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Free K-2 Reading Comprehension Worksheets

posted on July 25, 2023

By Aimee Sawyer, Product Marketing Manager at Khan Academy Kids and former teacher

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Kids read stories all the time! But are they really understanding what they read or what’s being read to them? Comprehension is an essential skill—not just for reading, but for all other subjects as well ( National Reading Panel ). Khan Academy Kids is here to help make story time more enriching by teaching reading comprehension one skill at a time. Read below to find free lessons and reading comprehension worksheets that teach skills like recognizing key details, making predictions, learning about characters, and more.

Each reading comprehension worksheet pairs with a book in the free Khan Academy Kids app. Click here to see how to access books in the app, and click here to learn more about the books we offer and how they can be used in the classroom.

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“Comprehension is the reason for reading. If readers can read the words but do not understand or connect to what they are reading, they are not really reading. Good readers are both purposeful and active and have the skills to absorb what they read, analyze it, make sense of it, and make it their own.”

– Reading Rockets

Finding key details

Key details are the important pieces of information in a story. Key details answer questions like who, what, when, where, why, and how. When a reader knows the answers to basic questions about the story, they have the foundation to build a deeper understanding of the text.

A reading comprehension game with post its that have question words on them: who, what, when, and where.

Kids can practice answering questions about key details in the free Khan Academy Kids app . You can find this lesson in the Reading tab under “Key Ideas and Details.”

Pair this writing page with the book The Best Way to Catch a Bug from the free Khan Academy Kids app. The prompt focuses on the key detail question: what. Click here to see how to access The Best Way to Catch a Bug and other books.

Learning about characters

Before diving into characterization, kids need to first be able to identify the characters in a story. Then readers can turn their attention to the characters’ attributes. What do the characters like? What kinds of thoughts or feelings do they experience in the story? What do they decide to do when they run into a tricky situation? The answers to these questions help us get to know the characters.

A reading comprehension game that asks a multiple choice question: "What do Kalani's actions tell us about Kalani?"

Kids practice learning about characters by noticing their thoughts, feelings, and actions. Download the free Khan Academy Kids app for more practice questions like these. You can find this lesson in the Reading tab under “Key Ideas and Details.”

Pair this writing page with the book Star of the Show from the free Khan Academy Kids app. The prompt asks about the main character, Kalani. Click here to see how to access The Star of the Show and other books.

Finding setting

The setting of a story provides important context for all of the events that happen in a story. Readers can find the setting by looking for clues in the text and the pictures.

A reading comprehension game that asks a multiple choice question with four images as answer options. The question asks, "What is the setting of the story?"

Kids can practice identifying the setting of a story in the free Khan Academy Kids app . You can find this lesson in the Reading tab under “Key Ideas and Details.”

Pair this writing page with the book Trading Lunches from the free Khan Academy Kids app. The prompt asks kids to recall the setting of the story. Click here to see how to access Trading Lunches and other books.

Beginning, Middle, and End

All stories have a beginning, middle, and end. It’s important that kids can put the events of a story in order and eventually learn the purpose of each part of the story. The beginning of the story introduces the reader to the characters and the setting. The middle of the story usually introduces the problem of the story. The end is usually when the problem gets resolved!

A reading comprehension game where kids match options on the left with answers on the right. Kids match the words Beginning, Middle, and End to the purpose of each part of the story listed on the right.

Kids can practice answering questions about beginning, middle, and end in the free Khan Academy Kids app . You can find this lesson in the Reading tab under “Words and Structure.”

Pair this writing page with the book Friendship Takes Time from the free Khan Academy Kids app. The prompt asks kids to draw or write what happens at the end of the story. Click here to see how to access Friendship Takes Time and other books.

Retelling stories

Retelling a story seems simple at first—all you have to do is say what happened in the story you just read! However, retelling will eventually lead to the more sophisticated skill of summarization . We want to make sure kids understand all the elements involved: identifying the most important details, putting events in order, and condensing it all into a sentence or two.

A reading comprehension game with three images from a story. The images are in order based on when they happened in the story. They are labeled First, Next, and Last.

Kids can practice putting the events of a story in order in the free Khan Academy Kids app . You can find this lesson in the Reading tab under “Key Ideas and Details.”

Pair this writing page with the book The New Class from the free Khan Academy Kids app. Kids can practice retelling by drawing a picture that shows what happened in the story. Click here to see how to access The New Class and other books.

Finding the lesson of a story

Most stories have a main character who encounters a problem and then learns an important lesson in the process of solving it. As readers, we get to join fictional characters on their journey and learn a lesson alongside them!

A reading comprehension game with a multiple choice question. The question asks, "What is the lesson of this story?"

Kids can practice finding the lesson of the story in the free Khan Academy Kids app . You can find this lesson in the Reading tab under “Key Ideas and Details.”

Pair this writing page with the book Calming Down from the free Khan Academy Kids app. The prompt asks kids what lesson the main character learned in the story. Click here to see how to access Calming Down and other books.

Making predictions

When we’re reading stories, there’s a natural impulse to wonder, “What happens next?” It’s almost second nature to imagine the possibilities. We can prompt kids’ imagination by asking them specific prediction questions such as “What do you think the main character will do when they go to school the next day?” When kids engage with questions like this, it requires them to think about two things: 1) what they know about the story, and 2) patterns they’ve seen in the real world or in other stories.

A cute elephant character is sitting behind a table. The table has a book on one side and a crystal ball on the right. The word "prediction" is displayed at the top of the screen. This is an excerpt from one of the games in the free Khan Academy Kids app.

Kids can practice making predictions while reading stories in the free Khan Academy Kids app . You can find this lesson in the Reading tab under “Integrating Text & Illustrations.”

Pair this writing page with the book Dinosaur Day from the free Khan Academy Kids app. The prompt asks kids to guess why Sandy doesn’t show up to school on Dinosaur Day. Click here to see how to access The Best Way to Catch a Bug and other books.

We hope these lessons and reading comprehension worksheets are helpful as kids grow in their reading comprehension skills. Download the free Khan Academy Kids app to access the lessons mentioned above and a whole lot more!

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Basics: Reading comprehension. Reading Rockets. (n.d.). https://www.readingrockets.org/reading-101/reading-and-writing-basics/reading-comprehension 

National Reading Panel, 2000, Teaching Children to Read: An Evidence-Based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature of Reading and Its Implications for Reading Instruction , https://www.nichd.nih.gov/sites/default/files/publications/pubs/nrp/Documents/report.pdf

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Learning to read is an exciting milestone for kindergarteners. Early reading skills include letter recognition, phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, and sight word recognition. Go beyond worksheets to improve kindergarten reading comprehension and skill through hands-on learning activities, games, and targeted techniques.

Key Takeaways: Building Comprehension

  • Build a foundation for comprehension by providing explicit phonics instruction and reinforcing new knowledge through interactive games.
  • Select books with repetitive text that focus on topics your child enjoys, and read each one multiple times. Repetition encourages comprehension.
  • While you read, help your child make connections by asking questions about the story and encouraging them to visualize it.
  • Use anchor charts for reading comprehension . These can include reminders about decoding techniques, making connections, or visualizing the story.

Start with a Strong Foundation

Overall reading success, including strong comprehension skills, begins with phonemic awareness. More than merely reciting the alphabet, kindergartners need to learn the sounds that each letter makes. Phonemic awareness also includes:

  • Blending individual sounds
  • Isolating beginning and ending sounds and recognizing words that start or end with the same sounds
  • Segmenting words into individual sounds

Children need explicit phonics instruction. This instruction builds on phonemic awareness to teach the relationship between letters or groups of letters and sounds. The most effective phonics instruction follows a specific sequence beginning with vowel and consonant sounds and building to two- and three-letter blends, double consonant ends, plural words, and diagraphs (letter blends such as ch , sh , bl , and th ).

Kindergarten students should work on recognizing high-frequency words commonly known as sight words. Fry words and Dolch sight words are two such word lists. 

Play Kindergarten Reading Games

Get young children involved in hands-on activities that improve their phonemic awareness and reading comprehension skills.

Roll Word Families

Start with two blank dice. On one, write word-beginning consonant sounds, such as b , s , t , m , p , and r . On the second, write word-ending vowel-consonant sounds, such as at , op , an , in , ap and et ). Ensure that the child will be able to combine the beginning and ending sounds to create consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words.

To play, invite your child to roll the dice and read the resulting word. Some of the combinations will be nonsense words, but that’s OK. Nonsense words still provide practice blending sounds. If desired, ask students to identify which words are real and which are nonsense.

Send children on a CVC or sight word scavenger hunt through classroom books with a simple I Spy game. Ask them to search the books for CVC or sight words, then report back on the words they find.

Act Out Passages

Encourage students to act out a scene from a book they are reading. This fun, simple activity adds meaning to the words on the page and helps children focus on and visualize those meanings.

Use a preprinted sight word bingo card or fill a blank template with sight words or CVC words. Create a few different card options and give one to each student, along with marker chips. Call out the words one at a time. As students locate each word on their card, they will cover it with a marker until they have five in a row.

Reading Recommendations for Kindergarten

When looking for books that kindergarten students can read independently (or with a little help), it’s important to keep a few things in mind:

  • Use the five-finger rule. If a student makes five errors reading a page from a book, it’s too hard. One error is too easy. Four errors might mean the book is acceptable for the student to try with some help. The sweet spot for a "just right" book is only two or three errors per page.
  • It's OK for children to read the same book multiple times. It may seem as if this isn’t helpful for reading comprehension because they are memorizing the text. Becoming comfortable and familiar with text improves reading fluency, vocabulary, and word recognition. 
  • Reading books with repetitive text, such as "The Foot Book" or "Hop on Pop" by Dr. Seuss , improves reading comprehension. Include books with familiar sight words such as "Big Brown Bear" or "Big Pig, Little Pig," both by David McPhail. 

Help students select children's books on topics that interest them. Keep in mind that some children prefer fiction books while others thrive on nonfiction. Try nonfiction books written for early readers such as "Baby Pandas" by Bethany Olson, "Big Shark, Little Shark" by Anna Membrino, or "On a Farm" by Alexa Andrews.

Kindergarten Reading Comprehension Assessment

One of the easiest ways to assess reading comprehension in kindergarten students is the Informal Reading Inventory, also known as a Qualitative Reading Inventory. The IRI allows instructors to individually assess a student’s fluency, word recognition, vocabulary, comprehension, and oral reading accuracy.

Kindergarten students should be assessed in the middle and at the end of the school year. Children are usually asked to read a passage aloud. Reading fluency rate is determined by how many correct words a student reads in one minute. Oral reading accuracy can help an instructor determine a student’s reading level and ability to decode words.

Comprehension can be checked by asking questions about the passage or asking the student to summarize what he read. Vocabulary is assessed through open-ended questions about words in the passage.

Model Good Reading Habits

It is important for children to see that their parents and teachers value reading. Teachers can help by setting aside 15 to 20 minutes for silent reading each day. During this time, students and their teacher choose books to read silently. Parents can help by ensuring that children see them reading at home.

Teachers and parents should read aloud to students regularly so that children can hear the role that reading rate and voice inflection play in fluency. Choose books that are above the level that children could read on their own to expose them to new vocabulary. Parents should make bedtime stories part of their nightly routine.

Ask Questions

Improve kindergarten students’ reading comprehension by asking questions. Before reading, look at the book’s title and illustrations and ask students to make predictions about what will happen.

During the story, ask questions about what is going on, what students think will happen next, or what they would do if they were the main character. After the story, ask questions about what happened, how the story made the children feel, or why they think the book ended the way it did.

Help Kindergartners Make Connections

Helping students make connections is another effective technique for improving comprehension. Give students a foundation for what they’re reading. Talk or watch a video about unfamiliar experiences before reading about them.

Help children connect stories to their own experiences. When reading a book about a boy getting a new puppy, for example, talk to students about who has a pet. Ask where they got their pet and how they chose it.

Teach Comprehension Strategies

Teach children what to do when they don’t understand what they’re reading. Instruct students to:

  • Reread the passage
  • Look at the pictures for clues
  • Think about what happened before or read what happens next

If those tips don’t help, students may be reading a book that is too difficult. Don’t forget the five-finger rule.

Build Vocabulary

Increasing a student’s vocabulary in an excellent way to improve their reading comprehension. Give students confidence in their budding reading skills by defining unfamiliar words ahead of time so that they don’t lose the meaning of the story.

Teach them to infer the meaning of a new word from the context of the story. For example, if a student reads, “The tiny ant goes in the little hole,” he may be unfamiliar with the word tiny but recognize little from his sight word list.

Teach kids to ask themselves questions such as, “What could go through a little hole? Would it be something small or something big?” By reading the word in context, kids can learn to infer that tiny must mean small or little.

Encourage Visualization

Teach children to create mental images, often called brain movies or mind movies, when they are reading. Ask them to draw a picture of what is going on or what the character is thinking or feeling. Instruct them to use their five senses to picture the action of the story in their mind.

Envisioning the action of a story is a fun way to improve students’ reading comprehension.

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Kindergarten reading comprehension: 8 simple ways to engage.

Reading comprehension in kindergarten is a huge part of kindergarten reading standards . We start by focusing on listening comprehension as we introduce students to stories and foster that early love of reading. Soon though, after they have mastered letter sounds and started decoding simple stories, we move to focusing on reading comprehension. Although it can seem overwhelming to have to help students learn to both read and understand what they have read, teaching reading comprehension in kindergarten can be fun!

Why Kindergarten Reading Comprehension Matters

Kindergarten reading comprehension means that students aren’t simply memorizing sight words and recalling them, or decoding words correctly without putting any meaning to it. If a student can read a simple story and actually understand what the story is about, then they are able to do more than just simply answer questions about the text.

These students can move towards making connections with the text and themselves and other texts. They can also analyze the story and reflect on different events or problems. Kindergarten reading compression is the foundation for these higher order thinking skills they will need throughout their school years and onward.

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How to Teach Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten

Decodable Books

Teaching kindergarten reading comprehension with decodable texts is a first step to help students start off with success. Using texts focusing on already mastered phonics patterns and learned sight words means that student will be able to successfully decode these texts. I like to use phonics fluency to target learned patterns and then ask comprehension questions about these simple passages. Students are more confident going back in the text to look for answers, answering verbally, or even illustrating to show their comprehension when they can more easily decode the text.

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Close Reads

Close reads allow for students to dive deeper into a book since it involves repeated reading of a story throughout the week. Since this comprehension strategy usually focuses on the teacher reading a book instead of the student, it is easier to use texts where students can do more critical thinking. You can choose a text with more challenging vocabulary and focus on analyzing the text such as why the author did certain things or how the characters felt, etc. These are usually great books to ask your students if they have any questions about the text while reading, because they become more confident with the text over the week.

Leveled Questioning

Leveled questioning goes hand in hand with close reading and kindergarten reading comprehension in general. While you still need those basic questions such as who was the character, or what happened at the beginning, planning more challenging questioning can stimulate better conversations and comprehension of the text. I like to use sticky notes to write down my questions ahead of time and place them in my stories, especially my close reads. This allows me to be prepared with questions that go beyond gathering information, and prompt my students to process and apply new information to the story.

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Making Connections

Kindergarten students love to share and so making connections is an easy way to work on comprehension and keep them engaged! When we begin to read a story I often try and invoke prior knowledge before we begin. Asking students if they know anything about the topic or have experienced a similar situation can activate that background knowledge and make them more excited about reading. After reading the story, students can show their comprehension of the text by making further connections either to an experience they have or to another text. Text to text connections is a great way to show that students comprehend the story at hand.

Making Predictions

Predicting is a fun way to get students engaged in the text and analyzing if they are making predictions that make sense. Students can look at the cover of the book and predict what they think it will be about. Mid-reading you can ask them to predict what will happen next after reading a few events. After reading, students could predict what would happen in the next book and this can be a fun activity to do if you are reading a series or doing an author’s study. I like to have my students analyze whether their predictions were correct or not and practice making predictions that make sense.

Explicit vocabul ary instruction is something I value in my classroom. I love to review unfamiliar words before reading and give direct instruction on these vocabulary words. Teaching these words and giving my students resources, such as their own vocabulary anchor charts, helps them better understand what those words mean and aids in their comprehension of the text we are reading. This is especially helpful when we are reading nonfiction texts which can often be harder for my students to process.

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Visualization

One of my favorite strategies to incorporate in my classroom is visualization. I like to tell my students to see a movie in their mind about what they just read. I will prompt them to watch their mind movie after they read a story before they answer any comprehension questions and it helps them pause and retell the story to themselves. Sometimes they illustrate their movie to show the comprehension of a text, such as summarizing the key ideas in one picture, or retelling the main events. I also like to take this further and have them illustrate what they think might happen after the story ends, extending the task and making a higher order challenge.

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I love any chance I get to utilize hands on activities in my classroom. Adapted books come in handy when teaching reading kindergarten reading comprehension in multiple hands on ways. The pieces allow students to match a target vocabulary word on each page, making sure they stay engaged and focused while decoding each part of the story.

There are visual comprehension pages where students read the question and then pick one of two pieces to show the answer. Sometimes I use the printable versions of these comprehension tasks if I need data for IEP progress or interventions. Students can also practice the comprehension skill of retelling a story by using the file folders to put the story in order after reading.

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Teaching Kindergarten Reading Comprehension Takeaways

Teaching reading in kindergarten reading comprehension is important to ensure students are actually understanding what they read. A student who can read accurately and fluently but has no comprehension after reading is not going to be getting any knowledge or joy out of reading. We can target this skill in a fun way and help students learn to love reading and all that they can learn from it.

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With this free kindergarten reading comprehension mystery picture, students will read the passage, answer questions, and then color the picture based on their answers. It is easy for the teacher to see if they are comprehending based on the final picture, and students are engaged in the task to see what mystery picture is revealed.

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I have created these reading comprehension worksheets for kindergarten students.

In these worksheets, I’ve given very small and easy sentences so kids can read them easily.

Once they read out the comprehension then they will find some questions related to it. They have to find the answers and write them.

You will find five pages in this reading comprehension worksheet.

I’ve kept the comprehension topics interesting for kids, the topic includes cat, apple, shop, elephant and car.

The Elephant Reading Comprehension Worksheet

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This reading worksheet is about an elephant. Kids will read out the comprehension and then answer the simple questions.

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Practicing these worksheets not it will improve their reading skills but also increase their ability to solve problems themselves.

As they have to find the answers themselves from the comprehensions.

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Reading Comprehension Strategies for Preschool Students

Reading comprehension – understanding and interpreting what is read – is one of the most important skills for students of all ages. Even when preschoolers are not yet able to read, they love to be read TO. A wise teacher uses before, during, and after reading a story as teaching time. Here are eight strategies for developing budding reading comprehension skills in even the youngest learners.

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Before Reading

The goals of using a comprehension strategy with students before  reading a story are to help them focus their attention, to activate their prior knowledge, and get them excited to read it! It is tough for students to transition to storytime, sit down, and just start reading. Teachers must “prep” them a little bit to be good listeners. There are lots of ways to accomplish this.  Here are 3 strategies that work well:

Purposes of Before Reading strategies

  • Activate student’s prior knowledge
  • Set the stage for reading
  • Get the children excited about the book!

Reading Comprehension Strategy #1 – Have a Book Talk

Book talk ideas.

  • Give the children a “teaser” about what is to come
  • Introduce the characters and explain the problem
  • Invite the children to make a prediction

Knuffle Bunny  by Mo Willems is a perfect story for engaging students during a book talk. Young children find the main character, Trixie, very relatable and can empathize with the angst that she feels when her beloved stuffed toy is misplaced. The teacher can draw students in further by bringing a favorite stuffed toy or classroom mascot to the carpet, or even bring one of their own toys from their childhood. Discuss how the toy goes everywhere, it sleeps in the bed with the owner and is very important to that person. Then, ask the students if anyone has a special stuffed animal or blanket. Ask the students to imagine, “How would you feel if your special toy got lost?” After sharing their ideas, read about what happens to Trixie. (And for students that have lost their special items, try LostMyLovey.com to search for replacements or even the item itself!)

Reading Comprehension Strategy #2 – Book in a Bag

Book in a bag ideas.

  • Put together a few small props or pictures that represent the story
  • Pull them out one at a time and invite the children to make a prediction about the story

Preschoolers (and many older students!) are visual learners. When the teacher sits down to read a story with a mysterious bag full of objects, it is guaranteed to grab their attention! Fill a gift bag with items and pictures from the story and pull them out one at a time. As each item is revealed, encourage the students to make a prediction about the story. What is it going to be about? Here is an example for a bag of objects for There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose!

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Reading Comprehension Strategy #3 – Key Word

Key word ideas.

  • Choose 1 important word from the story
  • Discuss the meaning of the word
  • Have students give examples of the word
  • Encourage children to make predictions

Introducing a “Key Word” is another way to get students thinking about the story before reading it. For example, in The Scarecrow’s Hat  by Ken Brown, ask students if anyone knows what swap  means. Discuss how “swap” means to trade. Next, invite them to talk about things they like to swap. Then, tell them that in The Scarecrow’s Hat , Chicken wants to swap something with Scarecrow. Encourage students to make predictions about what they might swap. Finally, read the story together.

During Reading

There are three strategies that teachers can use during reading . While reading aloud to children, the most important thing is the enjoyment of the book, of course. Young children benefit from being active listeners. They need to listen with their voices and their bodies in order to comprehend! Teachers can involve them by doing the following:

Reading Comprehension Strategy #4 – Incorporate Movement

Incorporating movement ideas.

  • Have students use props from the story
  • Have students use their bodies to mimic motions in the story
  • Use simple musical instruments, such as shaker eggs, at key phrases

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything  is an all-around fantastic book for fall. It is a good example of how to incorporate movement while reading a book to young children. The Little Old Lady in the story meets 2 big shoes on the path to her cottage, and the shoes go, “Clomp! Clomp!” It is so much fun for the children to “clomp” their own shoes.  They also love it when they are provided props to go with the story– shoes, pants, a shirt, gloves, a hat, and a pumpkin head. As the teacher reads, they take turns moving the props to match the story. So much fun and the students are completely engaged!

Reading Comprehension Strategy #5 – Repeated Refrain

The reading jargon for repeating a refrain or line in a book is “Choral Reading.” It’s a term that means the children all join in reading the repeated lines in unison. The Pete the Cat books are perfect examples of this strategy.  In Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes , the repeated line is, “I love my white shoes. I love my white shoes! I love my white shoes, etc.” It’s so catchy that the students will have a hard time not  joining in!

Just a quick note: Be sure that you get the free audio downloads to go along with your Pete   the Cat books. They’re just not the same without the audio!

Reading Comprehension Strategy #6 – Sequencing

Sequencing ideas.

  • Use pictures of story events
  • Have students place pictures in a pocket chart as they happen

A final “During Reading” strategy perfect for preschoolers is Sequencing . Thinking ahead to elementary school, we know that students will have to retell stories with a beginning, middle, and end. They will have to recount events of a book in order. Preschool teachers can prepare them for this essential elementary skill by giving students practice putting events in order. One way to do this is to print pictures from the story and give them to students before reading. They can then place the pictures on a felt board, pocket chart, or easel in order as the story progresses.

After Reading

We know that in order for children to understand a story well, they have to start thinking about it before reading. They might look at the pictures and make a prediction. Then, while we read, we can involve the children by encouraging them to move and read with us. Now that the book is finished, there are other things we can do to reinforce the story and extend the students’ understanding.  

After Reading Comprehension Goals

  • Reflect on the story
  • Make Connections
  • Revisit the story

Reading Comprehension Strategy #7 – Act it Out

Lots of stories lend themselves to “Acting it Out.” After reading The Three Billy Goats Gruff , for example, students can play “billy goats” by using a low balance beam to make a bridge and take turns TRIP-TRAPPING across it. Adding goats to the block center encourages students who want to build a bridge there. Simple costumes, such as themed hats made from paper for “The Little Red Hen” at the dramatic play center, ensure the story’s reenactments. Puppets and other toys that mimic the main characters in other centers and access to the story itself make this a simple way for students to tell and retell the story.

Reading Comprehension Strategy #8 – Compare Similar Stories

Another important elementary school comprehension skill is “Making Connections.” Students can make a connection in one of three ways:

  • TEXT to SELF – Does this book remind you of something that happened to you?
  • TEXT to TEXT – Does this book remind you of another book?
  • TEXT to WORLD – Does this book remind you of something you know about in the world (another place, a movie, a person you know, etc.)?  

When reading a story to young children, teachers can encourage them to compare the story to something else that they know about. After reading Corduroy , students might tell about their favorite stuffed animal. They can compare Lisa’s love of Corduroy to their own (Text to Self). It also might remind them about the Knuffle Bunny story mentioned earlier (Text to Text). They might even remember that Corduroy was purchased in a department store, much like one they saw in an ad on TV (Text to World).

The most important thing for the students is that they gain a love of reading first. These skills take it to the next level, providing more enjoyment and understanding, valuable skills for when they move to grade school and beyond.

An Important Note:

While using reading strategies with children, it is important to keep their attention spans in mind. It is crucial to remember these strategies should not all be employed on the same day, or even on the same story. Never use more than one strategy from each section with each book, and try to make it quick! The goal is to get students thinking about the book, but most of the time and effort should be the act of reading and enjoying the story.

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Kindergarten-2nd Grade Decodable Reading Fluency Passages Bundle | Comprehension

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This bundle includes 45 Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade decodable reading fluency passages with comprehension questions all that focus on phonics patterns. These decodable reading fluency passages are great for building fluency skills while focusing on decoding and comprehension. Students will complete a quick check fluency informal assessment with you to show the progress they're making on their fluency skills.

Fluency is such an important skill to work on, and assess, as it helps many literacy skills, including comprehension. The purpose of this pack is to help students develop their fluent reading skills: accuracy, expression, natural pace, smoothness and comprehension.

What's included?

There are 45 decodable Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd Grade reading fluency passages included.

The passages include a gradual progression of phonics patterns that follow a scope & sequence. A variety of phonics patterns are included in the passages, from easiest to hardest- CVC, Digraphs, Beginning Blends, Ending Blends, Added Endings, CVCe words, R-controlled Vowels, Vowel Teams/ Long Vowel Sounds, and Diphthongs .

Comprehension questions are included on the same page for easy transferring of knowledge.

A Fluency and Comprehension Quick Check is also included for the teacher to mark up when students read one-on-one after their repeated readings of the passage. On this page students will also complete a self assessment and set fluency goals.

  • The Kindergarten Set includes 15 decodable reading fluency passages that focus solely on CVC words .
  • The 1st Grade Set includes 15 decodable reading fluency passages written at a 1st grade reading level with a gradual progression of phonics patterns: CVC, Digraphs, Beginning Blends, Ending Blends, Added Endings, CVCe words, R-controlled Vowels, and Vowel Teams .
  • The 2nd Grade Set includes 15 decodable reading fluency passages written at a 2nd grade reading level with a gradual progression of phonics patterns: CVC, Digraphs, Beginning Blends, Ending Blends, Added Endings, CVCe words, R-controlled Vowels, Vowel Teams/ Long Vowel Sounds, and Diphthongs .

Also included:

  • Fluency folder covers
  • Fluent reader reminder posters and mini posters
  • Data tracking pages (individual and whole class)
  • Fluent reader awards
  • Answer key for comprehension questions

How do you use these reading fluency passages?

  • Students will read the passage one time. (The Kindergarten set also has words to decode, and a sentence, prior to reading the passage.)
  • Next, students will read through the story 2 more times, for repeated reading practice, to build their fluency skills. They will color in a circle for each reading.
  • Once the repeated readings are complete, students will write their responses to the comprehension questions.
  • Students will then bring their passage up to you for a one-on-one informal assessment. You will mark up the teacher copy of the passage, noting any errors or self corrections. You will list the overall score for the number of words read correctly on the passage. You will also list the number of comprehension questions answered correctly.
  • On that same teacher page, students will complete a self assessment, marking which aspects of fluent reading they did. They will then choose fluency goals to improve.

Following up:

You can then input the reader's data into the data tracking sheet. You can also provide the student with a fluent reader award when they make progress/do well.

With all the parts that are included in this bundle, it is a complete fluency reading program for you to use with your readers!

Who are these reading fluency passages for?

  • Classroom teachers
  • Special education teachers with student fluency goals
  • Reading specialists/interventionists/reading teachers
  • Classroom aides/assistants
  • Parent helpers
  • ESL teachers
  • For homework/extra practice

This bundle of Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade decodable reading fluency passages is intended for readers who are working on their decoding of various phonics patterns in context.

Students can practice improving their fluent reader skills in small groups, in a fluency center, or during independent work. The fluency assessment should be done one-on-one with you. You can also send these fluency reading passages home for extra help. If you have students who need help with their fluent reader skills, this is a great way to get them to practice.

The goal of this pack is to help your Kindergarten-2nd Grade readers improve their fluency abilities and, in turn, their overall reading skills as well.

I hope you and your students love these decodable reading fluency passages with comprehension questions!

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A Collaborative Strategy to Increase Reading Comprehension in World Language Classes

Similar to the jigsaw method, Quote, Quote, Mingle is designed to have students work together to figure out the main idea of a passage.

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A few years ago, I learned about a strategy called Quote, Quote, Mingle from our middle school instructional coach at a professional development session. This strategy helps students gain knowledge by having conversations with their peers based on what they’ve read. The more people you talk to, the more information you get to help you develop a fuller picture of the topic. (I still remember the article we read that day about a panda’s sixth digit—a rudimentary, thumblike bone extension.)

This strategy may sound familiar. It has a lot in common with the jigsaw method, but while the jigsaw method asks groups of students to become “experts” on different aspects of a topic and then share their findings with their classmates, Quote, Quote, Mingle requires students to hypothesize about a text while posing questions and drawing inferences about it based on reading a small part of it.

As world language teachers, we try to integrate as many texts as we can to expand our learners’ reading capacity. However, teaching informational text with Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary can be challenging, which also makes learning engagement inevitably decrease. So, under these circumstances, I invited one of our Chinese teachers and her classes to try this strategy, and it worked well in an elementary setting.

The learning goal was to understand the main idea of a third-grade informational text in Chinese, which introduced the history and impact of potatoes on our everyday lives. Before implementing the strategy, we also did some preparation work to make the whole process clearer for students to understand.

Getting Started

The teacher and I broke down the informational text into bite-size pieces. For instance, we segmented the text about potatoes into six parts and put them on index cards. Each student then received a card with part of the article on it.

During the implementation, we followed these steps:

  • The teacher describes the activity to students with the instructions, “We’re going to read an article, and you need to find the main idea. You will move around in the classroom with an index card and exchange information with three classmates, which we call a mingle. And I will set a four-minute timer to remind you when a mingle session is finished. Then, you need to talk to another group of three people and share the ‘quotes’ from the last session.”
  • The teacher then sets a timer to remind students to get ready for the next mingle session and instructs them to talk with other classmates. We both walk around the classroom during this time to check in with any students who need help or more clarification.
  • Next, the teacher instructs the students to go back to their initial groups and share the information they gathered from these mingle sessions. The teacher invites the students to identify the main idea based on the group discussion, and they jot it down on chart paper.
  • Students share their findings with the whole class, and the teachers may comment on the differences or similarities. For the final step, students read the whole text, and the teacher encourages them to find the parts that have been validated or contradicted through discussion.

We stress that the students need to discuss the main idea with every person they talk to. We find that this instruction creates a meaningful opportunity for them to interact with the texts and peers.

3 Takeaways from Using Quote, Quote Mingle

1. This activity engages students in meaningful conversations. It forces students to read the pieces carefully and summarize them before engaging in conversation with their classmates. They need to stay focused to remember their peers’ sharing when exchanging information.

2. Quote, Quote, Mingle encourages active participation and collaboration with body movement. We tend to think teaching informational text is challenging, and the most common approach is for teachers to explain the difficult parts for students via direct instruction. However, this method diminishes students’ active participation and ownership of their own learning. Using a collaborative approach in academic reading helps to ease students’ anxiety when they encounter unfamiliar topics.

3. This strategy promotes language proficiency and fluency. Reading these bite-size pieces and summarizing them is great practice for reading comprehension. Plus, using conversation to exchange information requires students to fine-tune their word choices and presentation in a time-constrained setting. The more they talk to their peers, the more opportunities they will have for language fluency.

Incorporating collaborative strategies for language learning shifts students from being passive receivers when it comes to reading to active learners. It also encourages students to think aloud when communicating with their peers, which also helps them to reflect on their understanding of the text.

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