Kindergarten and 1st Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Cut and color with cats and dogs to make your own valentine! This worksheet will give your child great fine motor practice as she celebrates Valentine's Day!

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

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

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

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

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

Read this cozy poem by A.A. Milne, then answer a reading comprehension question.

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!

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

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

Read this well-loved poem, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

Read the story of the magical soup pot, then answer two reading comprehension questions.

What happened in the story? Use this helpful graphic organizer to capture the characters, setting, and important events in a fiction text.

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.

Fill in this story map to organize the details of the Jack and the Beanstalk story.

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

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

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

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 kindergarten students practice good reading habits by using this handy reading checklist.

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

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