4th and 5th Grade Reading Comprehension Resources : Page 2

In this worksheet, children learn about the role art plays in the celebration and messaging of Earth Day, which begain in 1970 to heighten awarness of environmental crises around the world.

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author's point.

This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

This worksheet gives your students practice reading and analyzing informational text to explain the author’s claim and supporting reasons.

Here's a worksheet that's great for improving reading comprehension skills. Kids read a simple story about a girl and her kitten then answer the question below.

Practice analyzing poetry with one of Emily Dickinson’s most popular poems!

Young readers practice analyzing characters in a work of fiction with this five-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Children learn about the Moon, then practice finding and writing the main idea, in this literacy worksheet.

Children are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.

Use this worksheet to provide an engaging text for your students as they practice reading and analyzing an author’s claims.

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

Your little reader is sure to enjoy this selection from the children's classic, "The Secret Garden." Students will build their vocabulary and reading skills.

Children to identify the theme of a story from the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of Indian animal fables.

Children will discover more about the culinary history of early Americans as they practice practice identifying the main idea and supporting details.

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Students will read passages and compare the traits of two characters.

This comprehensive exercise will introduce your students to twelve elements of poetry and six types of poems.

Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

Learners will practice using nonfiction text features to support their understanding of a short text about the Winter Olympics.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of jazz music, and the history of African-Americans in pop music.

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Learners will practice distinguishing fact from opinion in this literacy worksheet.

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.