5th Grade Reading Resources : Page 3

Your young writer can learn about poetry analysis with this worksheet on rhyme schemes, complete with excerpts by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Read about the history of the Winchester Mystery House, and then answer some comprehension questions.

Learn about the Bill of Rights by Illustrating them!

In this biography worksheet, children read a passage about Booker T. Washington's life, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on what they have learned.

This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point.

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

Get out those books, open the laptop, and research what Ramadan is all about. Your child can learn valuable research skills while learning about this holiday.

Students read short biographies of pilot Bessie Coleman and astronaut Mae Jemison, each a pioneer in her field. They then practice using a Venn diagram to compare the lives and accomplishments of each woman.

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

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

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

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.

Using this worksheet template, students plan their work by filling out a plot diagram with their story's exposition, rising action climax, falling action, and climax.

In this worksheet, students learn how the Sit-In movement began, and the impact it had on both the region and the country.

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

Support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

How well do you know your country's past presidents? Here is a challenging series of match-up games, featuring U.S. presidents!

Select a topic that interests you, then learn about it from a variety of sources, such as books, websites, and articles.

Children put their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution to the test with this simple quiz!

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

This worksheet on Etta James celebrates the legacy of this African American singer of soul and jazz.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.