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!

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

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

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

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

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

Fill in the New Year's Eve story with pictures instead of words.

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

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

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

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

If you're good in Mexico, the Three Wise Men might come on Christmas Day and leave you candy and money!

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

Three full days of Christmas celebration? The holidays season is pretty amazing in Germany!

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

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.

Have you ever heard of Julbock, the Christmas goat, or Tomten, the gift-giving Christmas elf? Learn how to celebrate Christmas in Sweden!

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

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!

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.

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

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

Share a classic Christmas poem with your little one. They'll get to color illustrations to The Night Before Christmas as she reads along!

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

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

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

There's nothing better than a mug of hot chocolate! Your child can work on their writing skills as they describe how to make a great cup of cocoa.