5th Grade Reading Resources : Page 4

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.

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

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

In this fiction comprehension exercise, your students will use transition words to help them write about the problem and solution in three short 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.

Learn all about hurricanes in this earth science Q&A.

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

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.

Children read a brief biography of world renowned opera singer Marian Anderson, then answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

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

Students will make inferences, compare texts, and identify figurative language as they interpret reading passages.

Read about six epic April Fools' Day hoaxes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

In Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far), third and fourth graders reference a timeline of Sotomayor's life to answer questions about her life.

In this exercise, EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Read this text about the Great Depression with your students as they build comprehension skills.

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.

This fun resource will strengthen students’ emotional intelligence as they use images to make inferences, a skill which contributes to improved reading comprehension.

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.

As students read R.J. Palacio’s Wonder, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book's characters.

Use this worksheet to help your students analyze and talk about cause-and-effect text structure.

Introduce your students to two myths from different cultures.

Read about the parts of a plot diagram, then fill out the details of a story that you have recently read in the diagram.