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5th and 6th Grade Fiction Passages Resources : Page 2

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

Compare the Fairy Tales

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

Detecting the Author's Purpose

Students will practice using pronouns to support their understanding of point of view.

Pronouns & Point of View

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Simple Fiction Summary

Your young writer can learn about poetry analysis with this worksheet on rhyme schemes, complete with excerpts by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Rhyme Schemes

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

Close Reading Annotations

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

Fiction Summaries:  Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then

This comprehensive exercise will introduce your students to twelve elements of poetry and six types of poems.

Poetry Guide

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.

Fall Figurative Language Task Cards

With this easy-to-use flowchart, your students will learn how to find the theme of a fictional story.

Find the Theme Flowchart

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Make a Match: Reading Genres

Compare and contrast your traits with the character traits of other people.

Comparing My Character Traits

This ELA-focused choice board is perfect for supporting independence and encouraging students to practice their reading skills, build reading fluency, and boost reading comprehension.

Get Reading! Choice Board

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech&rsquo;s <em>Walk Two Moons</em> with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Cause and Effect in Walk Two Moons

This fun resource will strengthen students’ emotional intelligence as they use images to make inferences, a skill which contributes to improved reading comprehension.

Picture This Inference

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

Text Dependent Questions for Independent Reading

Improve your child&#39;s reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children&#39;s story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Reading Comprehension: Stuffed Elephant

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun language and vocabulary worksheet.

Examples of Hyperbole! Part 2

In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.

Reading Comprehension: Peter Pan

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Crafting a Thesis Statement: Literary Essay Writing

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

Tracking Character Traits

Young readers will refer to a passage from The Secret Garden to answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

The Secret Garden: Reading Comprehension

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

Can You Spot the Main Idea?

Use this graphic organizer to support learners&#39; understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

Graphic Organizer: Cause & Effect

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

Inferences & Evidence

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

Reading Comprehension: Black Beauty

Children to identify the theme of a story from the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of Indian animal fables.

Panchatantra: The Fish That Were Too Clever

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

Close Reading Checklist

Analyze the impact an author&rsquo;s words can have on the meaning and tone of a text with this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott&rsquo;s classic novel <em>Little Women</em>.

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Word Choice in Little Women

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