5th Grade Reading Resources : Page 7

The Underground Railroad aided thousands of enslaved Americans on the road to freedom. Students will learn about the leaders of this movement.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Cleopatra ruled Egypt and conquered the hearts of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Read a mini-biography on this remarkable woman in history.

Young historians will love learning facts about the famous Viking explorer Leif Ericson while practicing their reading comprehension and writing skills.

Your child will love learning all about the exploits of the famous European explorer Marco Polo with this attractively illustrated worksheet.

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Your young student will step back in time with this worksheet on the Ming Dynasty. He'll build comprehension skills as he learns some ancient history.

Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.

Children learn facts about dolphin's evolution, behavior, and physical traits in this reading comprehension worksheet.

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

"We can fly! We can fly" Your child may never fly, but they'll have a soaring good time with this Peter Pan story and worksheet.

What if you met a snake who could make you rich? Enjoy one of the classic Panchatantra stories, animal fables from India that have a moral lesson.

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 worksheet, kids find the titles of well-loved children’s stories — and match them to the sequence of emojis that describe them.

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

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Do you believe in the Bermuda Triangle? Compare witness accounts of these weird waters and draw your own conclusions in this reading worksheet.

Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

Unwrap the history behind a spooky Halloween favorite: mummies! With this reading worksheet, your child will learn all about mummies.

Engage in some sneaky warfare with the tale of the Trojan Horse, one of the most legendary Greek myths ever told.

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.