Kindergarten and 1st Grade Reading Worksheets

Picture comprehension is a great intro to reading comprehension! Kids will simply identify what is going on in each picture.

Read this poem, then illustrate your favorite part!

Use the templates to assemble and stage a puppet show based on the story.

Help your beginning reader boost her reading comprehension by figuring out what happened next in three different story lines.

This picture story is all mixed up! Use this worksheet to teach your students how to put plot events in order.

Bring the zoo to your home with this adjective identification worksheet!

Have students practice their sequencing skills as they put the story in the correct order.

Help your students with their reading fluency using this fun worksheet.

Read Aesop's classic fable, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

Ask students to read an interesting biography about Dr. Mae Jemison and then answer questions about the text!

This nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet is a fun, approachable way for students to practice identifying key ideas from nonfiction texts.

Read a classic fable with your beginning reader! This story page for "The Ugly Duckling" will help build reading skills.

Help your child understand cause and effect with this practice sheet.

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

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

This worksheet practices story sequencing, an essential reading comprehension skill for first graders.

Read this classic children's story — then stage a stick puppet performance of it!

Oh no, Jack's beanstalk story is all jumbled up! Cut out the pictures and fix the story sequence to help Jack get his story straight!

Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.

Children learn the difference between a fact and an opinion, then decide if each of eight sentences are facts or opinions.

Kindergarteners and first graders will read a simple story, then identify the picture that matches, in this early literacy worksheet.

Read this charmingly illustrated story of "The Three Little Pigs" then use the finger puppets to retell it!

Does your little learner have a tough time paying attention? Give him a fun activity where he'll practice following directions in order to solve a riddle.

Help your child read deeper into a story by having him practice making inferences about what happened.

Introduce young learners to the inspiring story of Katherine Johnson, a barrier-breaking NASA mathematician, with this engaging mini book activity.

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

Build comprehension skills with this reading page on cause and effect for kids.

Read this Mother Goose's Treasury classic, then answer the reading comprehension questions.

This worksheet is a brief introduction to the human rights activist and feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes.

In Aesop's classic fable, a tortoise and a hare race — but the winner may surprise you!