Reading and Comprehension Worksheets

An essential skill for all kids, reading expands comprehension and cultivates creativity and imagination. Reading worksheets for kids offer a great way to develop and improve reading skills.

Here are some interesting reading worksheets and reading activities to get the learning started!

Also browse through our vocabulary worksheets, alphabet worksheets, and English worksheets.

Reading Worksheets for Preschool

• Classic Rhymes
• Identifying the Letter 'C'

Reading Worksheets for Kindergarten

• Read and Color
  
• Rhyming Words - Dog
  
• Rhyming Words - Tree
  
• Rhyming Words - Cat
  
• Rhyme and Match
  
• Recognize the Rs
  
• Learn the Letters E - H
  
• Easy Reading - Short Vowel Sound I
  
• Easy Reading - Short Vowel Sound A
  
• Underline the Us
  
• Find the Es
  
• Find the Rhyme
• Draw a Rhyme
• Months’ Match-Up
• Coloring Fun
• Sorry, Wrong Sound
• Crayon Colors
• What’s the Sound?
• Beginning Consonants - Worksheets
• Beginning Consonant Blends Worksheets
• Rhyming Pictures 1
• Long Vowels - Silent-e
• Long Vowel Combinations

Reading Worksheets for 1st Grade

• Looks Can Deceive
• Animal Families
• Number the Story
• Sight Words
• Picture the Words
• What Does the Picture Say?
• Mixed-up Sentences
• Word Jumble

Reading Worksheets for 2nd Grade

• Fairy Tale Recipe
• Dave the Brave
• Digraph Bubbles
• Rhyming Pictures 2
• Amazing Blends
• Locked Out
• Trapping the Robbers: Adjectives
• Trapping the Robbers: Word Meanings
• Trapping the Robbers: Writing a Story
• Trapping the Robbers: Scrambled Sentences
• Test Your Word Power - III
• Test Your Word Power - IV
• Bingo the Storyteller
• Dingo Tale
• Getalong Gets Better
• Getalong Gets Better: Word Meanings
• Getalong Gets Better: Riddle Time
• Getalong Gets Better: Word Quiz
• Test Your Word Power - V
• Test Your Word Power - VI
• Fearless Fox and the Lion: Word Usage
• Fearless Fox and the Lion: Word Meanings
• Fearless Fox and the Lion: Jungle Trek
• Fearless Fox and the Lion: The Adventure
• What's the Good Verb? - I
• What's the Good Verb? - II
• A Day in the Life of Fearless: Word Usage
• A Day in the Life of Fearless: Word Meanings
• A Day in the Life of Fearless: Scrambled Sentences
• A Day in the Life of Fearless: What's it Like?
• Increase Your Verb Power: Word Usage
• Increase Your Verb Power: Word Meanings
• Increase Your Verb Power: Similar or Opposite?
• Increase Your Verb Power: Analogies
• Fearless Does It Again: The Jumbo Trap
• Fearless Does It Again: Word Meanings
• Fearless Does It Again: Finding the Lost City
• Fearless Does It Again: Analogies

Reading Worksheets for 3rd Grade

• Clear the Confusion
• Of Bills and Bargains: Word Usage
• Of Bills and Bargains: Word Meanings
• Of Bills and Bargains: Similar or Opposite
• Of Bills and Bargains: Descriptionary
• Nounorama: Word Usage
• Nounorama: Word Meanings
• Nounorama: Similar or Opposite?
• Nounorama: Jumbled Words
• Wilma's Greeting: Reading Comprehension
• Wilma's Greeting: Riddle Time!
• Land Ahoy!: Word Usage
• Land Ahoy!: Word Meanings
• Land Ahoy!: Analogies
• Land Ahoy!: The Pirates' Path

Reading Worksheets for 4th Grade

• Frankie's Friends
• Read Sylvia Plath
• Spook Fest
• Reading Comprehension

Reading Worksheets for 5th Grade

• The Letter O
• True or Not
• What do You Like to Read

Fun Short Stories for Kids

• Baby Blue's Day at the Zoo
• Eleanor Has a Map
• Frankie and CJ Take a Hike
• Pierre and the Big Peach
• Kisha's Big Job
• Where is Hopsalot?
• Frankie's Garden
• Kisha Likes to Paint
• CJ and the Chest of Gold
• Eleanor and the Bluebird
• Good Day for Music

• Time for a Treehouse
• Tweed's Treasure Hunt
• Baby Blue's Magic Broom
• Miggles and the Hungry Dragon
• Camping in the Country
• Miggles the Happy Camper
• Baby Blue's Wish
• No 'K' Corral
• Unday
• Count to Ten
• Country Mouse, City Mouse
• The Magic Tortilla
• Two of Everything
• Frog's Fiesta
• Tante Odette
• Three Strong Women
• Anansi and the Visitor
• Things Could Always Be Worse
• Stone Soup

Importance of Reading

Reading is an important life skill that everyone needs to learn. Being a good reader helps you do better in school but the benefits of reading are not limited to better grades. Reading opens up multiple windows to the world around us; encouraging us to learn, enjoy and maybe even create something in turn. And while school may teach your child to read and write, home is the best place to encourage his love for reading. If your child is too young, you need to build his pre-reading skills by reading to him, letting him see and touch the pictures and singing songs and nursery rhymes to him.

Free Reading Worksheets for Kids

An excellent resource for all parents and teachers, worksheets are great for tracking the learning curve of kids. There are a host of free and printable reading worksheets available online for kids of all ages. These worksheets encourage quick learning and expand horizons as kids sharpen their reading and comprehension skills.

At JumpStart, you will find a host of exciting and interesting reading activities and worksheets. They serve as great teaching aids for parents and teachers who are looking for ways to improve their kids’ reading abilities. Essential to a child’s academic growth, reading skills are important to master at an early age.

Different Kinds of Reading Activities and Worksheets for Kids

Reading can be an extremely enjoyable activity for kids. It opens up the kids to a whole new world as they improve their vocabulary, spelling and grammar. Our reading worksheets instill in kids an interest and aptitude for reading. Encouraging kids to develop an interest in reading has many advantages. It helps them write, comprehend and express themselves better.