Finding the main idea of a story is a fundamental reading comprehension skill. Help your child tackle reading with this beginner's worksheet!

Identify three facts from a work of nonfiction, then draw a picture and write a caption for each.

In this historical heroes worksheet, children are introduced to Booker T. Washington, who rose from slavery to help found Tuskegee University and advocate for the educational and civl rights of fellow African Americans.

Readers practice analyzing a character in a work of fiction as they read a passage from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Use this resource to help your students familiarize themselves with the concept of literary themes.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Support your students in using introductory phrases to cite the text as they make inferences.

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

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

Kids will practice listening and speaking skills in this interactive vocabulary activity. Students will pair up and take turns responding to questions about difficult words they've encountered and what they learned by using context clues and a dictionary.

Read about the earth's coldest land biome, the tundra, then fill in the blanks to review what you've learned.

Read about Pete and all of his pets in this story. 

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

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

Use this exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

Travel to the Land of the Munchkins in this Wizard of Oz worksheet, which focuses on story details and setting.

Learners practice comparing two stories with similar characters and themes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Children will practice using nonfiction text features as they read and interpret a passage about extreme weather.

Learners will practice using nonfiction text features to support their understanding of a short text about the Winter Olympics.

Give your child the tools to decide the difference between fact and opinion with this fun and simple exercise. In this worksheet, children will identify which statements can be proven to be true and which are based on a personal view.

How did our society become so advanced? Introduce your student to the Industrial Revolution with this reading sheet.

Young readers will refer to a passage from The Secret Garden to answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

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

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

During this reading exercise, students will work in small groups to look at various sample passages and sort them based on firsthand or secondhand accounts.

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

Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.

Learners will practice identifying the theme of a story by reading a short passage and answering four comprehension questions.

Children practice connecting cause to effect in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Introduce your student to an endangered species, Przewalski's horse, with this information sheet. They can color the illustration as they read.