3 free reading comprehension resources for Year 5: 3 worksheets. Answers included.
Reading passages with questions that build literal, inferential and evaluative understanding. In Year 5, In Year 5 students multiply larger numbers, divide with remainders, explore equivalent fractions, decimals to hundredths, angles and area.
Students will practise: identifying the main arguments in a persuasive letter; recognising how writers answer opposing views; inferring a writer's opinion from word choice; evaluating which argument is strongest; sequencing events in a narrative; inferring characters' feelings from actions and dialogue; noticing descriptive language for sound and light; writing a narrative scene with description.
A passage with questions.
A Year 5 student writes to her principal asking for a school vegetable garden. Students find the writer's arguments, work out why she…
A warm narrative about a family whose evening changes when a storm cuts the power. Students track events in order, infer how characters…
A three-day diary recount of a Year 5 school camp: kayaking on the lake, a night walk to see glow-worms and a ruru calling in the dark.…
Reading passages with questions that build literal, inferential and evaluative understanding. At Year 5, our resources focus on: identifying the main arguments in a persuasive letter; recognising how writers answer opposing views; inferring a writer's opinion from word choice; evaluating which argument is strongest.
Start with the Level 1 or Level 2 worksheet, then move up a level. Finish with the topic test if there is one.
Yes — every worksheet has an answer sheet. Maths answer sheets show the working; English tasks include model answers or success criteria.
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