Enhance your child's reading skills with our specially designed reading comprehension worksheets for ages 7-9. Kids Academy offers a wide variety of fun and engaging worksheets focused on building critical reading skills such as understanding main ideas, making inferences, and summarizing. Through these carefully crafted activities, young learners can improve their ability to understand and analyze texts while fostering a love of reading. Perfect for both classroom use and at-home practice, our worksheets cater to different reading levels and interests, ensuring that every child finds a way to enjoy and benefit from their reading journey. Start today and watch their confidence soar!


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Distinguish Between Words with Long A and Short A

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Reading: Long a and Short a Worksheet
Reading: Long a and Short a Worksheet

Reading: Long a and Short a Worksheet

This printable helps students practice distinguishing the long and short A sound. Pictures provide clues to read each word and students identify if it has a short or long sound. By completing this worksheet, children gain mastery of the phonics skill.
Reading: Long a and Short a Worksheet
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Common Prefixes Worksheet: RE, PRE, MIS
Common Prefixes Worksheet: RE, PRE, MIS

Common Prefixes Worksheet: RE, PRE, MIS

Transform your child's language skills with this simple prefix worksheet! Kids learn to identify the prefixes RE, PRE and MIS while reading fun sentences. Easily build their language understanding with this engaging activity!
Common Prefixes Worksheet: RE, PRE, MIS
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Free printable synonym worksheets for 2nd grade
Free printable synonym worksheets for 2nd grade

Free Printable Synonym Worksheet

Our free printable synonym worksheet for 2nd grade will help kids learn similar words to expand their vocabulary. Kids will have fun challenging themselves to find all the words that are synonyms for “cold”. Enhance their language and writing with this joyful worksheet!
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Reading comprehension is a fundamental skill for children aged 7-9, and its improvement should be a priority for both parents and teachers. During these formative years, children transition from learning to read to reading to learn, and strong comprehension skills lay a critical foundation for future academic success. Improving reading comprehension enhances vocabulary, language development, and critical thinking, essential tools for effective communication and problem-solving.

When children understand what they read, they can more easily grasp new concepts across subjects, including math, science, and social studies. This not only boosts their confidence but also fosters a love for learning and reading, making them more likely to pursue knowledge independently. Furthermore, proficient readers are better equipped to analyze texts, distinguish between facts and opinions, and approach obstacles with thoughtful strategies.

From an emotional and social perspective, good reading comprehension allows children to empathize with characters, understand diverse perspectives, and engage in meaningful conversations with their peers. This can lead to improved social interactions and deeper, more empathetic interpersonal relationships.

For teachers, engaging in comprehension improvement activities ensures that their educational methods are effective and impactful. For parents, it helps to support and nurture their child's academic growth and lifelong learning skills. In essence, fostering reading comprehension in early childhood opens doors to unlimited knowledge and opportunities.