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5th and 6th Grade Nonfiction Passages Worksheets : Page 5

Your little learner can learn about the heroic Tuskegee Airmen as he hones his reading comprehension skills with this history worksheet.

Tuskegee Airmen

Young readers will love digging into this passage&#39;s cool violin facts, and they&#39;ll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Violin Facts

Kids who are just starting to read nonfiction can get their feet wet with this easy Julia Child biography that has a quick comprehension exercise at the end.

Julia Child Biography

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

Malala: Nobel Laureate

Paraphrasing is an important writing skill. With this worksheet, your student will learn some history as he practices paraphrasing.

Paraphrasing: Historical Passage

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Biography

In Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far), third and fourth graders reference a timeline of Sotomayor's life to answer questions about her life.

Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far)

Young readers will love digging into this passage&#39;s cool octopus facts, and they&#39;ll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Octopus Facts

Children learn about Susan B. Anthony, an abolitionist and civil rights advocate best remembered for her contributions to the women&#39;s suffrage movement.

Historical Heroes: Susan B. Anthony

Learn more about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, often simply called &quot;The Wall,&quot; with this interesting printable.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

If some of these lyrics sound familiar, that&#39;s because America the Beautiful is a famous national song! Learn all of the lyrics with this worksheet.

America the Beautiful

Learn more about marches for freedom during the civil rights movement with the worksheet The Selma to Montgomery March.

The Selma to Montgomery March

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: A Freedom Fighter

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

Glossary: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details

Learn all about legendary magician Harry Houdini in this nonfiction reading worksheet.

Harry Houdini Biography

In this worksheet students will be challenged to use information from multiple sources about coral reefs.

Earth's Ecosystem: The Coral Reef

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Side-By-Side Nonfiction Text Features 

With this versatile graphic organizer students have spaces to record information from their sources and synthesize the information in a central space.

Putting it All Together

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Tennis: Nonfiction Text

Early in the American Revolution, the Patriots captured Fort Ticonderoga. Your young historian will learn the importance of this fort in this worksheet.

The Battle of Fort Ticonderoga

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Biography of Wangari Maathai

Thinking Routine: Parts, Purposes, and Complexities

This worksheet on Etta James celebrates the legacy of this African American singer of soul and jazz.

Jazz Greats: Etta James

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Paraphrasing: Rosa Parks

Children learn about three women who emerged as influential photographers during the Great Depression in the United States through the FSA program.

Dorothea Lange and the FSA Photographers

This Louis Pasteur biography goes over his accomplishments, and includes a bacteria-based science activity at the end!

Louis Pasteur

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

Peer Discussions: Ask and Answer Questions

Ever wonder why we wear green on St. Patrick's day, or where the leprechaun came from? Find out with this worksheet on St. Patty's Day history!

St. Patrick's Day Fun Facts

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

Accidental Inventions

The Battle of Camden was a low point for the American forces in the Revolutionary War. Discover the errors made at the battle in this worksheet.

The Battle of Camden

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