Enhance your child's reading skills with our engaging Reading Comprehension Worksheets tailored for ages 5-6! Designed to foster early literacy, these worksheets provide fun and interactive activities that promote understanding and retention of key concepts. Through colorful illustrations and relatable themes, children will practice identifying main ideas, sequencing events, and making predictions. Our comprehensive resources are aligned with educational standards, making them perfect for both classroom and at-home learning. With easy-to-follow instructions, parents and educators can effortlessly guide young readers on their reading journey. Download our worksheets today to ignite a love for reading in your child!


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l or i? Worksheet
l or i? Worksheet

l or i? Worksheet

Trace the dotted lines on this worksheet to connect pictures with their lowercase letter. Ask your child what each picture is and the first letter of the word. Guide them to trace the letter with the dotted lines.
l or i? Worksheet
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Craft and Structure: Assessment 1 Worksheet
Craft and Structure: Assessment 1 Worksheet

Craft and Structure: Assessment 1 Worksheet

Fairytales are a great way to bond with your kids while teaching them. Popular stories include Little Red Riding Hood and Three Little Pigs. Test how well they understood these two with this assessment worksheet. Ask them to compare the two stories and check what is the same. Doing this will help kids learn new words and sentence construction, as well as teaching them life lessons.
Craft and Structure: Assessment 1 Worksheet
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Where Does the Character Belong? Worksheet
Where Does the Character Belong? Worksheet

Where Does the Character Belong? Worksheet

Fairy Tales are a great way to teach young ones about settings, characters and other literary elements. This worksheet contains illustrations from popular fairy tales to help kids identify characters and match them to the right settings. It's a fun way to improve recall skills and enhance comprehension using visuals.
Where Does the Character Belong? Worksheet
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Can You Match the Sentence? Worksheet
Can You Match the Sentence? Worksheet

Can You Match the Sentence? Worksheet

Kids gain fluency with this worksheet which uses bright pictures. They select the sentence that matches the image and check the box. This repetition of words and phrases helps them improve their reading skills while having fun.
Can You Match the Sentence? Worksheet
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Draw a Line to the Picture Books Worksheet
Draw a Line to the Picture Books Worksheet

Draw a Line to the Picture Books Worksheet

Encourage your students to read and explore with this fun exercise! They'll draw a line from the word 'picture books' to the five objects. Picture books are exciting, with stories and colorful images. Make story time even more enjoyable with this worksheet!
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Front of the Book Worksheet
Front of the Book Worksheet

Front of the Book Worksheet

Help your child become a reader with this free worksheet! It's full of fun new friends and is designed to help kids understand concepts about the front of a book. They'll look at each picture and decide which friend is holding the book with the front cover, and check off the correct answer in the given boxes. Get your little one ready to be a reader!
Front of the Book Worksheet
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Pre reading worksheet guess my name
Pre reading worksheet guess my name

Pre Reading Worksheet Guess My Name

Guess My Name is a fun way to practice inference skills. Guess My Name is a fun pre-reading game to help your child practice drawing inferences from clues. With colorful illustrations, they'll use clues to match each elephant with its sentence and sharpen their inference skills.
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Reading skills, particularly reading comprehension, are crucial for children aged 5-6 as they lay the foundation for future academic success and personal development. At this age, children are transitioning from learning to read to reading to learn. Strong reading comprehension skills enable them to understand and interact with the world around them, enhancing their cognitive development and critical thinking capabilities.

Parents and teachers should care because developing these skills fosters a love for learning and exploration, encouraging children to ask questions and seek knowledge independently. Early reading experiences also strengthen vocabulary, language skills, and overall communication abilities, which are pivotal in all subjects, not just language arts. Furthermore, children who struggle with comprehension at this early stage may face challenges later, leading to difficulties in school and reduced self-confidence.

Investing time and resources into nurturing reading comprehension can create lifelong readers and learners. Activities like reading together, discussing stories, and asking open-ended questions empower children to think deeply and articulate their thoughts. Overall, supporting reading skills at this formative age is essential for equipping children with the necessary tools to navigate their educational journeys and to thrive in an ever-changing world.