Preschool - 2nd Grade Reading Passages Worksheets

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.

Read this poem, then illustrate your favorite part!

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

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

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.

Learners will practice analyzing a short script in this winter-themed reading comprehension worksheet.

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

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

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

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

Children learn about the life and legacy of civil rights activist Rosa Parks in this history worksheet.

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

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. 

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.

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.

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

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

Introduce children to Italian Christmas traditions with this reading comprehension worksheet!

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

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

Use this Valentine's Day reader's theater script to engage students as they practice reading fluently.

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

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.

Track important events in the life of an important woman with this Sojourner Truth timeline, a great way to get used to reading and writing nonfiction.

Little gardeners, get to know your plants! See the cycle of a plant from its birth to adulthood, and read a bit about photosynthesis too.

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.

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

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

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!