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5th Grade Common Core Reading Comprehension Worksheets : Page 4

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

Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Stories: Extinct Birds

Children learn about Rosie the Riveter, a fictional character who would became a well-known symbol of the World War II war effort, in this social studies worksheet.

Rosie the Riveter

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

Basketball: Nonfiction Text

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1&ndash;38 of <em>The One and Only Ivan</em>.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #1

Your students will need to read between the lines as they make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Earthquake Science

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Answering Questions About Wild, Wild Weather

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

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: A Freedom Fighter

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.

The Aspirations of Sonia Sotomayor 

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Make a Match: Reading Genres

Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.

Detecting the Author's Purpose

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

Women in History: Annie Oakley

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

Making Inferences: Courageous Leaders Part 2

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

Story Map

Your students will have fun identifying the homophones in these hilarious puns!

Puns with Homophones #1

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: We Need Clean Water

Learn more about the swirling, whirling science behind tornadoes with this wild worksheet.

Tornado Science

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Local Government

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

Can You Spot the Main Idea?

Children learn how the internet travels across the ocean through cables to create a giant, global information network in this engaging, hands-on worksheet.

How the Internet Travels Across the Ocean

Students will use an adjective word bank to help them identify statements of fact and opinion.

Fact & Opinion Adjectives

Ever wonder how the whole zombie craze got started? Read about the history of zombies in this awesome reading comprehension packet.

History of Zombies

Dr. McSquare needs help sorting out his lab reports. Can your child read each item, then label it with the correct scientific method step?

Sort Out the Scientific Method #1

Learners will discover what heat waves are, and how they are connected to global warming, in this two-page earth sciences worksheet.

Heat Waves

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

Making Inferences to Interpret Fiction

This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

Should I Recycle This?: Nonfiction Text

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

Cause and Effect: Structure

Children are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.

“I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song

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

Transition Words for Comparing & Contrasting

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5th Grade Common Core Reading Comprehension Worksheets : Page 4

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