RL.5 Worksheets
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5
:"Literature"
These worksheets can help students practice this Common Core State Standards skill.
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Graphic Organizer: Cause & Effect
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Graphic Organizer: Cause & Effect
Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.
3rd Grade
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Book Casting Call
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Book Casting Call
Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.
5th Grade
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Language Frames: Compare & Contrast
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Language Frames: Compare & Contrast
Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.
4th Grade
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Context Clues Table
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Context Clues Table
Context clues help readers discern the meaning of new vocabulary terms in their reading. Use this worksheet to help your students organize unfamiliar words and transfer their context clues and definitions to a table.
4th Grade
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Practice with Problem & Solution
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Practice with Problem & Solution
In this fiction comprehension exercise, your students will use transition words to help them write about the problem and solution in three short stories.
5th Grade
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Transition Words in Fiction
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Transition Words in Fiction
Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.
5th Grade
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Writing Metaphors with Linking Verbs
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Writing Metaphors with Linking Verbs
In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.
5th Grade
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How the Camel Got His Hump
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How the Camel Got His Hump
Make reading practice fun with this reading comprehension packet, based on Rudyard Kipling's "How the Camel Got His Hump".
4th Grade
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Practicing Point of View
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Practicing Point of View
Students will practice using pronouns to help them understand point of view.
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Comparing My Character Traits
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Comparing My Character Traits
Compare and contrast your traits with the character traits of other people.
5th Grade
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Simple Fiction Summary
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Simple Fiction Summary
Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.
4th Grade
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Language Frames: Character Changes
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Language Frames: Character Changes
Use this simple template to identify a character's feelings, challenges, and resolution throughout a text.
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Panchatantra: The Fish That Were Too Clever
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Panchatantra: The Fish That Were Too Clever
Children to identify the theme of a story from the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of Indian animal fables.
5th Grade
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Reading Comprehension: Stuffed Elephant
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Reading Comprehension: Stuffed Elephant
Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.
5th Grade
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Reading Fiction: Main Idea and Details
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Reading Fiction: Main Idea and Details
EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.
5th Grade
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Reading Comprehension: Black Beauty
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Reading Comprehension: Black Beauty
Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.
5th Grade
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Reading Comprehension: The Prince and the Pauper
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Reading Comprehension: The Prince and the Pauper
Beginning readers, enjoy this passage from Twain's classic "The Prince and the Pauper" and then complete some vocabulary and comprehension questions.
5th Grade
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Compare the Fairy Tales
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Compare the Fairy Tales
Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?
4th Grade
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Book Poster
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Book Poster
Explore the major themes of your reading assignment by making a book poster. Don't forget the tagline!
5th Grade
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Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre
Read this passage from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and get both reading and writing practice in one fell swoop.
5th Grade
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Children will read an excerpt from Stevenson's book, then respond to a reading comprehension and a creative writing prompt.
5th Grade
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Dracula
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Dracula
Children revisit Bram Stoker's classic Dracula novel from the perspective of two other characters in this creative writing exercise.
5th Grade
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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.
5th Grade
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Norse Myths: Sif's Golden Hair
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Norse Myths: Sif's Golden Hair
Read this famous Norse myth starring Sif and Loki and find out how mythology shapes our understanding of the world around us.
4th Grade
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Reading: The Wind in the Willows
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Reading: The Wind in the Willows
Embark on an adventure through the woods with the Mole, in this excerpt from Kenneth Grahame's charming book, The Wind in the Willows.
5th Grade
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A Nation’s Strength
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A Nation’s Strength
In this reading and writing worksheet about the poem “A Nation’s Strength” by William Ralph Emerson, students will use their understanding of figurative language to identify and define metaphors and difficult vocabulary.
5th Grade
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Text Dependent Questions for Independent Reading
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Text Dependent Questions for Independent Reading
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
3rd Grade
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A Retelling of Han Christian Andersen's The Snowdrop
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A Retelling of Han Christian Andersen's The Snowdrop
In this worksheet, children read Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Snowdrop, reimagined here as a drama.
5th Grade
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Examine the Song “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”
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Examine the Song “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”
Use this worksheet to help your students understand patriotic songs, like an older national anthem.
4th Grade
Social studies
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Flipchart: I SHAMPOO C
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Flipchart: I SHAMPOO C
Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.
5th Grade
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