5th Grade Nonfiction Comprehension Questions Resources

In this worksheet, children discover what plastic is, how it is manufactured, as well as its history and about attempts to reduce plastic waste.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about soul music and the history of African-Americans in pop music, all in this Hip-Hop Music worksheet!

What’s all the buzz about beekeeping? Give students this four-page nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet to find out!

Develop reading comprehension with this video game passage. Ask your students to read the excerpt, then answer questions about the main ideas and details.

Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored as one of the most important leaders in the civil rights movement. Give your fourth and fifth graders a chance to deepen their understanding of his life and legacy through this reader’s theater activity.

Learn all about The Mayflower, the famous ship the Pilgrims made their great journey in.

Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify the author’s purpose.

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Learners will practice distinguishing fact from opinion in this literacy worksheet.

The history of Valentine's Day is full of theories about how the holiday began. Read about the history of Valentine's Day with this exercise and activity.

Your little reader is sure to enjoy this selection from the children's classic, "The Secret Garden." She'll build her vocabulary and reading skills.

Help students appreciate the information they can get from text features!

Read about the history of the Winchester Mystery House, and then answer some comprehension questions.

Introduce students to the concept of using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

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

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

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

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.

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

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

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

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of jazz music, and the history of African-Americans in pop music.

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

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