5th Grade Reading Worksheets : Page 5

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

After completing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help students connect to the novel with this acts of kindness activity.

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.

Improve your child's reading skills and introduce her the classic tale of Peter Rabbit with this comprehension page, all about finding the main idea.

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

In this biography worksheet, children read a passage about Booker T. Washington's life, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on what they have learned.

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

Cleopatra ruled Egypt and conquered the hearts of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Read a mini-biography on this remarkable woman in history.

Use this resource to help your students familiarize themselves with the concept of literary themes.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

Get swept up in this comprehensive worksheet about the awesome power of dust storms.

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.

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

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

Young readers will enjoy this passage from Jack London's "All Gold Canyon." They'll complete some vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises too.

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

Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

This worksheet on Etta James celebrates the legacy of this African American singer of soul and jazz.

The Philadelphia Campaign was a year of battles with the Americans at Valley Forge. Students will hone reading skills and learn about the American Revolution.

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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

Get out those books, open the laptop, and research what Ramadan is all about. Your child can learn valuable research skills while learning about this holiday.

In this worksheet, children read Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Snowdrop, reimagined here as a drama.

What if you met a snake who could make you rich? Enjoy one of the classic Panchatantra stories, animal fables from India that have a moral lesson.

Students will answer questions about a nonfiction text and find quotes to support their answers.