Preschool - 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets

Reinforce reading comprehension skills with this simple practice quiz!

Story sequencing will allow third graders to improve their reading comprehension by putting the sequence of events in the correct order.

The main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph. With this worksheet, students will read the paragraphs carefully then circle the statement that best fits the paragraph's main idea.

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.

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

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.

Picture comprehension is a great intro to reading comprehension! Kids will simply identify what is going on in each picture.

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.

Give your second grader's logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect.

In this worksheet, children determine the order of events in a story about two friends who like to roller skate together in their neighborhood.

Bring the zoo to your home with this adjective identification worksheet!

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

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

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.

Learn about facts vs. opinions in this reading comprehension worksheet. Kids will read two sets of text and decide which is fact and which is opinion.

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

This main idea worksheet guides your child through reading comprehension practice. Download today to get started!

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

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

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.

This picture story is all mixed up! Use this worksheet to teach your students how to put plot events in order.

Have students practice their sequencing skills as they put the story in the correct order.

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

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

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

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!

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.