Reading Comprehension Books

Explore 23 curated reading comprehension books for homeschoolers and educators. Each resource has been reviewed for quality before being listed.

A common topic for early learners and ESL learners, reading comprehension is critical to being truly fluent in English. Use the resources in this section to practice and refine comprehension skills. They cover a broad range of learning levels, so you can use the filters on the right to help you find ones appropriate for you or your student.

Evan-Moor Daily Reading Comprehension, Grade 2

Daily 10-15 minute reading comprehension practice with fiction and nonfiction passages and strategy-based questions for second graders.

Evan-Moor Daily Reading Comprehension, Grade 6

Daily reading comprehension practice with increasingly complex passages building inference, analysis, and critical thinking for sixth graders.

Scholastic Success with Reading Comprehension, Grade 1

Engaging reading comprehension workbook with fiction and nonfiction passages teaching main idea, sequence, and inference skills for first graders.

Scholastic Success with Reading Comprehension, Grade 3

Third-grade reading comprehension workbook with diverse passages building inference, cause-effect, and critical thinking skills.

Scholastic Success with Reading Comprehension, Grade 4

Fourth-grade reading comprehension workbook developing advanced inference, analysis, and text evidence skills through diverse passages.

Evan-Moor Daily Reading Comprehension, Grade 5

Daily 10-15 minute reading comprehension practice for 5th graders with 30 weeks of strategy-based lessons across diverse text types.

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Evan-Moor Daily Reading Comprehension, Grade 4

150 daily lessons for fourth graders with longer passages, advanced comprehension strategies, and emphasis on informational text.

Evan-Moor Daily Reading Comprehension, Grade 3

150 daily lessons building comprehension strategies through short passages with a Monday-Friday structure and explicit strategy instruction.

Spectrum Reading Workbook, Grade 2

Over 170 pages of grade-level reading passages with comprehension questions covering main idea, sequencing, inference, and more.

Spectrum Reading Workbook, Grade 3

Over 170 pages of third-grade reading passages with comprehension exercises covering main idea, predictions, fact vs. opinion, and vocabulary.

Beyond The Code

Develop Comprehension and Reasoning Skills This four-book series helps students develop important comprehension and thinking skills at the earliest level. The books contain charmingly illustrated stories with exercises following the same phonetic str...

Primary Analogies

Introduce young students to sophisticated thinking skills as they learn to read As they solve and create analogies, students actively process information, make important connections, use information and skills to identify relationships, construct re...

Ridgewood Analogies

Help students become independent thinkers and problem solvers This series of books is based on curriculum developed by teachers in the Ridgewood, New Jersey, Public Schools. Ridgewood students begin in kindergarten to use analogies in language arts,...

Reading for Content

Help students improve their reading comprehension skills This series of 4 books is made up of reading selections, which are frequently revised and updated to maintain their high interest level. They deal with areas such as sports, hobbies, science,...

Reasoning & Reading

Building good reading comprehension, problem-solving, and analytical skills The Reasoning & Reading series is based on the belief that reasoning, language, and reading comprehension are essential, interdependent skills. The series carefully comb...

Stepping Stones - A Path to Critical Thinking

A path to critical thinking Stepping Stones workbooks are designed to introduce students to critical thinking skills that they will use throughout their academic careers. The books in the Stepping Stones series strive to present critical thinking in...

The Story of the U.S.A.

Develop vocabulary and comprehension skills The Story of the U.S.A. is a series of workbooks that present basic topics in American history in language that is easy to read and to understand, without sacrificing interest or scholarship. Written for t...

The Story of Western Civilization - How Civilization Began

Age-appropriate history that is simple to read The Story of Western Civilization is a series of 4 reading workbooks presenting specific segments of the history of Western civilization. The language level of each book has been carefully controlled so...

Starting Comprehension - Stories to Advance Reading & Thinking

Promote reading for meaning in beginning readers Starting Comprehension is based on the assumption that children do not all learn to use phonetic, semantic, and syntactic reading cues in the same order, or with the same ease. Students using this ser...

Reading Comprehension in Varied Subject Matter

Nonfiction reading passages with comprehension questions Each workbook in this series has reading selections covering social studies, science, literature, mathematics, philosophy, logic, language, the arts, and combined subjects. Books are arranged...

Making Connections

Making Connections® is a direct, systematic, and highly interactive comprehension program that teaches students strategies to build their comprehension. The program employs a scaffolded instructional plan that supports students by modeling, guiding,...

English 1, Understanding

Understanding English 1 gives students an in-depth knowledge of how sentences are organized. Through this knowledge, students learn to recognize and use good sentences. The first half of the course concentrates on sentence types, parts of speech, pun...

Analogies 1, 2, and 3

Help students master analogy problem-solving Studying analogies helps students sharpen reasoning ability, develop critical thinking, understand relationships between words and ideas, learn new vocabulary, and prepare for standardized tests. Each of...