3rd and 4th Grade Comprehension Questions Worksheets

Reinforce reading comprehension skills with this simple practice quiz!

Children will be inspired by the many ways dogs help their human companions in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

Students will learn fun facts about animals while making inferences about nonfiction text.

In this worksheet, children discover what plastic is, how it is manufactured, as well as its history and about attempts to reduce plastic waste.

Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about soul music and the history of African-Americans in pop music, all in this Hip-Hop Music worksheet!

Help your third grader practice following directions on how to build a tornado in a bottle, and build his reading comprehension skills in the process.

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Children learn how the internet travels across the ocean through cables to create a giant, global information network in this engaging, hands-on worksheet.

In this fascinating worksheet, children learn about the history of chocolate, from its ancient ceremonial use to the invention of the chocolate candy bar.

Learners will practice identifying the theme of a story by reading a short passage and answering four comprehension questions.

Children read a brief history of fireworks, then answer a series of questions designed to help them reflect on what they have learned.

In this reading fluency worksheet, second and third graders read a story about a sleepy sloth, then answer simple reading comprehension questions.

Introduce your little reader to some classic childhood literature, with Rudyard Kipling's charming story "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

In this worksheet, children learn about the role art plays in the celebration and messaging of Earth Day, which begain in 1970 to heighten awarness of environmental crises around the world.

Use this reading passage to practice reading comprehension with your learners.

Here's a worksheet that's great for improving reading comprehension skills. Kids read a simple story about a girl and her kitten then answer the question below.

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.

Your students will read two short stories, then compare and contrast the characters, problems, solutions, and themes with the help of a graphic organizer.

Use this reading worksheet to help second and third graders learn about the inspiring work of Jane Goodall, famous scientist and conservationist.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Children learn about the Moon, then practice finding and writing the main idea, in this literacy worksheet.

Children are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.

Children will discover more about the culinary history of early Americans as they practice practice identifying the main idea and supporting details.

Get your students to ask, “Why did that happen?” Support them as they make connections between key ideas in a nonfiction text about thunderstorms.

This comprehensive exercise will introduce your students to twelve elements of poetry and six types of poems.

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.