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5th Grade Nonfiction Common Core Comprehension Questions Worksheets

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

Making Inferences About Awesome Animals

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

Extended Informational Reading Comprehension: The Buzz About Beekeeping

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!

History of Hip Hop Music

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

Identify the Author's Purpose

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

Video Games: Not Just for Fun

Children learn how the internet travels across the ocean through cables to create a giant, global information network in this engaging, hands-on worksheet.

How the Internet Travels Across the Ocean

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

Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.

The Aspirations of Sonia Sotomayor 

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.

Reading Comprehension: The Secret Garden

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

The Mayflower

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Answering Questions About Wild, Wild Weather

Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.

Detecting the Author's Purpose

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

Earthquakes: Text Features

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Local Government

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

Close Reading Annotations

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Writing a Nonfiction Summary: Sharks

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony and important settlers with this social studies worksheet.

Colonial America: Jamestown

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

Identifying Fact and Opinion

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

Quotes as Evidence #1

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

Winchester Mystery House

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

History of Jazz

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

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

Transition Words for Comparing & Contrasting

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

Paraphrase the Declaration of Independence

Use this handy genre guide to teach students about 14 different genres!

Genre Guide & Reading Challenge

In this nonfiction biography, learn how Nikola Tesla invented key technologies that are still used today.

Nikola Tesla: Inventor and Engineer

Students will use an adjective word bank to help them identify statements of fact and opinion.

Fact & Opinion Adjectives

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