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.

Your students will need to read between the lines as they make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

This excerpt has exactly 100 words and is great reading practice for your little quaterbacks!

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.

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Use this resource for fluency practice.

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Readers will delight in this first (worst) day of school story, and practice cause and effect with this funny worksheet.

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

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

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

Familiarize your child with Peter Pan, one of the most enduring characters of children's literature, with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Story webs organize a story into one main idea and several details. Help your second grader read the story, then analyze it using the story web.

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

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Help young readers make inferences using context clues with this worksheet.

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

Young readers will discover how to identify the point of view of a story or text in this literacy worksheet.

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

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

Children read the First Amendment, then complete a simple word scramble puzzle and answer reading comprehension questions.

Students will practice making inferences about the characters, setting, and events based on clues in the passage.

Young readers will refer to a passage from The Secret Garden to answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

Young readers practice identifying the theme of a story in this thoughtful fable about two friends who find gold in the forest.

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

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device!

After your students finish reading this story about Leo and how he overcomes his soccer injury, they will answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about the text.

Use these task cards with your students to practice reading short passages and making inferences about character, setting, and plot.