2nd - 5th Grade Reading Resources : Page 8

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

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.

Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

Give your students practice with Reader’s Theater in the wonderful genre of drama. They will read and practice fluency, as well as comprehension.

Use this civics and government worksheet to help second and third graders learn about elections!

Children use their investigative skills and powers of deduction to complete a series of questions and prompts about their local government.  

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

Children learn about Susan B. Anthony, an abolitionist and civil rights advocate best remembered for her contributions to the women's suffrage movement.

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Using this worksheet template, students plan their work by filling out a plot diagram with their story's exposition, rising action climax, falling action, and climax.

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

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

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!

Have your third grader practice their reading fluency with this passage about Autumn.

Folktales are a great way to get your child into reading, and to help them consider moral values as well!

Students will practice using dictionary guide words by matching words to the pages they would appear on.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Find presidential and historical words in this election-themed word search.

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

Dig your hands into some earth science with this soil sheet! Your little scientist can hone his reading skills as he learns what soil is and how it is formed.

Students will use an adjective word bank to help them identify statements of fact and opinion.

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Children put their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution to the test with this simple quiz!

Study the map of terrestrial biomes, then use it to answer questions.

Children learn about George Washington Carver, who rose from slavery to become a leading agricultural pioneer, innovator, inventor, and educator, in this historical heroes worksheet.

Children learn about the history and legacy of Eatonville, Florida, one of the first all-black towns formed after the passage of the 13th Amendment.