2nd - 5th Grade Reading Resources : Page 3

In this worksheet, children learn about the role art plays in the celebration and messaging of Earth Day, which begain in 1970 to heighten awarness of environmental crises around the world.

Good readers decode words as they read, giving them an ability to read fluently. Use this resource with your students to practice decoding by focusing on the beginning and end sounds in a word.

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

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

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

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

Young readers and sports enthusiasts will have a ball practicing sequence of events in this biography of Jackie Robinson. 

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 informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

This worksheet gives your students practice reading and analyzing informational text to explain the author’s claim and supporting reasons.

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.

Practice analyzing poetry with one of Emily Dickinson’s most popular poems!

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.

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

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

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Children learn the difference between a fact and an opinion, then decide if each of eight sentences are facts or opinions.

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

Children are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.

Use this worksheet to provide an engaging text for your students as they practice reading and analyzing an author’s claims.

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

Your little reader is sure to enjoy this selection from the children's classic, "The Secret Garden." Students will build their vocabulary and reading skills.

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.

Children to identify the theme of a story from the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of Indian animal fables.

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