Give your second grader's logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect.

Give your second graders' logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect. Students will practice determining cause and effect with this short, funny story about a wishing fountain.

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

Build reading and vocabulary skills with a fun folktale coloring series! She'll color the illustrations and clip the five pages together to make a storybook.

Geared toward second graders, this science worksheet has young scientists read about spiders and their webs and then demonstrate their nonfiction comprehension by filling in the diagram with the correct anatomical terms.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

Keep this organizer handy for your students to keep track of the chapters they've read and look ahead to the next one! Challenge your young readers to take their chapter summaries one step further by having them write out predictions for upcoming chapters

Build your learner's logical thinking skills by asking them to connect pictures that show what came first and what comes next.

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

Enjoy the story of "The Princess and the Pea" with your beginning reader. Use this story as a starter for literary activities.

Your students will read two short stories, then compare and contrast the characters, problems, solutions, and themes with the help of a graphic organizer.

Teach kids that there is a time for play and a time for work with this lesson featuring Aesop's The Ants and the Grasshopper.

This informative and inspiring worksheet will have your students compare and contrast two athletes who have been instrumental in changing the world of women’s sports!

The Ant and the Grasshopper is a fable that teaches kids the value of hard work. Kids will focus on comprehension and predictions in this worksheet.

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

Take your young reader on an adventure in the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. Color the illustrations and practice reading and counting skills too!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Explore the sounds and patterns of poetry with this second- and third-grade reading activity!

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

Discover the rhythm and rhyme of poetry with this second- and third-grade reading activity!