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5th Grade Fiction Passages Resources : Page 2

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

Inferences & Evidence

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

Find the Theme Flowchart

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

Simple Fiction Summary

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

Poetry Guide

This ELA-focused choice board is perfect for supporting independence and encouraging students to practice their reading skills, build reading fluency, and boost reading comprehension.

Get Reading! Choice Board

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech&rsquo;s <em>Walk Two Moons</em> with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Cause and Effect in Walk Two Moons

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

Text Dependent Questions for Independent Reading

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

Diagramming the Plot of a Story

Young readers will refer to a passage from The Secret Garden to answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

The Secret Garden: Reading Comprehension

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

Compare the Fairy Tales

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

Reading Comprehension: Black Beauty

Make reading practice fun with this reading comprehension packet, based on Rudyard Kipling's "How the Camel Got His Hump".

How the Camel Got His Hump

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

Tracking Character Traits

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

Picture This Inference

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

Fiction Summaries:  Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then

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

Panchatantra: The Fish That Were Too Clever

Use this worksheet to help your students understand patriotic songs, like an older national anthem.

Examine the Song “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”

During this activity, students will match parts of a story to one of four elements.

Elements of a Story: Sort It Out!

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

Close Reading Checklist

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

Making Inferences About Feelings

Students will read an excerpt from The Hound of the Baskervilles to discover the great mystery of Baskerville Hall, answering “Stop and Think” fiction comprehension questions throughout the text.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.

Fall Figurative Language Task Cards

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.

Top Hat Graphic Organizer

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.

Crafting a Thesis Statement: Literary Essay Writing

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

Reading Comprehension: The Prince and the Pauper

Use this graphic organizer to support learners&#39; understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

Graphic Organizer: Cause & Effect

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

Reading Response Log

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Book or Character Mind Map

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

Thinking About Themes: Reflection Cards

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

Making Inferences to Interpret Fiction

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