5th Grade Reading Comprehension Resources : Page 5

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

Get swept up in this comprehensive worksheet about the awesome power of dust storms.

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

Help students match information about text features together in this review worksheet!

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

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

Annie Oakley was the superstar of the wild west! Learn more about this Ohio sharpshooter with this worksheet on famous women in history.

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

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Your little learner can learn about the heroic Tuskegee Airmen as he hones his reading comprehension skills with this history worksheet.

The Philadelphia Campaign was a year of battles with the Americans at Valley Forge. Students will hone reading skills and learn about the American Revolution.

Children will read an excerpt from Stevenson's book, then respond to a reading comprehension and a creative writing prompt.

Children learn about writer and poet Langston Hughes in this Historical Heroes: Langston Hughes worksheet.

Compare and contrast your traits with the character traits of other people.

Use this resource to help your students familiarize themselves with the concept of literary themes.

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Use this exercise to give your students practice using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

Young readers will enjoy this passage from Jack London's "All Gold Canyon." They'll complete some vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises too.

This activity guides your readers towards the key details and shows kids how to effectively underline while reading.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

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.

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

Every state has lots of court houses and hundreds of judges, but our country has set one court above all the rest -- the Supreme Court.

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

Beginning readers, enjoy this passage from Twain's classic "The Prince and the Pauper" and then complete some vocabulary and comprehension questions.

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

Introduce your students to two myths from different cultures.