Grade 2 English: Reading Comprehension

Free Grade 2 English unit on Reading Comprehension: 10 lessons in order, starting with Main ideas. Includes practice questions and answer keys.

10 lessons in this unit

Find the main idea of a short text: the most important point that the whole text is about.

Find facts and examples in a text that support or explain the main idea.

Put the events of a story in the order they happened, using words like first, next, then and finally.

Understand why characters do what they do by looking at their actions, words and feelings.

Use clues from the title, pictures and text to say what might happen next, then check your prediction.

Work out things the author does not say directly by using clues in the text and what you already know.

Tell how two stories are alike and different, looking at characters, setting and what happens.

Tell the most important parts of a text in a few sentences, in your own words.

Read texts that give facts, such as articles and books about animals, places and how things work.

Answer questions about a text by going back to the text and finding the answer, using full sentences.