2nd - 4th Grade Reading Resources : Page 3

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

Here's a worksheet that's great for improving reading comprehension skills. Kids read a simple story about a girl and her kitten then answer the question below.

Young readers practice analyzing characters in a work of fiction with this five-page reading comprehension worksheet.

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.

This worksheet offers an engaging, meaningful framework for young writers as they learn to build and write compelling arguments.

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

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

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

This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author's point.

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.

Students are asked to distinguish between first and third person narration as well as fiction or nonfiction writing.

Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt, the groundbreaking first lady known for her humanitarian work and for being the first U.S.delegate to the United Nations in 1942.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of jazz music, and the history of African-Americans in pop music.

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

Differentiating between facts and opinions is a key fourth grade skill to master and is helpful in identifying the author’s purpose in a text. Use this activity to give your students extra practice differentiating between these two kinds of sentence

Children learn about Madam C.J. Walker, the first woman to become a self-made millionaire in the United States, in this Finding the Main Idea worksheet.

Children learn about the Moon, then practice finding and writing the main idea, in this literacy worksheet.

Students will rewrite the narration and point of view of various texts.

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.”