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3rd - 5th Grade Common Core Reading Comprehension Worksheets : Page 12

Learners practice comparing a variety of story elements, including characters, setting, and key events, in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Story Elements in Two Fiction Texts

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

Sentence Stems for Making Inferences

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

I Can Make Inferences: Concept Web

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Sea Turtle Citations: Paraphrasing & Direct Quotes

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

Flipchart: I SHAMPOO C

Use this resource to help your students identify and explain the problem in a passage using past tense verbs.

Explain the Problem

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

Graphic Organizer: Author’s Point of View

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 show how to compare characters’ thoughts and actions.

Comparing Characters: Haunted Hotel

Use this nonfiction comprehension worksheet to help second and third graders learn all about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre.

All About Misty Copeland

You may not realize how many beloved books and award-winning movies are historical fiction. Get a taste of historical fiction and try writing some yourself.

What is Historical Fiction?

Use this resource to track what your student knows (K), wants to know (W), and learned (L) about a nonfiction topic.

Asking Questions: KWL Chart

Children learn about three songs that inspired and gave hope to the people who fled slavery via the Underground Railroad, then answer questions about what they have learned.

Underground Railroad: Songs of Freedom

Differentiating between facts and opinions is a key fourth grade skill to master and is helpful in identifying the author’s purpose in a text. Use this activity to give your students extra practice differentiating between these two kinds of sentences.

Fact or Opinion Sentences

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Stop & Jot Sticky Note Sequencing

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the&nbsp;characters, themes, and events from&nbsp;<em>The One and Only Ivan.</em>

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Post-Reading Writing Prompts

Before your child gets started writing research reports, help them learn that not all sources are created equal.

Identifying Reliable Sources

Get to know astronaut Mae Jemison in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!

The Star, Mae Jemison

Ancient mariners mistook the manatee for a mermaid! Your young biologist won't make the same mistake after learning about the manatee with this worksheet.

Manatee Facts

In this historical heroes worksheet, second and third graders read a short passage about Owens' life and legacy, then answer the comprehension questions to help determine their understanding.

Historical Heroes: Jesse Owens

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Summary with Time Order Words

Students read short biographies of pilot Bessie Coleman and astronaut Mae Jemison, each a pioneer in her field. They then practice using a Venn diagram to compare the lives and accomplishments of each woman.

Making Comparisons with a Venn Diagram: Bessie Coleman and Mae Jemison

This graphic organizer can help students analyze a story, scenario, disagreement or controversy from multiple perspectives.

Point of View Graphic Organizer

Use this resource with your students to practice determining who is telling the story. Your students will also practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

Point of View: A Surprising Setback

Introduce children to Italian Christmas traditions with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Christmas in Italy

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

Organize Your Questions

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

Literary Essay Graphic Organizer

Use these discussion cards to get your students talking about the elements that are unique to the fantasy genre.

Fantasy Genre Discussion Cards

Students will answer who, what, when, where, when, why, and how questions after reading a story by Rudyard Kipling.

Reading Comprehension: How the First Letter Was Written

In this worksheet, children read the story of Parks&#39; act of passive resistance, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on why the boycott was successful, as well as why it inspired the support of so many people around the United States.

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