Preschool - 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.

This worksheet helps students analyze the ways in which stories are similar and different.

Use this worksheet as a way for students to practice retelling a familiar story using their own words and images.

Get students excited about reading by creating reading shields! This activity will prompt conversations about what students have read and want to read.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

This worksheet is a brief introduction to the human rights activist and feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes.

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

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.

Read this charmingly illustrated story of "The Three Little Pigs" then use the finger puppets to retell it!

Explore story sense with your young reader. First, read the astronaut's story. Then, let your imagination tell what will happen next!

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

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

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

Read this cozy poem by A.A. Milne, then answer a reading comprehension question.

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

Children practice story sequencing with this daily routine cut-and-paste worksheet.