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2nd Grade Common Core Fiction Passages Worksheets

Give your second graders some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the timeless story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Students will read this classic fable and then answer questions about setting, characters, genre, and cause and effect.

"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" Story Map

This main idea worksheet guides your child through reading comprehension practice. Download today to get started!

Main Idea of a Story Worksheet

Use the templates to assemble and stage a puppet show based on the story.

The Hare and the Tortoise

Help your child understand cause and effect with this practice sheet.

What is Cause and Effect?

Read a classic fable with your beginning reader! This story page for &quot;The Ugly Duckling&quot; will help build reading skills.

The Ugly Duckling

Reading has so many benefits for kids, such as improving vocabulary and language skills and helping to develop imagination and concentration. Reading logs are a great way for you and your students to keep track of their reading throughout the week!

Weekly Reading Log

In this reading fluency worksheet, second and third graders read a story about a sleepy sloth, then answer simple reading comprehension questions.

The Sleepy Sloth Gets Lost

Your students will read two short stories, then compare and contrast the characters, problems, solutions, and themes with the help of a graphic organizer.

Compare and Contrast: Short Stories

What will you be doing on Saturday? Jamie will be on a fishing boat with her grandpa. Read all about her grandpa&#39;s boat and then answer the questions.

Read and Review: Grandpa's Boat

Stories are a fantastic way to teach kids important life lessons. This reading comprehension worksheet uses the classic Aesop’s fable—The Fox and the Crow—to get your students thinking about the central lesson of a story.

The Fox and the Crow

What happened first? Have your young reader find the beginning, middle, and end of this short story. Use the illustrations to help her picture the events.

Sequence of Events

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

Story Map

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.

Paragraph Frame: Summer Vacation

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.

Point of View Practice

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

Story Elements Map

Build comprehension skills with this reading page on cause and effect for kids.

Cause and Effect for Kids

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

The Lion and the Mouse Fable

In this worksheet, learners will refer to illustrations to make inferences about which of two lines of text is true.

Making Inferences With Pictures

Story webs organize a story into one main idea and several details. Help your second grader read the story, then analyze it using the story web.

Story Comprehension: What's in a Story?

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

Reading Comprehension: Map That Story!

Children read the First Amendment, then complete a simple word scramble puzzle and answer reading comprehension questions.

Learn the First Amendment

Take an adventure through the woods with this "Little Red Riding Hood" story, fit for young readers.

Little Red Riding Hood Story

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author&#39;s message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!

Make Your Own Inferences

Keeping a reading log is a great way to encourage your child to set goals and track their progress. Your students will build reading fluency and stamina by logging and graphing their reading time.

Reading Log and Graph

Help your students find the perfect book for their reading level! In this activity, students will use the five-finger rule to find books that aren't too easy or too hard, but rather just right!

Finding Just-Right Books

Give your star reader a great way to get their thoughts organized. This star graphic organizer will help them practice basic reading comprehension.

Star Graphic Organizer

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

Five Finger Story Sequencing

The Ant and the Grasshopper story cards help your visual learner understand what happens in the classic fable. Kids arrange picture cards to tell the story.

The Ant and the Grasshopper Story Cards

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

Chapter Summaries

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

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