Free Reading Comprehension Worksheets

This page contains hundreds of quality free reading comprehension worksheets and represents the best in free online reading comprehension materials. Our worksheets are colorful, unique, and provide interesting information about a range of subjects. This enables students to improve their reading comprehension skills and expand their vocabulary while simultaneously learning about an intriguing subject. What is more, our worksheets elicit the usage of critical thinking skills on behalf of the reader-- even at the beginning level. While some questions ask the reader to peruse the passage for particular details, most questions involve the use of deductive reasoning, conclusion making, logical inference, sequential analysis, tonal awareness, and an understanding of scope. Each worksheet contains comprehension and vocabulary questions about the attached passage. Beginning worksheets are under 500 words long. Intermediate are approximately 500 words long. Advanced are 500-1000 words long.

Please note that our level system is not necessarily correlated in any way to U.S. grade school levels. We provide these levels as a rough guide, and urge teachers to rely on their own judgments regarding the level of difficulty appropriate for their own, individual applications.

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Short Story Reading Comprehension Worksheets

Our free short story worksheets teach students to apply a range of valuable reading comprehension techniques and strategies. Worksheets in this section involve finding answers to retention oriented questions concerning sequence, memory, skimming and rereading. But perhaps more importantly, they encourage the reader to think critically. At every level, our exercises challenge the reader to perform their own interpretations, make deductions, logical inferences and conclusions. Critical thinking questions used inquire about the tone of the passage, main idea, scope, intention and more.

Informational Passages Reading Comprehension Worksheets

In these free reading comprehension worksheets, students are asked questions about information they have read about a specific topic. Each passage reads similar to a newspaper of journal article, and provides interesting information about some aspect of history, nature, mechanics, science, art, and more. Questions involve critical thinking with a focus on logic and inference.

Critical Reading Comprehension Worksheets

In these free reading comprehension worksheets, students are asked questions about the meaning, significance, intention, structure, inference, and vocabulary used in each passage. Each passage reads like an encyclopedic or technical journal article. Answers for worksheets in this section can be found at the end of each individual worksheet.

Role Play Reading Comprehension Worksheets

In these free reading comprehension worksheets, students can increase their understanding of colloquial and idiomatic expressions and get a feel for conversational English. They also allow several students to participate at the same time - which makes them really fun! Great for use in school or at home.

Dual Version Reading Comprehension Worksheets

In each of these free reading comprehension worksheets, the same story is told, but with two versions: one that is basic, and one that is more advanced. This allows students to make direct comparisons between the advanced version to the more basic one, and makes for a powerful learning experience.