Search 5th Grade RI.5.2 Reading Educational Resources

Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.

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

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

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

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

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

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

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

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.

America gets its name from Amerigo Vespucci. Kids will learn about this important historical figure with this fun worksheet.

Children learn about Madam C.J. Walker, the first woman to become a self-made millionaire in the United States, in this Finding the Main Idea worksheet.

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

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

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

In this biography worksheet, children are introduced to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who in 1993 became the second female Justice of the Supreme Court in the United States.

Children read a brief biography of world renowned opera singer Marian Anderson, then answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Your students will be amazed to learn about different types of fungus in this nonfiction reading exercise!

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine narratives with characters from their favorite stories.