5th Grade Reading Worksheets : Page 2

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

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

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

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

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

Your young writer can learn about poetry analysis with this worksheet on rhyme schemes, complete with excerpts by Robert Louis Stevenson.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

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.

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.

Students will practice using pronouns to support their understanding of point of view.

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

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.

America gets its name from Amerigo Vespucci. Kids will learn about this important historical figure with this fun worksheet.

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

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Children put their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution to the test with this simple quiz!

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Using this worksheet template, students plan their work by filling out a plot diagram with their story's exposition, rising action climax, falling action, and climax.

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.

Practice analyzing point of view and perspective with this relatable excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons.

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

Young readers will refer to a passage from The Secret Garden to answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

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

In this exercise, students will work through a series of steps to identify the theme of a classic story.

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

Your child will love learning all about the exploits of the famous European explorer Marco Polo with this attractively illustrated worksheet.

After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.