2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Resources : Page 2

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

Learn about the USA's three branches of government and where each one works.

What happened first? Have your young reader find the beginning, middle, and end of this short story. Use the illustrations to help her picture the events.

Get to know the White House and the U.S. Capitol in this social studies matching worksheet!

What will you be doing on Saturday? Jamie will be on a fishing boat with her grandpa. Read all about her grandpa's boat and then answer the questions.

With this Have Fun Reading Choice Board, budding bookworms can choose from a variety of engaging reading-based activities, from reading in a cozy blanket fort to drawing or acting out their favorite part of a story.

This short nonfiction text will teach students about the ocean, and includes questions to help students identify the author’s point of view and purpose for writing the text by focusing on important vocabulary words that support the main idea.

Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

Children are introduced to the life and accomplishments of aeronautics pioneer Amelia Earhart in this fascinating worksheet.

Does your little learner have a tough time paying attention? Give him a fun activity where he'll practice following directions in order to solve a riddle.

Story webs organize a story into one main idea and several details. Help your second grader read the story, then analyze it using the story web.

This worksheet helps your child focus on prediction and comprehension in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Kids will read the classic fable and answer written prompts.

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

Children learn about the life and legacy of civil rights activist Rosa Parks in this history worksheet.

In this worksheet, learners will refer to illustrations to make inferences about which of two lines of text is true.

Build comprehension skills with this reading page on cause and effect for kids.

Get to know pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson in this reading comprehension worksheet!

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!

This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the story.

Learn about facts vs. opinions in this reading comprehension worksheet. Kids will read two sets of text and decide which is fact and which is opinion.

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 fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

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

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.