I have never met a student who didn’t love bookmarks. You bust out a set of printable bookmarks and you’re going to see some excitement in your classroom! I have never met a student who didn’t love bookmarks. You bust out a set of printable bookmarks and you’re going to see some excitement in your classroom! The beauty of bookmarks is that they can be for anything. I love passing them out for Christmas presents, or as Valentine’s Day Cards. But what I find the most effective is if you combine skills for reading comprehension and a bookmarks free printable. When a bookmark has skills of reading comprehension on it, you’re going to see that it also doubles as a traveling anchor chart!
Grab your FREE bookmarks here!
Use Bookmarks Instead Of Reading Comprehension For First Grade Worksheets
Maybe you need quick reading comprehension for practice. Using a reading comprehension worksheet for first grade would work, but it might be longer than you need. If you just need a quick activity for reading comprehension, try using bookmarks!
Here’s how you can use your printable bookmarks for reading comprehension.
- Download the free printable bookmarks from the link above.
- Print them as you need – I recommend using astrobrights paper. Or, print them on white paper and students can color their bookmarks.
- In place of an anchor chart, introduce the skills of reading comprehension with the bookmark.
- Send the bookmarks home on library day. Students use bookmarks as at-home reading comprehension for practice.
- Add the bookmarks to your literacy stations as help for reading comprehension.

Which Reading Strategies Are Included?
These are the 14 skills in reading comprehension included in the bookmarks free printable set:
- Main Idea
- Predicting
- Summarizing
- Story Elements
- Inferencing
- Drawing Conclusions
- Making Connections
- Author’s Purpose
- Sequencing
- Compare and Contrast
- Cause and Effect
- Asking Questions
- Visualizing
- Character Traits
It’s Like A Free Worksheet On Reading Comprehension!
Don’t forget, these bookmarks are FREE! I made these bookmarks to make reading comprehension for 1st grade more fun and inviting, and I’m sharing them with you today!

