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Free Printable Fifth Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets

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These free English Language Arts reading worksheets will help kids practice their comprehension skills. Find an English worksheet for 5th grade that fascinates, spark discussions, and challenges your readers below!.

A Rose for Ellen: FREE Reading Passage and Comprehension Questions
Hook Your Students: ask your 5th graders about their relationships with the grandparents. Explain that this story is about a young person who learned a surprising fact about her grandmother that changed the way she viewed her.
Wuz Yer Name: FREE Reading Passage and Comprehension Questions
Hook Your Students: ask your 5th graders about their first friendship. Test their comprehension after reading by asking them to characterize the protagonist’s friendship using descriptive language.
Struggling to Speak: FREE Reading Passage and Comprehension Questions
Hook Your Students: ask your 5th graders to share their knowledge of physical disabilities. What else makes a person with physical disabilities’ life challenging BESIDES the disability itself? Test their comprehension by revisiting this question after they read the ELA passage.
Mister Trash Wheel: FREE Reading Passage and Comprehension Questions
Hook Your Students: ask your 5th grade English students why pollution is a problem. What do people do to cause it? What are people doing to solve it? Can they think of any inventions or innovations that cut down on pollution?
Imaginary Languages: FREE Reading Passage and Comprehension Questions
Hook Your Students: ask your 5th graders what their first word was. Let them share out on the funny misspoken or made-up words they used as toddlers in order to transition to the topic of this reading comprehension passage.

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