These early reading worksheets focus on reading simple sentences, paragraphs and passages, with the emphasis on building comprehension. They are a progression from our phonics worksheets & lay the groundwork for our children's stories and reading comprehension worksheets.
Select your grade / topic:
Kindergarten - Reading sentences
- Matching very simple sentences to images
- Unscrambling pictures & sentences
- Completing sentences
- Illustrating sentences
- Fluency exercises
- Riddles (with / without pictures)
Kindergarten - Reading passages
- Reading and illustrating texts
- Completing texts
- Reading with Q&A (with / without pictures)
- Read & recall exercises
- Matching grade 1 level sentences to images
- Unscrambling images and related sentences
- Completing sentences with picture clues
- Illustrating sentences
- Fluency exercises
- Riddles
- Color images based on details in the text
- Draw images based on details in the text
- Completing texts
- Read & recall exercises
- Reading with Q&A
- Unscramble sentences
- Completing sentences with / without clues
- Cloze reading
- Fluency practice
- Read & draw
- Reading and solving riddles
Grade 2 - Paragraphs & passages
- Illustrating texts
- Matching texts to images
- Reading with Q&A
- Read and recall
- Read and recap
Grade 3 - Paragraphs & passages
- Illustrating texts
- Nonfiction reading with Q&A
- Fiction reading with Q&A
- Cloze reading
- Read & recall
- Comprehension practice
Sample early reading worksheet
