We are working tirelessly on this area. We hope to have endless new topics for you covering all types of fun topics. Reading comprehension is a skill that takes a great deal of patience on both the part of educators and students. The research tells us that repetition coupled with consistent feedback tends to improve the mental activities required to improve our ability to take in information. As you will see below, we provide you so much practice, you will likely mastery reading comprehension before you run out of material to practice with. This selection of worksheets is often highlighted in about a dozen educator peer reviewed articles and magazines. So, we do think they a pretty darn good.
Actions of Characters in a Story - Students learn to identify characters and track their choices through a story.
Asking and Answering Questions About Text - This is a true measure of your reading success.
Authors and Illustrators As Story Tellers - We see how a collaboration can help the audience better understand the thoughts of the other.
Blank Vocabulary Passages - We cover all the grade levels and these can help build reading fluency.
Book Reports - This is one of the first true open project-based learning assessments of reading that students regularly experience.
Central Ideas of Text - Being able to cut through all the fluff in a work and being able to pinpoint the meat is an important skill.
Central Themes - We are looking to tie together the truths of all the events of a story.
Compare and Contrast Key Details - This is a true measure of comprehension when you can make quality comparisons.
Character's Point of View - Students work to deeply understand the motives and reasoning behind a character.
Cloze Reading Exercises - A great way to engage students and work on context clues, vocabulary, and build reading skills all at once.
Comparing and Contrasting Stories and Dramas - What makes dramas stick out from your normal run of the mill story is that they have the ability to either fiction or nonfiction and they contain a good helping of dialogue between the characters.
Comprehending and Retelling Key Details of Stories - A true measure of reading intelligence is being about to retell that which you have previously read.
Determining Authors and Illustrators of Texts - We go through the basic procedures of where to look from an author's or illustrator's name based on the type of work it is.
Determining the Moral of Fables and Folklore - Stories that have been passed down generation to generation are mostly focused on teaching a universal lesson that is ageless.
Determining An Author's Key Points - Students will learn how to dissect and author's work and laser focus on the message.
Determining Themes of Stories, Dramas, or Poems - This will require students to read deeper into a body of work and find deeper meaning and purpose behind the work.
Explaining What You Read - We encourage students to put everything into their own words and find their own meanings.
Identifying the Characters, Settings, and Major Events in Stories - This leads students into a protocol to outline a story. Once you are able to do this well, book reports become a breeze.
Information From Text vs. Pictures - You would be surprised what you can learn from imagery towards the author's intent.
Key Details From Texts (Kindergarten) - At this point, we are not labeling units of grammar, but we are putting in the same work.
Finding the Theme of a Story - What is the central message that this story is trying to share with the reader?
Get the Message - These worksheets will help you see if your students are understanding why a piece was written.
Preschool Reading Worksheets - Teachers at this level are hoping students have a good awareness of letters and follow the basic English reading pattern (left to right).
Grade 1 Understanding Text - Are they understanding what single sentences are saying to them?
Grade 2 Literature Comprehension Worksheets - This is where the stories start to get more abstract and we encourage students to be more patience while reading.
Grade 2 Reading In The Content Area - This is where independent learners catch their stride. This is truly reading to learn more, plain and simple.
Grade 3 Literature Comprehension Worksheets - The stories a still pretty fun and engaging for students at this level.
Grade 3 Reading Texts - Reading at this level is almost entirely rooted in nonfiction.
Grade 3 Reading In The Content Area - We spend a good amount of time reviewing the skills necessary to be successful with this task.
Grade 4 Literature Comprehension Worksheets - This is the first time students will come across more traditional forms of literature.
Grade 4 Leveled Reading - Two of our passages here found their way on to a national assessment two years ago.
Grade 5 Literature Comprehension Worksheets - We explore some pretty well-known works here.
Grade 5 Leveled Reading - Students are now ready for more lengthy passages that will test their abilities.
Grade 6 Literary Nonfiction Reading Comprehension - This is where you will begin to identify students that are huge fans of nonfiction.
Grade 6 Reading Literature Comprehension - At this level students are able to connect to different passages together and make comparisons.
Grade 7 Nonfiction Reading Comprehension - We work on expanding our working vocabulary at this level.
Grade 7 Literature Reading - This is where students begin to read novels and we push them off in that direction.
Grade 8 Literature Reading Comprehension - This is where students begin to meet up with the classics and it just gets better from here.
Grade 8 Literary Nonfiction Comprehension - This type of literature uses some of your more advanced literary techniques that students should be familiar with by now.
Group Reading Activity - Peer to peer comprehension activities can really help to motivate students.
Main Ideas and Details From Text - This is the core foundation that we are trying to accomplish with students here.
Literature Circles - Students form small groups and have discussions on literature. These worksheets really help teachers set this up in an easy way.
Literary Elements - Being able to master the use of these will really help you become a better storyteller.
Main Idea of Informational Text - This is where we learn how to follow schematics and put together all those things from Ikea.
Main Idea Of Multiparagraph Text - This is the third progression (sentence - paragraph, multi-paragraph) in the learning the skills that are required to breakdown novels.
Orally Reading Grade 2 Text - Contrary to popular belief students that read aloud well, are not always those with the best comprehension skills.
Parts of a Story - We start to be able to diagnose stories and where things fit into them.
Primary Level Passages - These worksheets are aimed at a broad elementary level for you.
Printable Reading Logs - A nice habit to get into to keep track of all the work you put in and make sure that you are following a proper training plan.
Reader Response - This is how authors tailor their message to their audience. This technique helps them create more popular works.
Reading Comprehension of Informational Texts - This helps us learn to absorb information better and more productively.
Reading Fluency - This is a measure of improving speed, accuracy, and using proper body expressions when reading aloud.
Reading For Information - This will be a lifelong skill that will have relevance in everything we do. Those that excel at this, will excel at life.
Reading for Purpose - These worksheets try to help you connect ideas and information you already know to what you are reading.
Reading for Understanding Worksheets - You want to come away learning something new here.
Reading in The Content Area - Work on using our skills of comprehension to basically teach ourselves new knowledge.
Reading Strategies - We look at many different techniques to give students lots of help.
Reading Sequencing - We begin to learn how to piece stories together and dissect them down into their simplest parts.
Reading to Understand Grade 2 Text - This is the first time students at this level will begin to practice this skill.
Relationships Between Illustrations and Texts - This can help you get a general gist of a story and move from there.
Retelling Topics and Key Details of Text - Once you get the hang of this, you will be able to retell things you read in the past with better accuracy.
Science Related Reading Worksheets - All the work that students explore here are based on scientific process and many of the topics are content focused which makes this a very practical skill for students to practice.
Settings - Students will need to thoroughly assess where these stories are taking place and fully understand what surrounds the characters.
Settings and Events of Text - We show you how to decipher this from what you are exploring.
Similar Themes and Patterns of Events - We evaluate two or more works when we reach this skill.
Social Studies Related Reading Worksheets - The focus here is on content that is common in the social studies curriculum.
Story Comparison - You have to look at both sides. How are they alike and how are they different?
Story Drawing - Draw a picture to show what these stories make you imagine.
Structure of a Short Story - We explore common set ups and more advanced series setups.
Summarizing Text - In this section you are trying to keep your explanation brief.
The Difference Between Stories and Informational Texts - The split between fiction and nonfiction.
Understanding Grade 1 Texts - Students are at the sentence level here.
Understanding Multiple Main Ideas - This boggles students at first, but they eventually get the hang of it.
Understanding Text From Short Stories Worksheets - You need to review your work several times here.
Understanding the Moral of the Story - When you can do this with little to no help, you have made quite the transformation.
Using Illustrations to Comprehend Text - This can help, just do not get too dependent on it, since all works do not provide images.
Using Text and Illustrations To Comprehend - See if you can start to see where they overlap.