5th and 6th Grade Common Core Reading Comprehension Resources

Students will learn fun facts about animals while making inferences about nonfiction text.

Explore the many ways people around the world embrace winter in this reading comprehension worksheet!

In Reading Comprehension: The Adventure Begins, learners will read an engaging one-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions about the text. 

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about soul music and the history of African-Americans in pop music, all in this Hip-Hop Music worksheet!

Hone key reading comprehension strategies with this engaging five-page worksheet!

Students will make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Practice analyzing figurative language in context with this excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s classic fantasy novel, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe!

Read an informational passage about George Washington Carver to learn about his life and achievements!

In this worksheet, students will read about Anne Frank, then complete a chart identifying cause and effect.

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

In this engaging reading comprehension worrksheet, learners read an original two-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions.

Students will practice using pronouns to help them understand point of view.

In this worksheet, children read Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Snowdrop, reimagined here as a drama.

Explore a fascinating period of U.S. history with this informational reading worksheet about the Harlem Renaissance.

This graphic organizer helps your students examine descriptive adjectives and nouns.

Help students hone reading comprehension skills and techniques with this classic Robert Frost poem.

Explore West Africa's historical gold salt trade with this fascinating reading passage and accompanying set of comprehension questions!

Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify the author’s purpose.

Children learn how the internet travels across the ocean through cables to create a giant, global information network in this engaging, hands-on worksheet.

Develop reading comprehension with this video game passage. Ask your students to read the excerpt, then answer questions about the main ideas and details.

What’s all the buzz about beekeeping? Give students this four-page nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet to find out!

Support students’ inference skills with this targeted two-page reading worksheet. 

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by reading about the holiday’s history and imagery!

Introduce students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

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.

Introduce students to one of the leading figures of the United States civil rights movement with this reading comprehension worksheet all about Thurgood Marshall!

In this seventh-grade ELA worksheet, students read a fascinating informational text about the history of kites and answer comprehension questions covering a variety of reading skills. 

Discover why an odd-looking tree is known as Africa’s "tree of life" with this reading comprehension worksheet.

How is a train like a bird? Find out in this sixth-grade informational reading comprehension worksheet all about biomimicry!