Reading Comprehension Teaching Resources for 5th Grade
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Persuasive Essay Structure Sorting Worksheet
Teach your students about persuasive essay structure with this cut-and-paste sequencing worksheet.
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Super Six Reading Comprehension Strategies - Question Flashcards
A set of question cards to use when working with the Super Six reading comprehension strategies.
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Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) Posters
A poster highlighting the different strategies involved with the QAR comprehension strategy.
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What is Independence Day? - Comprehension Task
A comprehension task that encourages students to apply a range of reading strategies when discovering interesting facts about Independence Day.
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Car Listings Inference Worksheet Pack
Download this inference worksheet pack featuring five imaginary car listings to help your students build critical reading skills and make evidence-based inferences.
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Interpreting Figurative Language - Worksheets
Explore figurative language in poetry with this age-appropriate poem and accompanying vocabulary questions.
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Note-taking Graphic Organizer
A graphic organizer for students to use when taking notes.
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Comprehension Keys Board Game
A fun comprehension strategy board game for students to play during literacy rotations.
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Reading Worksheets - The Business of Bees (5th Grade)
Read and learn about bees, pollination and honey production with a reading comprehension passage and worksheet pack.
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Inspirational Woman Profile: Yuna Kim – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension task to use when learning about Yuna Kim.
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King Tutankhamun - Comprehension Task
A comprehension activity about King Tutankhamun.
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The Poet's Lament - Comprehension
A comprehension activity using a poem.
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Prediction vs Inference Teaching Slides
Use this prediction vs inference teaching presentation to help your students tell the difference between these two essential reading comprehension strategies.
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Before, During, and After Reading Worksheet
A worksheet to use when asking questions before, during, and after reading.
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Before, During and After Reading Fiction Questions - Wheel
5 different versions of wheels to use when asking questions before, during and after reading.
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Before, During and After Reading Fiction Questions - Dice
5 different versions of dice to use when asking questions before, during and after reading.
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Movie Versus Book - Template
A template where students compare and review a movie and a book and construct a 3-D popcorn box.
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Writing Information Texts Teaching Slides
Teach your students the features of information reports using this detailed slideshow targeted at upper elementary school students.
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Real Estate Listing Inference Worksheets
Support comprehension with inference worksheets that guide students in interpreting real estate descriptions and justifying their ideas with clear textual evidence.
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Procedural Recount Text Structure Anchor Chart - With Annotations
A poster about the procedural recount text type, including an annotated example.
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Factual Recount Text Type Poster - With Annotations
A poster about the factual recount text type, including an annotated example.
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Book Review Worksheet
A book review and summary card for comprehension learning.
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Historical Nonfiction Examples – Comparison Task
Explore historical nonfiction examples through a detailed comparison of two accounts of the RMS Titanic disaster, helping students analyze how historical events can be represented in different ways in texts.
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Newspaper Themed - Book Report Template and Poster
A fun newspaper themed poster with 3 book report templates to use when responding to literature.
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Narrative Structure Escape Room - Lost the Plot
Teach narrative structure with this engaging escape room game where students learn about the orientation, complication, climax and resolution by rebuilding a broken story.
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Historical Nonfiction Sorting Task – The Moon Landing
Teach your students about the structure of historical nonfiction texts with this cut-and-paste sequencing worksheet.
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Reading Detectives Worksheets
8 reading detective worksheets to use during book club or reading group sessions.
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QAR Generic Question Cards
A set of 28 generic QAR question cards for students to use as a comprehension task after reading.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Finding Word Meaning in Context
A comprehensive resource pack to help students understand how to work out the meaning of words in context.
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Writing an Opinion Piece Unit Plan - Grade 5 and Grade 6
This English unit addresses the genre of opinion writing; specifically, how to write an effective opinion piece.
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Applying Reading Comprehension Strategies Unit Plan
This reading unit is designed to explicitly teach the reading comprehension strategies of activating prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, monitoring, predicting, inferring, visualizing, and summarizing to elementary students, with a focus on literary texts.
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Narrative Features - Building a Character
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use descriptive language effectively to build a character.