Grade 2 reading comprehension exercises
We have created a whole new section that helps students practice reading comprehension concepts and skills, such as main idea, sequencing, reading for five Ws, characters, plot and setting. Here are the worksheets included in this section.
Practice main ideas and details
Students read a text and are asked to discuss the main idea, as well as the details that support that main idea.
Reading for the five Ws
Students are asked to find the who, what, where, where and why of stories in these worksheets.
Characters worksheets
These worksheets cover describing the main character in stories.
Learn to compare and contrast
Next, students compare two characters by completing a Venn diagram to show how they are alike and how they are different.
Settings worksheets
In these stories, students focus on the setting of stories. Some of the responses will need to be inferred from clues in the text.
Plot practice
Next, students practice what happens at the beginning, middle and the end of stories. A second set of worksheets have students work out story problems and solutions.
Sequencing worksheets
These sequencing worksheets ask students to place events in their natural order.
Learn cause and effect
Presented with short texts, students practice what happened (the effect) and why (the cause).
Conclusions and inferences practice
Students make inferences about things not explicitly stated in texts.
Prediction worksheets
Looking at book titles, students are asked to predict what a book will be about.
Fact vs. fiction
Students classify texts and short sentences as fact or fiction in these worksheets.
Fact vs. opinion
These similar worksheets ask students to decipher statements as fact or opinion.
Author’s purpose practice
Students decide if the author’s purpose is to persuade, inform or entertain in these worksheets.
Text connections
In these worksheets, students are asked to identify parts of stories that remind them of their own lives.
