5th Grade Reading Resources : Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

In this exercise, students will work through a series of steps to identify the theme of a classic story.

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.

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

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.

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

This worksheet will help teach students about African American musicians, athletes, leaders, and writers who influenced our society and culture.

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

Learn about the Bill of Rights by Illustrating them!

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

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

Your students will need to read between the lines as they make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Learn more about marches for freedom during the civil rights movement with the worksheet The Selma to Montgomery March.

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.

Learn more about the swirling, whirling science behind tornadoes with this wild worksheet.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

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

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

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

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.

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony and important settlers with this social studies worksheet.

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

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.

Students will practice using pronouns to support their understanding of point of view.

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.