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
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 from the text.
Phonics
Phonemic awareness and phonics worksheets for grade 2 students.
Sight words
Worksheets providing practice using high frequency, grade 2 level words.
Reading sentences
Early reading exercises based on the reading of single sentences.
Reading paragraphs
Early reading exercises based on single paragraph texts.
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.
