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Grade 2 reading comprehension.

Use these free, printable worksheets to practice and improve reading comprehension, vocabulary and writing.  Each worksheet includes a short fiction or non-fiction passage followed by some questions.  These worksheets are at a 2nd grade level.

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These grade 2 leveled stories are taken from our series of leveled reading workbooks .  Each successive level provides a greater reading challenge.

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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.

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Each historical passage or fable is followed by 4 questions focused on recalling information directly from the text.

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).

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Our free grade 2 reading comprehension worksheets make children fluent in reading, provide pleasure, and profoundly inform them. Aside from fostering independent reading skills, these pdfs also assess other key skills like ordering events in a story, identifying the purpose of a text, matching causes to their effects, and more.

These pdf reading passages are ideal for 2nd grade learners.

Read through this informational passage on penguins, where kids write the subject of the story, match causes to effects, and answer questions.

Penguins

Princess for a Day

This printable worksheet is sure to get children dreaming! Read about Carly and how she becomes a princess for a day, before answering the questions.

Princess for a Day

Get kids to experience a dose of wintry fun with Maggie and her sister. Evaluate reading skills as they sequence the events in order and answer questions.

Snow Day

The Great Hunter Cat

A series of pouncing attempts lead Lucky, the Kitten, to the verge of despair. This comprehension story teaches grade 2 kids to keep at it until they make it.

The Great Hunter Cat

Winning Isn't Everything

Sometimes, being nice to someone feels better than winning, as shown in this exercise, where kids answer questions based on a reading passage.

Winning Is not Everything

A Day at the Beach

Join Lola as she enjoys the sun and sand at the beach with her family. Read the story, interpret the information, and tackle the bunch of questions that follow.

A Day at the Beach

Katy learns an important life lesson in this section of our printable grade 2 comprehension worksheet. Take on the questions with vim and vigor.

Play Nice

A Pug Named Doug

Marvel at the magical bond between Gus and his pug, Doug, in this short and sweet tale. Answer the questions based on the plot, characters and setting, too.

A Pug Named Doug

Nature’s Nocturnal Navigators

Filled to the brim with facts about bats, this informational passage is a treat for budding learners who are tasked with tackling the questions that follow.

Nocturnal Navigators

Cooking Up Changes

Unravel the physical and chemical changes that drive the actions in a kitchen, answering questions on the differences between the two changes.

Cooking Up Changes

A treasure trove of information on dolphins, this 2nd grade reading passage pdf acquaints children with facts that serve as the source for the answers.

Dolphins

How a Blender Works

Impart kids some knowledge about the inner workings of the humble blender, and get them to peruse the passage again to find the answers to the questions.

How a Blender Works

The Amazing Journey of Seeds

Explore the mechanisms of efficient dispersal of seeds. Summon your inner biologist to make answering the questions an absolute breeze.

The Amazing Journey of Seeds

The Amazing Life Cycle of Plants

Follow the journey of a seed as it becomes a plant, and take on questions about the different stages in this pdf reading comprehension worksheet for 2nd grade.

The Amazing Life Cycle of Plants

The Butterfly and the Kitten

Discover the nuances of differing points of view, and enjoy the little story about an interesting run-in between a pretty butterfly and a naughty kitten.

The Butterfly and the Kitten

Sammy the Seal

Watch 2nd grade kids' story comprehension skills soar as they witness the fun and joy that characterize the life of Sammy the seal in this printable exercise.

Sammy the Seal

Merlin's Hilarious Halloween Surprise

Indulge in spooky shenanigans with Merlin as she carves a pumpkin for Halloween. Choose the correct options or write the answers as instructed.

Hilarious Halloween Surprise

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Reading Comprehension Worksheets for Second Graders

Reading comprehension allows students to not only read the words on a page but to understand their meaning . Reading comprehension worksheets create a great opportunity for children to practice this skill and allow parents and teachers to monitor how children are progressing in their ability to read and interpret text. 

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Our reading comprehension worksheets feature short poems for children to read and show their understanding by drawing a picture of what they read about. Some worksheets also feature fill-in-the-blank sentences, where children have to use their language arts and reading comprehension skills to complete sentences with the correct word.

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⭐ Comprehension Play

Instead of drawing a picture to demonstrate their understanding of what they read, invite children to act out the poems or write a summary of what happened in the poem. 

⭐ Book Illustrator

Take the read-and-illustrate exercise from these worksheets one step further. Challenge your child to take on the role of Book Illustrator, asking them to read a few pages or a chapter from a book of their choice and then draw pictures to correspond with what they read. 

⭐ Read and Discuss

Reading comprehension can also be demonstrated through simple discussions about what children have read. Read the poems on these worksheets with your child or read a book along with them. After finishing, ask your child questions about what they read. 

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2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets

Download these FREE 2nd-grade reading comprehension worksheets and use them in class today! These PDF worksheets are for readers at a grade 2 level to practice comprehension skills such as reading for detail, sequencing, and distinguishing between fact and fiction.

Worksheet 1: Reading For Detail

Title: sara’s new book.

A 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheet

This first worksheet is great for grade 2 students to practice reading for details. Students are asked to read a passage about a girl who loves to read and then to answer five reading comprehension questions about the story.

Worksheet 2: Sequencing

Title: ben’s birthday party.

A 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheet

In this worksheet, students are asked to read a short story about a boy’s birthday party. Students must then put the events from the story in order by completing a table with numbers 1 to 4. This is great for students to practice the comprehension skill of sequencing.

Worksheet 3: Fact Or Fiction

Title: emma’s new bike.

A 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheet

To complete this worksheet, students must read a short story about a girl named Emma and her new bike. Then, students should read five statements about the passage and determine if they are true or false.

Worksheet 4: Main Idea

Title: gardening with granpa.

A 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheet

This next worksheet is great for practicing reading comprehension for the main idea. Students are asked to read a passage about a boy who loves gardening with his grandpa. Students must then answer five reading comprehension questions about the passage.

Worksheet 5: Sequencing

Title: a day at the zoo.

A 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Next is another sequencing worksheet. Students are asked to read a passage about a day out at the zoo. Students should read the passage and then put the events from the story in the correct order.

Worksheet 6: Reading For Details

Title: building sandcastles.

A 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheet

This last reading comprehension worksheet asks students to read a short story about a family’s day at the beach. Students should then answer five reading comprehension questions by finding the details in the passage.

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Grade 2 Reading Comprehension

Grade 2 reading comprehension worksheets to help your students in English. Reading comprehension in grade 2 is important. Students are beginning to read with more fluency, and their comprehension skills start to improve greatly. Teachers should aim to explicitly teach comprehension skills, and read texts daily. Get students answering questions verbal and written questions. Get children to identify the main idea of the text, and make vocabulary inferences as they read. Use these free grade 2 reading comprehension passages to save your time and help your students. Click on the images below to download the worksheets.

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The Liberty Bell | Non-fiction

The Liberty Bell | Non-fiction

The Liberty Bell symbolizes American freedom. The informational passage prepared for grade 2, walks your child through varied question formats like MCQs, questions using 'what' and 'where' and much more.

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The Tooth Fairy | Poem

The Tooth Fairy | Poem

After a long wait, The Tooth Fairy is there and there's the bright coin too! Help kids learn to sequence events, skilfully describe the setting and correlate events in the poem with their experiences.

Brandon's Books | Fiction

Brandon's Books | Fiction

The ELA worksheet pdf hammers home the idea that books are a man's best friend. Brandon is amazed as the books start talking. Find out how Brandon responds to the books and answer the questions too.

Amanda's Trip | Fiction

Amanda's Trip | Fiction

Books not only inform and educate, they can be real fun too. This printable pdf introduces contractions and kids dig deep into the story with MCQ and extended answers, a requisite in Common Core.

Animals of the Night | Non-fiction

Animals of the Night | Non-fiction

Do you know that not all animals are day-active? This intriguing article provides kids the basic knowledge of night-active animals. Test comprehension with a variety of questions that follow.

The Tale of My Talented Tail | Poem

The Tale of My Talented Tail | Poem

What would you do, if you woke up to a tail in your back? Let kids read the poem, and encourage them to understand how words and phrases supply rhythm in a poem and recount a part of the text as well.

Jelly Bean Tree | Poem

Jelly Bean Tree | Poem

Kids never have enough of fantasy; have a riot teaching the poem! Here's an endeavor to acquaint the child with the overall structure of a poem, teach a new phrase, and reiterate rhyming practice as well.

A Friendly Battle | Fiction

A Friendly Battle | Fiction

This is an inspirational account of a board game played by a family on a weekend. Kids answer the 'who' and 'what' of the 'Friendly battle' and attempt reflecting on their own life based on what they read.

Space Alien Guests | Poem

Space Alien Guests | Poem

Find out how, in order to please the aliens, a child meets some strange requests. The pick of this 2nd grade reading worksheet is the adjectives, and there are questions on key details of the poem and also on rhyming words.

Whiskers' Wish | Fiction

Whiskers' Wish | Fiction

If you could become someone else, what would it be? The printable comprehension worksheet elucidates how a character responds to its own wishes and teaches topic-specific adjectives.

Kyla’s Missing Library Book

Kyla’s Missing Library Book

Kyla looked under her bed. She looked in her closet. She checked everywhere. But she couldn’t find the book. Explore this reading comprehension for grade 2 to know what happened to Kyla’s book. The questions include ordering events, analyzing a character, and more.

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Second-grade readers should have a more advanced understanding of phonics if they are to be successful in building stronger reading comprehension skills. In particular, decoding one-syllable and two-syllable words, common prefixes and suffixes, and irregularly spelled words are skills commonly identified as grade-appropriate. The following tips can help advance these and other reading comprehension skills:

Reading aloud is one of the best activities for developing readers. It helps them understand how individual words connect together to form a fluent sentence. Reading aloud also promotes understanding of how to pronounce multisyllabic words.

Use a Story/Word Ball

A story ball is nothing more than an inflatable beach ball with critical questions written on it  (i.e., Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?). Alternatively, new words using common prefixes and suffixes could be written on the ball. Children toss the ball to one another, and each child is encouraged to answer the question or demonstrate how to pronounce the word that’s facing them.

Establish Clear Goals

Students will be able to retain more information if they understand what the goals are for the reading ahead of time. For example, if students are asked to read a passage about playing outside in the winter, let them know that they will learn how to build a snowman. Doing so helps direct their attention as they read so they can more effectively decode new and unfamiliar words.

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Time with my Family

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Understanding figurative language , Central message, Identifying the main topic and key ideas.

Three Boats

Central message, Identifying the main topic and key ideas, Identifying the author’s point of view

The Drive home

Central message, Lesson or moral, identifying the author’s point of view, identifying the main topic and key ideas

Central message, identifying the author’s point of view, identifying the main topic and key ideas, lesson or moral

Central message, identifying the author’s point of view, identifying the main topic and key ideas.

Getting to work

Central message, lesson or moral, Identifying the main topic and key ideas, Identifying the author’s point of view

Family Jobs

David’s Hair

Central message, lesson or moral, Identifying intent and conclusions, Identifying the main topic and key ideas.

Anna and Henry Play

Amos Makes a Cake

Sequencing questions, Central message, lesson or moral, Identifying the main topic and key ideas, Identifying the author’s point of view, ,Identifying a problem and solution described in the text

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Lets Connect the Cause and Effect Worksheet

Boost your child's reading skills today! In this concept check worksheet, children determine the relationship between cause and effect.

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Lets Link the Cause and Effect Worksheet

Understand the impact of events with our engaging cause and effect worksheet. Start learning today!

Find the Cause and Effect Worksheet

Find the Cause and Effect Worksheet

Strengthen reading skills with our cause and effect worksheet by helping young readers understand relationships between events and enhance comprehension.

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What Do You Infer? Worksheet

What Do You Infer? Worksheet

Sharpen inference skills with our fun reading worksheet! Describe the picture to enhance comprehension and critical thinking. Dive into visual literacy today!

Match the Meaning Worksheet

Match the Meaning Worksheet

Develop inference skills with this fun worksheet! Make inferences from text to enhance comprehension and critical thinking. Boost reading proficiency today!

Drawing Inferences Worksheet

Drawing Inferences Worksheet

Sharpen your inference skills with our interactive worksheet. Learn to draw logical conclusions and make insightful deductions from the given information.

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Making Predictions Worksheet

Making Predictions Worksheet

In this worksheet, budding readers predict what will happen next in the story. Students sharpen their prediction skills and enhance critical thinking.

Lets Predict! Worksheet

Lets Predict! Worksheet

Time to put your child's prediction power to work as they read and use picture clues to determine what happens next with this exciting prediction worksheet!

What Happens Next? Worksheet

What Happens Next? Worksheet

Let's practice making predictions using textual evidence. In this engaging worksheet, students come up with possible things that might happen in the story.

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Can You Sequence It? Worksheet

Can You Sequence It? Worksheet

Practice storytelling skills with our sequencing worksheet. Enhance comprehension, order events, and enhance narrative abilities. Get started now!

Lets Sequence Events! Worksheet

Lets Sequence Events! Worksheet

Boost comprehension by sequencing story events with our reading worksheet. Strengthen reading skills and enhance narrative abilities. Start sequencing now!

Lets Read a Story and Identify its Events! Worksheet

Lets Read a Story and Identify its Events! Worksheet

Enhance reading skills with our interactive worksheet! Let's identifying story events. Boost comprehension and engage in captivating storytelling. Start reading today!

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Read and Spot the Story Elements Worksheet

Read and Spot the Story Elements Worksheet

Uncover story elements and improve reading comprehension with our interactive worksheet! Enhance understanding and boost your child's reading skills.

Become a Story Master with Story Elements! Worksheet

Become a Story Master with Story Elements! Worksheet

Explore story elements and enhance your child's reading comprehension skills with our interactive worksheet. Dive into engaging storytelling today!

Map Your Own Story! Worksheet

Map Your Own Story! Worksheet

Explore the steps to crafting your own captivating story through our fun worksheet. Enhancing storytelling and writing skills is just a download away!

Catch That Response! Worksheet

Catch That Response! Worksheet

Character analysis is crucial for fiction comprehension. Help your students break down individual character responses to major story events with this graphic organizer.

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Find Out the Authors Intent Worksheet

Find Out the Authors Intent Worksheet

Discover the author's purpose in a text with our reading worksheet. Enhance comprehension and engage in insightful reading. Start analyzing today!

Find the Authors Purpose Worksheet

Find the Authors Purpose Worksheet

Help your child uncover the author's purpose with our interactive reading worksheet! Enhance comprehension of a text. Dive into meaningful reading today!

What Is the Author Saying? Worksheet

What Is the Author Saying? Worksheet

Learn to understand the author's purpose through text in this engaging worksheet. This reading worksheet will improve your child's comprehension skills.

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Lets Talk Festivals! Worksheet

Lets Talk Festivals! Worksheet

Help students develop compare-and-contrast skills as they describe their two favorite festivals by answering questions in this interesting worksheet.

Compare Your Favorite Characters Worksheet

Compare Your Favorite Characters Worksheet

Compare your favorite characters! Explore similarities and differences. Enhance critical thinking and communication skills in this fun worksheet!

A Game of Comparisons! Worksheet

A Game of Comparisons! Worksheet

This fun and informative worksheet will challenge learners to read a text and compare and contrast two amphibians using the graphic organizer.

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Whats the Central Message? Worksheet

Whats the Central Message? Worksheet

Want to help your young readers learn how to discern the central message of fictional stories? Give them this fun worksheet for practice.

What Is the Central Message? Worksheet

What Is the Central Message? Worksheet

Engage young learners with this fun reading worksheet! Improve comprehension skills as students identify main ideas using visual clues.

Whats the Message? Worksheet

Whats the Message? Worksheet

Boost your child's love for stories. This engaging reading worksheet helps students think about the central message, lesson, or moral in fiction texts.

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Write the Objects Point of View Worksheet

Write the Objects Point of View Worksheet

What will happen if these things from your daily life quit? Your child will practice different points of view by thinking outside the box in this fun worksheet!

Identify the Point of View Worksheet

Identify the Point of View Worksheet

Immerse yourself in this reading worksheet! Hone the skill of identifying points of view. Engaging worksheet to enhance understanding of perspective.

Complete the Conversation Worksheet

Complete the Conversation Worksheet

Children love making conversations and putting their point of view across. In this worksheet give your child a good practice on point of view as they try to write their own perspective in a conversation.

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Illustrate a Birthday Party Worksheet

Illustrate a Birthday Party Worksheet

Illustrations aid a young reader's mind in understanding concepts. Inspire artistic expression and storytelling in your child through this exciting worksheet!

Read and Draw Worksheet

Read and Draw Worksheet

Unleash your inner illustrator! Get ready with colors and pencils. Read the descriptions and bring them to life through illustrations.

Illustrate the Character and Setting Worksheet

Illustrate the Character and Setting Worksheet

Unleash your creativity with our captivating illustration worksheet! Encourage your kids to bring a recently read story to life through their vibrant art.

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Whats in a Newspaper? Worksheet

Whats in a Newspaper? Worksheet

Learning text features comes alive in this observe and record worksheet, where students will dive into text resources around them and improve their comprehension skills!

Time to Label Worksheet

Time to Label Worksheet

An article or a poster has various elements. These text features in them help us locate important information. In this fun worksheet, students will explore these features.

Hunting for Text Features Worksheet

Hunting for Text Features Worksheet

Grab a book and search for the text features. Develop an understanding of how text is presented with this interactive worksheet.

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Lets Decode from the Context Worksheet

Lets Decode from the Context Worksheet

Context clues help readers discern the meaning of new vocabulary terms in their reading. Advance your child's reading comprehension by helping them use contextual clues in this worksheet.

Can You Search All the Words? Worksheet

Can You Search All the Words? Worksheet

Engage in a word grid activity with our fun worksheet! Seek and create sentences while fostering vocabulary development in your child.

Extract Meaning in the Context Worksheet

Extract Meaning in the Context Worksheet

Amplify reading comprehension skills of students with this fun worksheet! Children will explore extracting meaning in the context, and enhance understanding and vocabulary.

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Become The Detail Detective Worksheet

Become The Detail Detective Worksheet

It's time to deconstruct text paragraphs by identifying the main topic and key details. You get to pick your own book. Download this super interesting worksheet now!

Complete the Concept Web Worksheet

Complete the Concept Web Worksheet

Reading non fiction made easy in this cool worksheet with an organizer! Help your child strengthen their comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and key details.

Cracking the Main Idea Worksheet

Cracking the Main Idea Worksheet

Develop critical thinking abilities through our comprehensive key details and main idea worksheet. Perfect for building strong comprehension!

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Spot the Character Response Worksheet

Understand character response through real-life people! Help your students strengthen their pre-writing skills with this real-life character response worksheet.

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Chess | Nonfiction Reading Test - Students practice a variety of reading skills while learning about the game of kings. This worksheet features Common Core aligned multiple-choice and long-response questions to help your students develop their reading skills. View my readibility scores . Chess | Nonfiction Reading Test | RTF Chess | Nonfiction Reading Test | PDF Chess | Nonfiction Reading Test | Preview Chess | Nonfiction Reading Test | Answers Chess | Nonfiction Reading Test | Ereading Worksheet

TV | Nonfiction Reading Test - What's more fun than watching TV? Reading about TV and then answering multiple-choice and long-response questions! Get ready to have a good time. View my readibility scores . TV | Nonfiction Reading Test | RTF TV | Nonfiction Reading Test | PDF TV | Nonfiction Reading Test | Preview TV | Nonfiction Reading Test | Answers TV | Nonfiction Reading Test | Ereading Worksheet

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Repeated Subtraction is Division

Repeated Subtraction is Division

Week 19 Reading Comprehension (B-19). A brief explanation of division and how it relates to subtraction. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.

Revise Your Writing

Revise Your Writing

Week 32 Reading Comprehension (B-32). A short passage and related questions about the benefits and process of revision. Cross-Curricular Focus: Writing Strategies.

Shapes on a Plane

Shapes on a Plane

Week 25 Reading Comprehension (B-25). Reading segment and questions about common types of geometric shapes. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.

Showing Data on a Graph

Showing Data on a Graph

Week 29 Reading Comprehension (B-29). A brief passage and questions about displaying information on a graph. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.

Solids, Liquids, & Gases

Solids, Liquids, & Gases

Week 14 Reading Comprehension (B-14). A brief passage and questions about the different forms of matter. Cross-Curricular Focus: Physical Science.

Step by Step Instructions

Step by Step Instructions

Week 17 Reading Comprehension (B-17). A short passage and questions about writing instructions for your science fair project. Cross-Curricular Focus: Science Investigations.

Summarize it!

Summarize it!

Week 36 Reading Comprehension (B-36). A brief passage and questions about summarizing skills. Cross-Curricular Focus: Study Skills.

The Pitch and Volume of Sound

The Pitch and Volume of Sound

Week 2 Reading Comprehension (B-2). A reading segment and comprehension questions about pitch and volume. Cross-Curricular Focus: Physical Science.

The Rock Cycle

The Rock Cycle

Week 11 Reading Comprehension (B-11). A passage about stages of the rock cycle. Cross-Curricular Focus: Earth Science.

The Scientific Method

The Scientific Method

Week 15 Reading Comprehension (B-15). Reading segment and questions about using the scientific method in experiments. Cross-Curricular Focus: Science Investigations.

Using a Timeline

Using a Timeline

Week 1 Reading Comprehension (B-1). A reading passage and questions about using timelines to help understand history. Cross-Curricular Focus: History / Social Sciences.

Using Arrays for Multiplication

Using Arrays for Multiplication

Week 18 Reading Comprehension (B-18). A brief definition and explanation of how to use arrays in mathematics. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.

Using Land in Different Ways

Using Land in Different Ways

Week 7 Reading Comprehension (B-7). A short passage and related questions about rural, urban, and suburban communities. Cross-Curricular Focus: History / Social Sciences.

What is a Glyph?

What is a Glyph?

Week 23 Reading Comprehension (B-23). Reading comprehension passage about glyphs – pictures that provide information. Cross-Curricular Focus: Reasoning Skills.

What is Gravity?

What is Gravity?

Week 9 Reading Comprehension (B-9). A brief passage and questions about the affects of gravity. Cross-Curricular Focus: Physical Science.

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