Grade 2 Reading Comprehension Worksheets

Comprehension skills and story elements

These worksheets introduce comprehension concepts and skills as well as story elements such as characters, setting and plot.
 

Main ideas & details:  what is the text mostly about?

Reading for the 5Ws:  who, what, why, when & where
 

Characters: describe the character traits of a story's main character

Compare & contrast:  use Venn diagrams to show how characters are alike or different

Setting: describe the setting of the story, including using inferences

Plot: the beginning, the middle, the end and the problem solved
 

Sequencing:  put events in logical order and creating own sequences

Cause and effect worksheets:  linking causes and effects

Conclusions & inferences:  what is "probably true" based on a short text

Prediction worksheets:  predict what is in a book and how a story will end
 

Fact vs fiction:  fact or fiction? reality or fantasy?

Fact vs opinion:  classify sentences as fact or opinion

Author's purpose:  persuade, inform or entertain?

Text connections: linking stories to ones own experiences