Little Fox's Big Challenge Comprehension
2nd grade reading comprehension: The Little Fox's Big Challenge, a story about a scared fox crossing a river, with four questions on character and lesson.
2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets
RL.2 literature: recounting stories and determining their central message, lesson, or moral.
2nd Grade ELA6 worksheets
Reading Comprehension worksheets to download
Nonfiction Text Features Labeling
2nd grade nonfiction text features: label a frog book spread with glossary, index, caption, subheading, bold word and photograph. Answer key included.
Author's Purpose Exit Slip
2nd grade author's purpose exit slip: read a short cheetah passage, choose answer, explain or describe, and finish a sentence. Three slips per page.
Who What Where When Why How Questions
2nd grade who, what, where, when, why and how questions: two short stories about a treehouse and a kitten, then students write their own questions.
Central Message Practice
2nd grade central message: The Greedy Squirrel fable, with nine questions on story structure, the word ashamed and the lesson about sharing.
Compare Two Stories Venn Diagram
2nd grade Venn diagram comparing Cinderella and Yeh-Shen: sort nine details, like the fairy godmother and fish bones, into each story or both.
Curriculum objectives covered
RL.2.1
“Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.”
RL.2.2
“Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.”
RL.2.3
“Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.”
RI.2.5
“Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.”
RI.2.6
“Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.”
RL.2.5
“Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.”
RL.2.9
“Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.”
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Phonics and Fluency
RF.2 foundational skills: knowing spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams to support accurate, fluent reading.
Writing
W.2 composition: writing narratives that recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events.
Grammar and Language
L.2 conventions: using collective nouns and forming and using frequently occurring irregular plural nouns.
Vocabulary
L.2 vocabulary: using knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words.