5th Grade Reading Resources : Page 10

In this activity, your child will get the chance to adapt a favorite book for the stage or screen.

This Louis Pasteur biography goes over his accomplishments, and includes a bacteria-based science activity at the end!

After reading the last sections of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with these questions!

Kids hunt for different reading genres using this interactive worksheet.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

Martin Luther King Jr. is honored as one of the key leaders in the civil rights movement. Students will read his biography and find text evidence to support or refute some statements before completing a short writing activity.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.

This graphic organizer will encourage your students to put together all the pieces of a strong inference and help them practice reading comprehension skills.

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for parts 5-7 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Use this activity with your students to compare themes between fiction texts.

Those tiny bumps on signs are one of the biggest inventions in modern history. Meet Louis Braille, a man who has helped millions of people worldwide.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool trumpet facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Science fiction is a hugely popular genre of books, movies and TV shows. Read this worksheet to get a taste of some of the originators of sci-fi.

Budding researchers will head Down Under to learn about Melbourne, Australia, in this engaging project.

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

Use this handy genre guide to teach students about 14 different genres!

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool starfish facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help learners analyze two characters from the book with this creative extension activity!

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African American jazz legends! Here’s a page on Thelonious Monk, the first name in the modern jazz movement.

Students will identify the author’s purpose and strengthen their reading comprehension with the questions that follow the text.

In this worksheet, children read about the March on Washington, the ideals that inspired it,  and the people who attended it.

Use these discussion questions to engage students in thoughtful dialogue as they read chapters 9-12 of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising!

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.