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.

Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

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

Ask your students to read the story about Ty's birthday, then answer the comprehension questions by retelling main events of the story on the lines provided.

Facts about ostrich include that they are the largest birds in the world and that they can't fly, but that's not all. Learn all about this amazing bird!

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.

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.

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

Students will read and recall a story by answering comprehensive questions about the series of the events in the story.

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.

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.

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.

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

Give your star reader a great way to get their thoughts organized. This star graphic organizer will help them practice basic reading comprehension.

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

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.

Get some cool facts about geckos on our reading and writing worksheet! Your little one is sure to be tickled by all the curious facts about geckos.

Review the classic American tall tales with this character map! Use your knowledge of setting in a story to show where each of these tall tales originated.

Reading nonfiction can be tricky, whether read individually or as a group. Young readers will be asked to match common text features to the correct illustrated features in this tree-themed activity.

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

Explore history with famous female navigator Sacagawea. Sacagawea was a Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark find their way across the west.

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

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

Your students will use their imaginations and context clues to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

Get to know some of the most famous larger-than-life characters from our traditional oral folklore with this tall tales worksheet!

Stretch student understanding of story sequencing into a summary with this graphic organizer. Students will start by jotting down quick notes to remember each part of the story, then they'll use their notes to write a complete summary of the text.

Meet the legendary John Henry, a famous character from a classic tall tale! Learn the difference between fact and fiction with this fun reading sheet.

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.