Reading Paragraphs & Passages

Comprehension practice with short texts

These worksheets give students practice reading short texts (mostly single paragraph) at a grade 2 level.

Read and draw for grade 2 - capturing details from the text in an illustration

Match text to pictures - match 3 different paragraphs to images

Sight word passages - identify sight words in a longer text 

Paragraph comprehension - answer questions about a paragraph of text

Read and recall - sequence events from a text without referring back

Paragraph recap - multiple exercises (Q&A, titles, illustrations, etc.) based on a short text