2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Resources : Page 4

Give your young readers some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the beloved story of The Three Little Pigs! Students will consider protagonists, antagonists, and character dynamics with this version of the classic story.

The class watched an exciting movie about a castle adventure. But now the students need help recalling the details of the film.

This worksheet provides students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. After reading and completing Part 1 as a class, challenge your students to complete Part 2 on their own or with a pa

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

Your students will love learning all about this fascinating historical figure while also practicing reading comprehension and reading response skills.

Children learn about the life of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, in this timeline activity.

Read about how the capybara live and other interesting facts about capybara. Sure to satisfy your curiosity about capybaras!

Encourage thoughtful media consumption with this set of television show comprehension questions.

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

Use this activity to reinforce using sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text!

Your students will love reading this classic fable as they seek to determine the author’s purpose and differentiate fiction from nonfiction.

The Ant and the Grasshopper story cards help your visual learner understand what happens in the classic fable. Kids arrange picture cards to tell the story.

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Kids will sharpen their dictionary skills with this challenging guide words sort. By sorting a group of words into their correct dictionary locations, young readers will gain confidence and dexterity in their reading and vocabulary abilities.

Your students will use an abridged version of "The Princess and the Pea" to practice analyzing and expressing character traits with the help of a word bank.

This informative and inspiring worksheet will have your students compare and contrast two athletes who have been instrumental in changing the world of women’s sports!

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

Dictionary skills are an important part of learning to read and write. Help your little learner understand the different parts of a dictionary entry.

Little readers, practice alphabetizing with this fun activity! Kids can put these scrambled words in alphabetical order to create a complete sentence.

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

Young readers dip their toes into character analysis with this fun graphic organizer.

What happens next? In this worksheet, learners will read a short fictional passage, then write and draw what they think will happen next.

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.

Use this fun story rollercoaster template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them consider these who, what, where, why, and how questions as they relate to the plot.

This tree anatomy worksheet will give your little naturalist a better understanding of the parts that make up a tree.

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Here is a fresh and fruity way to learn a bit of life science. Sit down with your little one and teach them all the different parts of an apple!