Search Printable 5th Grade Informational Text Reading Worksheets

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

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

Why do zombies love brains? Find out with this collection of fun facts and a colorful diagram of the brain.

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

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

Is your child baffled by the scientific method? Dr. McSquare is here to help! Learn the steps by helping the doctor organize his lab reports.

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Learners will discover what heat waves are, and how they are connected to global warming, in this two-page earth sciences worksheet.

Develop reading comprehension with this video game passage. Ask your students to read the excerpt, then answer questions about the main ideas and details.

Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify the author’s purpose.

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

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.

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

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

Do your students know the difference between Veterans Day, Memorial Day, and Labor Day? This reading comprehension worksheet will teach them about the similarities and differences of the holidays. First, they’ll read a passage that provides facts about ea

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.

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

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

Ever wonder how the whole zombie craze got started? Read about the history of zombies in this awesome reading comprehension packet.

Help students boost their critical thinking and reading comprehension skills with this making inferences graphic organizer.

Students will learn fun facts about animals while making inferences about nonfiction text.

Kids learn about the Earth's solid and atmospheric layers, then label the diagram with the correct terms in this fifth grade Earth science worksheet.

Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.