The Best Reading Comprehension Practice Workbooks for Grades 3+

While it can sound dry, reading comprehension skills are the reason to read, helping kids to understand what they read, process it, and make larger connections. These are the skills that can make reading truly magical and transporting. 

Around third grade, kids start to transition from learning to read, to reading to learn. This exciting transition makes reading comprehensions skills more crucial than ever. What’s more, having a solid grasp of reading comprehension can also help grow a child’s love of reading. (After all, reading is far more enjoyable when you fully understand what you're reading!)

Plus, for readers 6-10, check out these 6 tips you can implement today to build reading comprehension skills.

According to the Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report, overall, when it comes to reading enjoyment and importance, at least half of all kids ages 6–17 say they like a lot or love reading for fun (56 percent) and think it's extremely important to read for fun (50 percent). These are great sentiments to preserve in growing readers. 

With the right resources, boosting your reader's reading comprehension skills is easy and fun. These fantastic workbooks give growing learners in 3rd grade and above practice with main ideas and details, making inferences, following directions, drawing conclusions, summarizing, differentiating between fact and opinion, and far more. They are great supplements to what your kids are learning in class, and will give them the reading comprehension practice they need to build confidence and a true love of reading. 

In addition, families can also consider supporting readers by building their writing skills. Encourage them to practice the work in their own writing that mirrors what they are being asked to understand in their reading.  

To continue building skills, find out why this line of workbooks under $7 is so popular. 

Of course, these skills will not only benefit them in language arts classes, but also in STEM subjects like math or science. Because reading comprehension is a main pillar of school success in a number of ways, working on improving these skills will always pay off.

Shop the latest, expert-approved reading comprehension skill builders below. You can find all books and activities at The Scholastic Store.