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5th Grade Common Core Fiction Passages Worksheets : Page 4

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

Accidental Inventions

The Tain, formally known as Tain Bo Cuailnge, is an epic from early Irish literature. Read The Tain for kids in this worksheet, and learn about its characters.

The Tain

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

The Day I Saved the World!

Students will identify the author’s purpose and strengthen their reading comprehension with the questions that follow the text.

The Story of the Amulet

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

Author's Purpose: Sort It Out!

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

Interpreting a Great Poem

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.

Analyzing Elements of Fiction: Scripts and Plays

Use this organizer to dig deep when comparing and contrasting texts within a genre.

Compare and Contrast Texts: Same Sub-Genre

Return to school in the fall with a list of your best summer reads by recording them here.

Summer Reading Log

Use this graphic organizer to analyze a common topic and theme between fiction texts.

Topic & Theme Between Fiction Texts

Complete the story by writing the main events.

Understanding Plot by Creating Your Own Story

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

Literature Response Reflection Cards

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

The Main Event

Use these discussion cards to get your students talking about the elements that are unique to the fantasy genre.

Fantasy Genre Discussion Cards

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African American jazz legends! Here’s a page on Thelonious Monk, the first name in the modern jazz movement.

Jazz Greats - Thelonious Monk

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Two Truths and One Lie: Mae Jemison

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

Illustrating Cause and Effects Reading Log

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

Book Casting Call

Students will note features of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Common Topics Between Fiction Texts

A cinquain poem is a five line poem that does not rhyme. Your students can read an example of a cinquain poem, then try writing a few of their own.

Traditional Cinquain

Young readers will pick a book and join a band of pirates as they guide them to find hidden treasure through the secrets of inference.

X Marks the Inference

Have your child read these Peter Pan passages and decide what she knows about the Peter Pan character.

Who Is Peter Pan?

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine story dialogue with characters from another story.

Re-imagining Dialogue with Guest Characters

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

Making Connections Between Fiction and Nonfiction

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

Sub-Genre Specific Traits Across Texts

Students will strengthen their reading comprehension with this challenging text and the accompanying questions.

The Butterfly's Ball

In this worksheet, kids will learn about the author's perspective, an essential component of nonfiction comprehension.

Author Inferences and Quotes as Proof

Deepen your students’ literary comprehension by comparing texts within a genre.

Comparing Texts: Separate Traits of a Sub-Genre

This worksheet will enable your readers to examine several books in a series and compare and contrast the main features across the texts.

Using a Chart to Compare Books in a Series

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

Head to Head Fiction: Protagonists and Challenges

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