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5th - 8th Grade Common Core Reading Comprehension Worksheets : Page 4

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

Quotes as Evidence #1

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

Pronouns & Point of View

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

Winchester Mystery House

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

Simple Fiction Summary

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

History of Jazz

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

Reading for Fluency: The Jungle Book

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

Comparing My Character Traits

Before reading Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan&rsquo;s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story&#39;s setting!

Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Pre-Reading Activity

Students read all about seaweed and answer standards-based comprehension questions in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Informational Reading Comprehension: Sustaining the World With Seaweed

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

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1&ndash;38 of The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #1

Learn about what makes certain elements cooler than others in this chemistry-based informational reading passage!&nbsp;

Extended Informational Reading Comprehension: Extraordinary Elements

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

Literary Response Prompt: Theme

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

I Can Write About Main Idea & Details!

Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing&nbsp;two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades!&nbsp;

Compare and Contrast in Poetry: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "Still will I harvest beauty where it grows"

Get in the spooky spirit of Halloween with our vocab-packed copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

The Raven

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

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Make a Match: Reading Genres

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

Close Reading Checklist

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.

Movies and Main Ideas

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Two Truths and One Lie: Sonia Sotomayor

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.

Finding the Main Idea: Madam C.J. Walker

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

The Secret Garden: Reading Comprehension

Introduce middle school readers to one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance with Langston Hughes&rsquo;s poem &ldquo;Mother to Son.&rdquo;

Analyzing Poetry: "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes

Use this discussion guide to support students&rsquo; comprehension and analysis of chapters 1&ndash;4 of S.E. Hinton&rsquo;s novel The Outsiders.

Novel Study: The Outsiders: Discussion Guide #1

Use this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott&rsquo;s classic novel Little Women to help your middle schooler analyze plot development!

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Plot Development in Little Women

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

Earthquake Science

Give your students experience with reading and analyzing primary sources with this powerful excerpt from the memoir of Frederick Douglass.

Informational Reading Comprehension: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Ever wonder how the plasma TV came to be? Read a brief history of the television with this ode to inventors.

History of Television

Learn all about hurricanes in this earth science Q&A.

Hurricane Science

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