14 free reading resources for 5th Grade, 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…
Students discover that many English words grow from Latin and Greek roots, such as struct (build), rupt (break) and aud (hear), and that…
Students learn to work out the meaning of an unfamiliar word from the words around it. They use four kinds of context clue (a definition,…
Add a prefix to the start of a word and work out how the prefix changes the meaning (un- = not, re- = again, dis- = not, pre- = before,…
Choose the word that means the same (synonym) or the opposite (antonym) to build vocabulary. Starts with the most common words and the…
Add a prefix to the start of a word and work out how the prefix changes the meaning (un- = not, re- = again, dis- = not, pre- = before,…
Choose the word that means the same (synonym) or the opposite (antonym) to build vocabulary. Expected-level practice with the main…
Add a prefix to the start of a word and work out how the prefix changes the meaning (un- = not, re- = again, dis- = not, pre- = before,…
Choose the word that means the same (synonym) or the opposite (antonym) to build vocabulary. A challenge set with trickier and irregular…
Choose the word that means the same (synonym) or the opposite (antonym) to build vocabulary. A challenge set with trickier and irregular…
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 an elementary school environment club cleaning up a local creek. Students locate facts and quotes, infer what…
An information text about Big Bend National Park in West Texas, where the Rio Grande forms the border with Mexico and desert, mountains…
An original poem about a hot Texas summer afternoon that breaks into a thunderstorm and then clears. Students track how the weather and…
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.
