Reading skills & comprehension
Use these worksheets to practice and improve reading skills and reading comprehension. Our leveled stories, children's stories and fables include short fiction or non-fiction passages followed by questions. Our phonics and reading comprehension worksheets focus on more specific reading skills.
1st grade reading comprehension worksheet
Leveled stories & reading worksheets
These grade 2 leveled stories are taken from our series of leveled reading workbooks. Each successive level provides a greater reading challenge.
Children's stories
Over 20 free children's stories followed by comprehension questions. Most passages are 150-200 words long; questions ask students to recall what they have read.
Fables for grade 2 students
Each historical passage or fable is followed by 4 questions focused on recalling information directly from the text.
Phonics
Phonemic awareness and phonics worksheets for grade 2 students.
Reading comprehension exercises
Reading comprehension worksheets focused on specific comprehension topics such as the "main idea versus details" of a text, sequencing and story elements (characters, setting, plot).
We also have some short plays and drama exercises which can be fun way of building comprehension skills.
