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5th Grade Nonfiction Passages Worksheets : Page 4

This activity guides your readers towards the key details and shows kids how to effectively underline while reading.

Tracking Important Details: A Look into Marie Curie's Life

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

The History of African American Spirituals

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

Genre Guide & Reading Challenge

Children learn about writer and poet Langston Hughes in this Historical Heroes: Langston Hughes worksheet.

Langston Hughes: Historical Heroes

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

Who is Katherine Johnson?

How well do you know your country's past presidents? Here is a challenging series of match-up games, featuring U.S. presidents!

U.S. Presidents: Matching Game I

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.

History of Valentine's Day

Students will use sentence frames to cite quotes from nonfiction texts.

Cite an Author with Introductory Phrases

In this Court Cases worksheet, students read descriptions of five landmark decisions, then match them to their correct name.

Civil Rights Court Cases

Young readers will love digging into this passage&#39;s cool sea turtle facts, and they&#39;ll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Sea Turtle Facts

Young readers will love digging into this passage&#39;s cool shrimp facts, and they&#39;ll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Shrimp Facts

Meet one of the most well-known Native American women in our country&#39;s history--Sacagawea!

Sacagawea Trading Card

Your little learner can learn about the heroic Tuskegee Airmen as he hones his reading comprehension skills with this history worksheet.

Tuskegee Airmen

Young readers will love digging into this passage&#39;s cool violin facts, and they&#39;ll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Violin Facts

Kids who are just starting to read nonfiction can get their feet wet with this easy Julia Child biography that has a quick comprehension exercise at the end.

Julia Child Biography

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

Malala: Nobel Laureate

Paraphrasing is an important writing skill. With this worksheet, your student will learn some history as he practices paraphrasing.

Paraphrasing: Historical Passage

In this biography worksheet, children&nbsp;are introduced to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who in 1993 became the second female Justice of the Supreme Court in the United States.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Biography

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.

Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far)

Young readers will love digging into this passage&#39;s cool octopus facts, and they&#39;ll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Octopus Facts

Children learn about Susan B. Anthony, an abolitionist and civil rights advocate best remembered for her contributions to the women&#39;s suffrage movement.

Historical Heroes: Susan B. Anthony

Learn more about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, often simply called &quot;The Wall,&quot; with this interesting printable.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

If some of these lyrics sound familiar, that&#39;s because America the Beautiful is a famous national song! Learn all of the lyrics with this worksheet.

America the Beautiful

Learn more about marches for freedom during the civil rights movement with the worksheet The Selma to Montgomery March.

The Selma to Montgomery March

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: A Freedom Fighter

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

Glossary: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details

Learn all about legendary magician Harry Houdini in this nonfiction reading worksheet.

Harry Houdini Biography

In this worksheet students will be challenged to use information from multiple sources about coral reefs.

Earth's Ecosystem: The Coral Reef

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.

Side-By-Side Nonfiction Text Features 

With this versatile graphic organizer students have spaces to record information from their sources and synthesize the information in a central space.

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