: Casey at the Bat

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

Where's the Evidence?

Ancient mariners mistook the manatee for a mermaid! Your young biologist won't make the same mistake after learning about the manatee with this worksheet.

Manatee Facts

This tree anatomy worksheet will give your little naturalist a better understanding of the parts that make up a tree.

Tree Parts

Your students will love learning all about this fascinating historical figure while also practicing reading comprehension and reading response skills.

Amelia Earhart Reading Response

Students will read and recall a story by answering comprehensive questions about the series of the events in the story.

The Shiniest Apple: Cause & Effect

It's important for students to understand how characters and the storyline are interconnected. Help your students break down individual character responses to major story events with this graphic organizer.

Character Reactions

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

Make Your Own Inferences 2

Young readers practice close reading as they learn about black bears in this literacy worksheet.

Color Coding Nonfiction Text: Bears

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

Ideas of The Harlem Renaissance

Students will answer who, what, when, where, when, why, and how questions after reading a story by Rudyard Kipling.

Reading Comprehension: How the First Letter Was Written

Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!

George Washington, a Man of Firsts

With this worksheet, your students will connect the key ideas of this nonfiction text and identify the cause and effect relationships.

Cause and Effect: The Industrial Revolution

Learners get a brief introduction to the capital of the United States in this worksheet.

The Nation's Capital: Washington, D.C.

In Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far), third and fourth graders reference a timeline of Sotomayor's life to answer questions about her life.

Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far)

Help the Smith family summarize their family vacation with a main idea, details, and a conclusion. Kids will work on reading comprehension and summarizing.

Story Order: Case 2

Provide your students support as they work on improving their reading comprehension skills by creating a nonfiction text summary.

Nonfiction Text Summary Template

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