Story Trail: Reading Comprehension, Grades 2 to 3
12 weeks of reading for meaning: questions, story parts, characters, main ideas, fables and more.
Free, start to finish. No card. Every week opens without signing in.
- Grade
- Grades 2 to 3
- Length
- 12 weeks
- Pace
- 6 short lessons a week, about 15 minutes each
- Price
- Free, every week
About this course
Story Trail helps children who can read the words understand what they read. Each week Chris the Coyote and Ferris the Fox teach one reading strategy, from asking who, what and why to finding the main idea, following steps, spotting cause and effect, using text features and finding a fable's lesson. Every day has a new short story or guide to read and questions that send the reader back to the text. Every line is read aloud and every week is free.
Kids will
- Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions
- Retell a story in order and describe its beginning, middle and end
- Describe how characters feel and respond to events
- Find the main topic and key details in nonfiction
- Spot sequence, problem and solution, and cause and effect
- Use text features, context clues and a fable's lesson to understand what you read
The 12 weeks
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Week 1
Question Detectives
Who, what, where, when, why and how
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Week 2
Story Parts
Beginning, middle and end
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Week 3
Story Characters
Feelings, traits and how characters respond
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Week 4
Main Topic Meadow
Main topic and key details
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Week 5
Step by Step
How-to texts and steps in order
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Week 6
Puzzle Problems
Problem and solution
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Week 7
Why Did It Happen?
Cause and effect with because and so
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Week 8
Word Detectives
Context clues and sayings
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Week 9
Find It Fast
Text features in fact texts
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Week 10
Why and Who
Author's purpose and point of view
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Week 11
Fable Fireside
Fables, morals and the details that show them
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Week 12
Same and Different
Compare two texts, rhyme and rhythm, and a big review
Try Week 1 today.
Open the course, pick Day 1 and go. Make a free parent account when you want progress saved for each kid.