2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Passages – Nonfiction Text Structures

Are you searching for engaging worksheets for your 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade students that include reading comprehension questions AND an activity? This resource comes with 20 informational passages to practice identifying text structures. Perfect for your students to practice cause & effect, sequencing, compare & contrast, and finding the problem & solution with nonfiction texts !

Color By Comprehension is designed as a one page reading passage, a set of multiple choice questions, and a half page coloring sheet that students color based on their answers to the comprehension questions.

Your Students Will:

• Work on reading comprehension skills
• Learn about nonfiction text structures and how to identify each
• Apply knowledge to understand the text within that structure
• Further develop their nonfiction knowledge
• Practice skills while completing the activities
• Learn new vocabulary
• Complete a coloring sheet after answering questions (self-check)

This set of nonfiction reading passages focuses on text structures. Each passage has 8 multiple choice questions. #1-5 are about text structures and 6-8 are comprehension about the passage.

Text structures included:

• description
• cause and effect
• sequence
• problem/solution
• compare/contrast

Differentiate based on what text structures you want your students to focus on!

Topics include:

Ski on Snow or Water?, Where Does That Bus Go?, Cities vs. Suburbs, French Fries Dip Decisions, Telephone Invention, Flying South, You Are What You Eat, Popsicle Flavors, Fire Helpers, What Do Camels Carry?, Swimming Cap Cover, Microscope Vision, Egypt, Sleepy Sloth, Magnificent Murals, Excavator, Paper Mache, Bees Pollinating, Ice Cream Sundae, Caterpillar Stages

Perfect to use as:

• reading centers
• small group work
• whole group
• sub worksheets
• partner work
• early finisher

Reviews from Teachers

3rd grade teacher Diressa said, “Awesomeness! Completely met the needs of all my learners.”

3rd grade teacher Miranda said, “We used this as a review for STAAR, and we are still using it! The kids enjoy the stories, and also get to have fun coloring. Thank you for the resource!”

Check out these resources:

Nonfiction Text Features Reading Passages Worksheets & Digital Slides

Text Features Task Cards Non- Fiction Reading Comprehension Passages