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.

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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

Introduce your little reader to some classic childhood literature, with Rudyard Kipling's charming story "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

Here's a worksheet that's great for improving reading comprehension skills. Kids read a simple story about a girl and her kitten then answer the question below.

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.

Strengthen your students' reading comprehension skills with the fable, The Serpent and the Eagle.

This cause and effect worksheet opens your child up to improved critical thinking abilities. Use this cause and effect worksheet to focus on story structure.

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.

Learners will practice identifying the theme of a story by reading a short passage and answering four comprehension questions.

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from the Grimm Brothers' "The Golden Bird."

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

Young readers respond to the books they have completed with this versatile worksheet template.

Get excited about going into nature as you read this passage about a camping trip!

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

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.

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.

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

Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.

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

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

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.

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.

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