3rd - 8th Grade Reading Comprehension Resources : Page 3

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

This worksheet helps students analyze the ways in which stories are similar and different.

Introduce students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

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.

Introduce students to one of the leading figures of the United States civil rights movement with this reading comprehension worksheet all about Thurgood Marshall!

In this seventh-grade ELA worksheet, students read a fascinating informational text about the history of kites and answer comprehension questions covering a variety of reading skills. 

Get your feet wet with this one-page reading comprehension worksheet on the challenging sport of artistic swimming!

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

Discover why an odd-looking tree is known as Africa’s "tree of life" with this reading comprehension worksheet.

How is a train like a bird? Find out in this sixth-grade informational reading comprehension worksheet all about biomimicry!

This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author's point.

Young readers and sports enthusiasts will have a ball practicing sequence of events in this biography of Jackie Robinson. 

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

This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

This worksheet gives your students practice reading and analyzing informational text to explain the author’s claim and supporting reasons.

Learn about invasive species—non-native species that cause harm to native ecosystems—with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

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.

Introduce middle school readers to one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance with Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son.”

Practice analyzing poetry with one of Emily Dickinson’s most popular poems!

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.

Dig deep into the geography of Chile while practicing important informational reading comprehension skills with this middle school worksheet!

Young readers practice analyzing characters in a work of fiction with this five-page reading comprehension worksheet.

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.

Introduce students to the classic poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

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 worksheet to provide an engaging text for your students as they practice reading and analyzing an author’s claims.