5th Grade Text Features Worksheets

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

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

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

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

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.

This comprehensive exercise will introduce your students to twelve elements of poetry and six types of poems.

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

Help students match information about text features together in this review worksheet!

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

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

Children learn about three songs that inspired and gave hope to the people who fled slavery via the Underground Railroad, then answer questions about what they have learned.

Learn more about the imposing tsunami with this worksheet about the science of tsunamis.

Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Students will use content-specific vocabulary in context as they learn about the Revolutionary War.

In this worksheet, kids find the titles of well-loved children’s stories — and match them to the sequence of emojis that describe them.

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

Any kid studying the American Revolution will likely have to memorize this famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow!

Review Civil War key terms and people with this history sheet. Your child will decide which terms describe the Confederacy and which describe the Union.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Revolutionary War Vocabulary.

Learn all about wildfires, a natural phenomenon looked upon with awe and caution.

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

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

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

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.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

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.

Whether you love the great outdoors or are preparing for the zompocalpyse, this round-up of survival skills will help kids be prepared for any disaster!

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

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features Evaluation.