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 this reading worksheet to help second and third graders learn about the inspiring work of Jane Goodall, famous scientist and conservationist.

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.

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

This short nonfiction text will teach students about the ocean, and includes questions to help students identify the author’s point of view and purpose for writing the text by focusing on important vocabulary words that support the main idea.

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.

Your students will demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text features, such as caption, diagram, and heading, with this helpful vocabulary worksheet.

Read this well-loved poem, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

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.

Give your students practice with Reader’s Theater in the wonderful genre of drama. They will read and practice fluency, as well as comprehension.

Learn about the USA's three branches of government and where each one works.

Use this reading passage to practice reading comprehension with your learners.

In this worksheet, children read along to a classic nursery rhyme, counting the M's as they go.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Preschoolers and kindergarteners will enjoy finding the letter A in the lines of this classic children's poem and song.

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

How many Z's does Fuzzy Wuzzy have in his tongue twister? Kids find and count each letter Z in the silly poem on this kindergarten reading worksheet.