3rd - 5th Grade Common Core Reading Comprehension Resources

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.

Story sequencing will allow third graders to improve their reading comprehension by putting the sequence of events in the correct order.

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!

The main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph. With this worksheet, students will read the paragraphs carefully then circle the statement that best fits the paragraph's main idea.

Hone key reading comprehension strategies with this engaging five-page worksheet!

Readers practice identifying the main idea in works of nonfiction in this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Students will make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Children will practice using nonfiction text features as they read and interpret a passage about extreme weather.

In this worksheet, students will read about Anne Frank, then complete a chart identifying cause and effect.

As your students complete this reading comprehension exercise, they will learn about their lungs while practicing active reading skills.

In this engaging reading comprehension worrksheet, learners read an original two-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions.

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.

Finding the main idea of a story is a fundamental reading comprehension skill. Help your child tackle reading with this beginner's worksheet!

Students will practice using pronouns to help them understand point of view.

Your students will demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text features, such as caption, diagram, and heading, with this helpful vocabulary worksheet.

In this worksheet, children read Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Snowdrop, reimagined here as a drama.

This graphic organizer helps your students examine descriptive adjectives and nouns.

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

In this worksheet, children determine the order of events in a story about two friends who like to roller skate together in their neighborhood.

Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify the author’s purpose.

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

Develop reading comprehension with this video game passage. Ask your students to read the excerpt, then answer questions about the main ideas and details.

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

Practice identifying and interpreting nonfiction text features in this worksheet about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Children learn about the ways that butterflies like the viceroy and buckeye avoid predators in this engaging reading comprehension worksheet.