5th Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets

Students will learn fun facts about animals while making inferences about nonfiction text.

Students will make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Hone key reading comprehension strategies with this engaging five-page worksheet!

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about soul music and the history of African-Americans in pop music, all in this Hip-Hop Music worksheet!

In this worksheet, children discover what plastic is, how it is manufactured, as well as its history and about attempts to reduce plastic waste.

The history of Valentine's Day is full of theories about how the holiday began. Read about the history of Valentine's Day with this exercise and activity.

In this worksheet, students will read about Anne Frank, then complete a chart identifying cause and effect.

Dive into the world of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" with this reading comprehension page.

Children are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.

In this engaging reading comprehension worrksheet, learners read an original two-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions.

What’s all the buzz about beekeeping? Give students this four-page nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet to find out!

Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored as one of the most important leaders in the civil rights movement. Give your fourth and fifth graders a chance to deepen their understanding of his life and legacy through this reader’s theater activity.

Develop reading comprehension with this video game passage. Ask your students to read the excerpt, then answer questions about the main ideas and details.

Students will practice using pronouns to help them understand point of view.

Learn more about the swirling, whirling science behind tornadoes with this wild worksheet.

Learn all about The Mayflower, the famous ship the Pilgrims made their great journey in.

Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify the author’s purpose.

Support students’ inference skills with this targeted two-page reading worksheet. 

Practice analyzing poetry with one of Emily Dickinson’s most popular poems!

Kids learn about the Earth's solid and atmospheric layers, then label the diagram with the correct terms in this fifth grade Earth science worksheet.

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

Your little reader is sure to enjoy this selection from the children's classic, "The Secret Garden." She'll build her vocabulary and reading skills.

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

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

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

Learners will practice distinguishing fact from opinion in this literacy worksheet.

Students will read passages and compare the traits of two characters.

Help students appreciate the information they can get from text features!

Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.