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Improve your students’ Reading Comprehension Personalized reading comprehension exercises and actionable insights. For Grades K-12 and ESL students. Sign up for FREE! Explore School Plans Around the world, millions of students are benefiting from ReadTheory. 18,000,000 Students 700,000 Teachers 40,000 Schools scroll down to read more Why use ReadTheory? Adaptive Reach students where they are with adaptive technology that adjusts to each student’s specific reading level. Effective Improve students’ reading comprehension with proven standards-aligned exercises for grades K-12. Easy Get up and running in minutes with an easy-to-use interface and human support when you need it. Fun Build classroom culture with interactive reading exercises and competitions that keep students engaged. What educators are saying... “We started with a class average 
of 275 Lexile Level, and with ReadTheory we met our 
600 Lexile Level goal!” Anne S., Teacher California, USA, United States “Students learn by tracking their data and setting goals. It’s THE BEST comprehension intervention program I’ve used in over 30 years of teaching!” Kara G., Teacher Indiana, United States “We started with a class average 
of 275 Lexile Level, and with ReadTheory we met our 
600 Lexile Level goal!” Anne S., Educator California, United States “I love the way the program automatically detects the student’s level and adjusts based on performance. I also love being able to track their progress and having solid data of the areas where they're struggling in reading.” Anne S., Educator Sweden See the wall of love Try it right now See for yourself how your students will experience ReadTheory! Personalize learning 
for every student. Win prizes and build class culture Motivate students to read with engaging class competitions, badges, and prizes! Teach multiple reading levels Let our A.I driven software take over! We continuously note students’ performance and adapt the level of reading difficulty. Save time with automatic grading Ditch the red pen! Students get instant feedback and we grade everything for you. Set Recurring Activities once and teach stress-free all year. Gain data insights with reports Track individual student and class progress in real-time. Identify where additional practice is needed. Access thousands of exercises With thousands of standards-aligned interactive exercises and worksheets, find the perfect activity for your students. Win prizes and build class culture Motivate students to read with engaging class competitions, badges, and prizes! Teach multiple reading levels Let our A.I driven software take over! We continuously note students’ performance and adapt the level of reading difficulty. Personalize learning 
for every student. 1 Teach multiple reading levels Let our A.I driven software take over! We continuously note students’ performance and adapt the level of reading difficulty. 2 Save time with automatic grading Ditch the red pen! Students get instant feedback and we grade everything for you. Set Recurring Activities once and teach stress-free all year. 3 Gain data insights with reports Track individual student and class progress in real-time. Identify where additional practice is needed. 4 Access thousands of exercises With thousands of standards-aligned interactive exercises and worksheets, find the perfect activity for your students. 5 Win prizes and build class culture Motivate students to read with engaging class competitions, badges, and prizes! Deliver Data-Informed Instruction 1 Track mastery of ELA skills in real time 2 Pinpoint strengths and gaps instantly 3 See detailed data for each student in one click 4 Easily print and share reports across your school Grounded in the science of reading ReadTheory enhances students' background knowledge, vocabulary, and reading comprehension - empowering them to become confident readers. Read more about it Rooted in research, proven in results. +15 Points Schools and districts that use ReadTheory experience a 15-Point advantage on Reading Assessments. 3x Growth Students practicing on ReadTheory outperform their non-practicing peers by 3X. See The Research ReadTheory is free to use. Register for an account now and be up and running in a couple of minutes. Sign up for FREE! Your browser does not support HTML video. Sign Up Now Are you an admin looking to bring ReadTheory to your school or district? Contact Sales Back Bring ReadTheory to your school or district Name * Phone Number * School Email * Email address entered incorrectly Your role * empty Your role Teacher Special Education Teacher Instructional Coach Curriculum Coordinator Director of Curriculum RTI Coordinator (Intervention) Technology Coordinator Director of Technology Assistant Principal Principal Associate Superintendent Superintendent District-Level Administrator Other School / district name * Country * --- Hello, we’re ReadTheory! How it started: One English teacher with a big idea
to personalize learning... How it's going: Millions of teachers around the world improving student outcomes with ReadTheory A little bit about us... Differentiation is at the heart of what we do. You know that every student is different. We designed ReadTheory to celebrate and support those differences. Instead of a “one-size-fits-all” model of education, we go the opposite direction. We believe every student deserves to have a custom-tailored curriculum, designed just for them. Our team Careers Our story… 1 Humble Beginnings Like most good things in education, ReadTheory started in a classroom. The idea for ReadTheory began in a small classroom in central North Carolina. In 2010, ReadTheory’s founder, Tanner Hock, 
was working as a basic skills English instructor at Alamance Community College. While there, he struggled to find materials that were actually appropriate for the levels of his students. So, like every good teacher, he decided to just make the resources himself. Over his time there, he quickly developed two things: a large bank of ready-made resources, and a reputation for sharing everything he made without question. To make sharing as easy as possible, Tanner hosted his resources on his personal website, EnglishForEveryone.org and sent the link around to his colleagues. 2 Accidentally Going Global Soon, the site gained traction all over
the world. As he continued to create new resources, Tanner found that his small site was getting more and more visitors and that his materials were being utilized and shared in countries all around the world. He also noticed that the resources teachers seemed most interested in on his site were his various levels of reading comprehension texts. In 2011, he officially began work on turning those individual exercises into an adaptive program. ReadTheory was born. 3 Starting Over and Over How does the saying go? Rome wasn't built 
in a day? Well that was true for ReadTheory. Over the next five years, ReadTheory grew to include a team of writers and engineers who worked tirelessly to craft and refine high quality passages. The first draft of the site launched in 2015 and promptly crashed. It would take another full year of work and a complete site rebuild before ReadTheory.org was finally ready for the world. While the site was originally focused on providing materials for lower grades, the team quickly realized that learners of all ages were using the site and so refocused their efforts on crafting resources for upper grades as well. 4 ReadTheory Now and in the Future Ron and Josh have been the managing partners of ReadTheory since 2019. They’ve focused on improving the user experience for teachers and students. ReadTheory.org is now in use in thousands of school districts across the world with hundreds of thousands of students logging in each week. Throughout its entire journey from one classroom to millions of students, ReadTheory.org was relied exclusively on word-of-mouth and teacher recommendations. We’ve never spent a cent on advertising; instead, we’ve shared our materials freely and counted on our teachers to do the same. Your browser does not support HTML video. Sign Up Now Back Bring ReadTheory to your school or district Name * Phone Number * Email * Email address entered incorrectly --- The Teachers' Lounge A platform to share helpful and up-to-date information about reaching students at all levels and abilities. ReadTheory’s community of teachers is centered around helping one another. Join us. 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Share the knowledge with your friends & colleagues. Load More Your browser does not support HTML video. Sign Up Now Back Bring ReadTheory to your school or district Name * Phone Number * Email * Email address entered incorrectly --- Reading Comprehension Worksheets & Tests Printable and accessible online. Worksheets for every grade level. Register to ReadTheory and access online K-12 reading comprehension worksheets Look below ESL reading comprehension worksheets Look below SPED reading comprehension worksheets Look below Adult reading comprehension worksheets Look below Browse worksheets Overview Browse reading comprehension worksheets grouped by grade (k-12), along with worksheets that fit ESL students and adults. Free to use All worksheets and tests are free to use, and are both printable and accessible online. Guides Our quizzes and tests include a variety of questions that assess the comprehension. The types of questions you should expect to see in our worksheets include: Questions on central message, lesson or moral Sequencing questions Cause and effect comprehension Identifying chronological order Summarizing (usually with written responses) Identifying the author's point of view Show More Understanding figurative language Identifying intent and conclusions Answering questions with evidence(usually with written responses) Identifying a problem and solutiondescribed in the text Identifying the main topic and key ideas Facts vs. opinions inference K - 12 comprehension worksheets 1 1st grade 2 2nd grade 3 3rd grade 4 4th grade 5 5th grade 6 6th grade 7 7th grade 8 8th grade 9 9th grade 10 10th grade 11 11th grade 12 12th grade 1st grade reading comprehension worksheets To improve reading comprehension, first graders must have a strong foundation of reading skills. This includes being able to recognize the parts of a sentence, having phonological awareness, the ability to apply word analysis skills, and the ability to read with some measure of fluency and accuracy. This is practiced in our first grade quizzes. Save a tree. Try K-12 worksheets online See printable 1st grade exercises ESL, SPED, AdultReading Comprehension Worksheets Essentially, the reading comprehension worksheets for ESL, SPED and adults are taken from our database of k-12 worksheets, so you might find some duplications if you already used the above worksheets. However, these categories have their own unique features as explained for each one below ESL reading comprehension worksheets ESL reading comprehension exercises include worksheets that do not discuss or assume any specific culture origin nor any history topics that may be sensitive to different people around the world Try ESL worksheets online See printable version SPED reading comprehension worksheets SPED reading comprehension exercises include pieces of texts that are easier to digest, more generic, and do not trigger emotionality. It's not science, so we keep updating this section based on users' input. Try SPED worksheets online See printable version Adult reading comprehension worksheets The reading comprehension exercises for adults include worksheets that discuss non-childish topics and are more likely to trigger the interest of an adult. This description is more accurate as you choose a higher grade level. 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