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

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

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

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

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

Transition Words for Comparing & Contrasting

Read and analyze a classic example of historical fiction with this adapted excerpt from Mark Twain&rsquo;s The Prince and the Pauper!

Extended Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From The Prince and the Pauper

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

Learn about Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, a Chinese-American suffragist, activist, and minister of the early 20th century with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Informational Reading Comprehension: Biography of Mabel Ping-Hua Lee

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

Find the Theme Flowchart

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

Comparing My Character Traits

Students practice informational reading comprehension skills while learning all about the national artistic tradition of azulejo tiles!

Informational Reading Comprehension: Azulejos: A Tradition of Portugal

Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Stories: Extinct Birds

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions after students read chapters 1&ndash;6 of Rick Riordan&rsquo;s The Lightning Thief.&nbsp;

Novel Study: The Lightning Thief: Discussion Guide #1 

Introduce students to Japanese American civil rights hero Fred Korematsu with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

Informational Reading Comprehension: Biography of Fred Korematsu

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

Extended Informational Reading Comprehension: Extraordinary Elements

Introduce learners to the American advocate Dorothea Dix with this three-page informational reading comprehension worksheet.

Informational Reading Comprehension: Biography of Dorothea Dix

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

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

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1&ndash;5 of Lois Lowry&rsquo;s The Giver.&nbsp;

Novel Study: The Giver: Discussion Guide #1

Introduce readers to the poem &ldquo;When I Was One-and-Twenty&rdquo; by English poet A. E. Housman with this sixth-grade worksheet!&nbsp;

Analyzing Poetry: “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by A.E. Housman

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

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

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

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

Novel Discussion Guide for Teachers

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

Tracking Character Traits

This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point of view.

Basketball: Nonfiction Text

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

The Secret Garden: Reading Comprehension

Give students a chance to engage with a classic science fiction story while practicing crucial reading comprehension skills!

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