Stories are a fantastic way to teach kids important life lessons. This reading comprehension worksheet uses the classic Aesop’s fable—The Fox and the Crow—to get your students thinking about the central lesson of a story.

Play author with this creative writing and comprehension exercise! Your child will learn all about inference, or drawing conclusions based on what they've read.

Give your second graders some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the timeless story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Students will read this classic fable and then answer questions about setting, characters, genre, and cause and effect.

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

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

Students will read and answer questions about the Bradley family's summer vacation. 

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

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

Read about Pete and all of his pets in this story. 

This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the story.

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

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

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

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

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

What happened first? Have your young reader find the beginning, middle, and end of this short story. Use the illustrations to help her picture the events.

Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

Help your child learn the "Wh words," who, what, where, why and when, with this charming story about a day at the dog park.

In this Reader's Theater worksheet, students read a script, then answer the reading comprehension questions that follow.

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.

What will you be doing on Saturday? Jamie will be on a fishing boat with her grandpa. Read all about her grandpa's boat and then answer the questions.

Bring it back to the basics with this reading comprehension exercise about Mindy, her birthday party, and her cake.

Get your third grader in the habit of reading closely with this multi-page story featuring questions on the main character, sequencing, and recalling details.

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.