6 free reading resources for Year 5, organised by topic with answer sheets, study guides and topic tests.
Reading comprehension is about more than finding the answer in the text. Students need to read literally (what does it say?), inferentially (what does it mean?) and evaluatively (what do I think, and why?). Each passage here comes with questions at all three levels and model answers for the open ones.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
Students learn that a prefix is added to the start of a word to change its meaning (un-, re-, pre-, mis-, sub-, dis-) and a suffix is…
Clear explanations, examples and tips.
Explains the three kinds of comprehension questions (literal, inferential and evaluative) and the strategies good readers use before,…
A passage with questions.
A news-style article about a primary school environment club cleaning up a local creek. Students locate facts and quotes, infer what…
An original narrative poem about a long-awaited storm breaking over a dry farm. Students read for the story the poem tells, then look…
An information report on Australia's longest river: its journey from the Alps to the sea, its importance to Aboriginal peoples, paddle…
A biography of pioneering Australian aviator Nancy Bird Walton, from paper planes to flying a nurse across outback New South Wales.…
Writing prompts include a model opening and clear success criteria rather than a single 'correct' answer, so parents and teachers can give useful feedback.
Yes. All passages are written by Success Tutoring and checked for age-appropriate vocabulary and sentence length.
Resources tagged NAPLAN practise the same text types and skills NAPLAN assesses. They are NAPLAN-style and not official test papers.