This main idea worksheet guides your child through reading comprehension practice. Download today to get started!

Give your second grader's logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect.

Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify the author’s purpose.

Read about the history of the Winchester Mystery House, and then answer some comprehension questions.

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

Your students will demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text features, such as caption, diagram, and heading, with this helpful vocabulary worksheet.

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

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

Children learn about the food cycle in a rain forest as they color in a scene of snakes, butterflies, leopards, and other forest-dwelling creatures.

This worksheet teaches your young film buff about cool Coraline stop-motion effects.

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.

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.

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.

Practice identifying and interpreting nonfiction text features in this worksheet about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

Students will practice using pronouns to help them understand point of view.

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

Help students appreciate the information they can get from text features!

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!

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

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.

As your students hunt for various text features, they’ll learn that these features provide important information about the text they’re reading!

Read a classic fable with your beginning reader! This story page for "The Ugly Duckling" will help build reading skills.

Learners will discover seven facts about Mars, then use these and their own research to draft a work of science fiction.