2nd - 8th Grade Common Core Reading Comprehension Educational Resources

Explore the many ways people around the world embrace winter in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Help students learn and remember key types of figurative language with this convenient handout!

Students hone their language and grammar skills with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Learn about the foundational process of American democracy in this essential worksheet!

Practice analyzing figurative language in context with this excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s classic fantasy novel, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe!

Practice identifying hyperbole with this engaging winter-themed figurative language maze!

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

What’s all the buzz about beekeeping? Give students this four-page nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet to find out!

Practice analyzing characters with this worksheet that features an excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. 

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with this worksheet featuring summer-themed similes!

Support students’ inference skills with this targeted two-page reading worksheet. 

Compare and contrast two scenes from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Introduce readers to the poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Explore a fascinating period of U.S. history with this informational reading worksheet about the Harlem Renaissance.

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

Practice analyzing point of view and perspective with this relatable excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons.

Learners will have fun honing their language and grammar skills with this fall-themed figurative language maze!

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed similes!

Introduce students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Valentine's Day-themed similes!

Introduce middle school readers to one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance with Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son.”

Learn about Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, a Chinese-American suffragist, activist, and minister of the early 20th century with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Brush up on your figurative language skills this fall season with this engaging metaphors maze!

Introduce readers to the poem “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by English poet A. E. Housman with this sixth-grade worksheet! 

Support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed metaphors!

Invite learners to practice identifying examples of hyperbole with this fun Earth Day maze!

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, summer-themed figurative language maze!