Grade 2 Reading Comprehension Worksheets

These worksheets introduce basic comprehension concepts and skills such as identifying the main ideas of a text and their supporting details , relating cause and effect , making predictions based on what has been read and distinguishing between fact and fiction and between fact and opinion . Students may need help in reading the texts and exercises.

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

Sequencing: put events in logical order

Story elements: identify the beginnings, a middle and endings of stories

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

Fact vs fiction: are these sentences expressing a fact or fiction?

Fact vs opinion: classify sentences from a text as fact or opinion.

Prediction worksheets: predicting what will be in a book based on its title

Sample grade 2 reading comprehension exercises

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