Comprehension exercises for fifth grade
These worksheets dive deeper into comprehension skills, story elements and text structures providing students with practice in reading and analyzing fiction and non-fiction texts.
Main ideas, details & summary: identify the main ideas of texts
Paired texts - story details: compare the details of two similar texts
Story elements: character analysis, plots, themes and conflict
Author's purpose: identify and analyze the author's purpose in given texts
Point of view: identify the author's point of view and how it affects the text
Fact vs opinion: are Uncle Ben's statements facts or opinions?
Context clues: use context clues to understand new words
Inferences: make inferences as you read
Prediction worksheets: read actively & predict what comes next
Figurative language: similes, metaphors, idioms, personification and more
Text structure - Compare and contrast: identify comparison signal words & analyze
Text structure - Sequencing: identify sequencing signal words and order events
Text structure - Cause and effect: identify cause and effect signal words and analyze
Text structure - Descriptive text: identify descriptive signal words and key details
Text structure - Problem and solution: identify the problem & proposed solutions
Identifying text structure: read texts and identify the text structure used
Sample grade 5 reading comprehension exercises
