5th Grade Reading Resources : Page 4

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Help students boost their critical thinking and reading comprehension skills with this making inferences graphic organizer.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African-American jazz legend Charlie Parker!

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

Read interesting nonfiction texts about natural disasters and practice identifying causes and effects.

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.

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

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

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

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Do your students know the difference between Veterans Day, Memorial Day, and Labor Day? This reading comprehension worksheet will teach them about the similarities and differences of the holidays. First, they’ll read a passage that provides facts ab

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

Ever wonder how the plasma TV came to be? Read a brief history of the television with this ode to inventors.

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

History buffs, get ready to learn everything you ever wanted to know about all of our U.S. presidents with a fun matching game!

With this easy-to-use flowchart, your students will learn how to find the theme of a fictional story.

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

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.

In this Court Cases worksheet, students read descriptions of five landmark decisions, then match them to their correct name.