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Grade 5 Animals Reading Comprehension Worksheets

Introduce young readers to reading comprehension in animals with our interactive and printable worksheets. These resources guide children through understanding and interpreting texts related to animals in an engaging and accessible format, improving overall reading proficiency.

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Pandas—Informational Text - worksheet educational content
Pandas—Informational Text
This informational text on pandas is a great way to practice reading comprehension. Students will read the text then ans...
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Sharks—Informational Text - worksheet educational content
Sharks—Informational Text
This informational text on the sharks will teach your students all about these incredible, ancient animals! Free respons...
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Informational Text—Tardigrades - worksheet educational content
Informational Text—Tardigrades
This informational text on tardigrades will teach your students all about this strange animal! Free response comprehensi...
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Pandas—Informational Text - worksheet educational content
Pandas—Informational Text
This informational text on pandas is a great way to practice reading comprehension. Students will read the text then ans...
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Informational Text — Penguins - worksheet educational content
Informational Text — Penguins
This informational text on penguins is a great way to practice reading comprehension. Students will read the short passa...
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Informational Text — Armadillos - worksheet educational content
Informational Text — Armadillos
This informational text on armadillos is a great way to practice reading comprehension. Students will read the short pas...
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Reading for Details —Penguins - worksheet educational content
Reading for Details —Penguins
Students read about penguins and answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about details in the informationa...
Reading for Details —Squirrels - worksheet educational content
Reading for Details —Squirrels
Students read about squirrels and practice asking and answering questions to identify key details from the passage. This...
Elephants —Context Clues - worksheet educational content
Elephants —Context Clues
This informational text is a great way to practice reading comprehension. Specific concepts targeted include author's pu...
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Text Features - worksheet educational content
Text Features
This worksheet on text features will help your students to navigate informational texts. Students will be given a text o...
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Fiction vs Nonfiction Texts — Tigers - worksheet educational content
Fiction vs Nonfiction Texts — Tigers
This worksheet on tigers is a great way to test to see if your class knows the difference between fiction and nonfiction...
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Scratching cat—Text structure - worksheet educational content
Scratching cat—Text structure
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Compare and Contrast How to Attract Birds & Butterflies - worksheet educational content
Compare and Contrast How to Attract Birds & Butterflies
This 1st grade informational text worksheet focuses on RI.1.9 by having students compare and contrast two passages
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Compare and Contrast Birds vs Bats - worksheet educational content
Compare and Contrast Birds vs Bats
This worksheet on comparing and contrasting informational texts is a great introduction to this skill. Students will com...
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Reading for Main Details—Beavers Teeth - worksheet educational content
Reading for Main Details—Beavers Teeth
This informational text on beavers is a great way to practice main idea. Students will read the passage, then give the m...
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Reading for Main Details—Birds - worksheet educational content
Reading for Main Details—Birds
This informational text on birds is a great way to practice main idea. Students will read the passage, then give the mai...
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Reading for Main Details—Orcas - worksheet educational content
Reading for Main Details—Orcas
Practie summarizing paragraphs with this fun science informational text on orcas! Students will give the main idea of ea...
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Blue Whales—Using Evidence - worksheet educational content
Blue Whales—Using Evidence
This reading comprehension worksheet has students read an informational passage about blue whales. It then asks 2 multip...
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Peregrines Supporting Evidence - worksheet educational content
Peregrines Supporting Evidence
This reading comprehension worksheet has students read a short informational passage about peregrine falcons. It then as...
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Penguins Supporting Evidence - worksheet educational content
Penguins Supporting Evidence
This informational text on penguins is a great way to practice finding the main point and reasons to support. This readi...
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Elephants—Informational Text - worksheet educational content
Elephants—Informational Text
This worksheet will help your students to find the main point an author is trying to make, as well as identify reasons. ...
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Animals at Farms—Informational Text - worksheet educational content
Animals at Farms—Informational Text
This informational text is a great way for early readers to practice their comprehension skills. Students will read the ...
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Informational Text —Learn About Dinosaurs - worksheet educational content
Informational Text —Learn About Dinosaurs
This informational text on dinosaurs with comprehension questions to follow is perfect for teaching main idea. Students ...
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Spider—Main Idea - worksheet educational content
Spider—Main Idea
This informational text on spiders is a great introduction to teaching main idea. Students will be asked, in multiple ch...
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Informational Text —Elephants Facts - worksheet educational content
Informational Text —Elephants Facts
This informational text on elephants with comprehension questions to follow is perfect for teaching main idea. Students ...
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My Book - worksheet educational content
My Book
This worksheet will help your class to understand the elements of a book cover. Students will decorate their own book co...
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Reading Comprehension: The Grand Canyon - worksheet educational content
Reading Comprehension: The Grand Canyon
This informational text on the Grand Canyon will teach your students all about this incredible wonder of the world! Free...
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All about shells—Informational Text - worksheet educational content
All about shells—Informational Text
This informational text on mollusks will teach your students all about these awesome animals! Free response comprehensio...
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Compare and Contrast Summer vs Winter - worksheet educational content
Compare and Contrast Summer vs Winter
This worksheet on comparing and contrasting informational texts is a great introduction to this skill. Students will com...
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Informational Text on Butterflies - worksheet educational content
Informational Text on Butterflies
This resource is a great way to practice differntiating between information gained from illustrations and words in a tex...
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Analyze Visual information—The Arctic Fox - worksheet educational content
Analyze Visual information—The Arctic Fox
This informational text about arctic foxes is a great opportunity to practice interacting with images in a text. Student...
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Sea Turtles Comparing Texts - worksheet educational content
Sea Turtles Comparing Texts
This reading comprehension worksheet has 5th grade students read two informational passages about sea turtles. Students ...
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Compare and Contrast Crocodiles & Alligators - worksheet educational content
Compare and Contrast Crocodiles & Alligators
These two reading passages are a great way to practice compare & contrast. Students will read one passage on alligators ...
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Compare and Contrast Moles & Gophers - worksheet educational content
Compare and Contrast Moles & Gophers
These two reading passages are a great way to practice compare & contrast. Students will read one passage on moles and o...
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Penguins—Informational Text - worksheet educational content
Penguins—Informational Text
This informational text on penguins is a great way to practice identifying and applying meaning to unknown words in a te...
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Otters—Informational Text - worksheet educational content
Otters—Informational Text
This informational text on otters is a great way to practice identifying unknown words in a text. Students will read the...
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Dirty Dog!—Sequence of Events - worksheet educational content
Dirty Dog!—Sequence of Events
This short story on how to wash a dog is perfect for teaching event sequencing and following steps! The steps for how to...
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Comparing Non-Fiction texts—All About Dolphins - worksheet educational content
Comparing Non-Fiction texts—All About Dolphins
This informational text on dolphins is the perfect resource for teaching compare and contrast. Students will read two s...
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Penguins— Main Purpose - worksheet educational content
Penguins— Main Purpose
This informational text on penguins with comprehension questions is a great way to practice reading fluency and main ide...
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Informational Text on Holi - worksheet educational content
Informational Text on Holi
This informational text on Holi is a great way to teach about this holiday and the story of Prahlad. Comprehension quest...
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Vegetarian Diet—Words and Phrases in a Text - worksheet educational content
Vegetarian Diet—Words and Phrases in a Text
Fifth-grade students will explore the world of vegetarian diets through this engaging worksheet aligned with CCS.RI.5.4....
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Informational Text —Bioluminescence - worksheet educational content
Informational Text —Bioluminescence
This informational text on bioluminescence will teach your students about this phenomenon. Examples in nature are provid...
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Informational Text — Habitats - worksheet educational content
Informational Text — Habitats
This short informational text on habitats will teach your students what a habitat is, as well as provide some examples o...
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Informational Text —Uh Oh, Where Did Gravity Go? - worksheet educational content
Informational Text —Uh Oh, Where Did Gravity Go?
This short informational text on gravity will teach your students about this natural phenomenon. A fun drawing activity ...
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Informational Text —Snowflakes - worksheet educational content
Informational Text —Snowflakes
This informational text on snowflakes will teach your students how snowflakes are formed. Images of several different fl...
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Hummingbirds—Reading Fluency - worksheet educational content
Hummingbirds—Reading Fluency
This informational text on hummingbirds with comprehension questions is a great way to practice reading comprehension. S...
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Natural Factors affecting Climate - worksheet educational content
Natural Factors affecting Climate
This science worksheet is designed to help students understand the significant impact of natural factors affecting Weath...
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Understanding Atoms - worksheet educational content
Understanding Atoms
This worksheet has students read an informational passage and answer multiple choice questions about the main idea and k...
Earthquakes and Infrastructure - worksheet educational content
Earthquakes and Infrastructure
Get this worksheet about the effects of earthquakes on infrastructure. The worksheet includes an informational passage t...
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Stars—Reading for Purpose - worksheet educational content
Stars—Reading for Purpose
This informational text on stars with comprehension questions is a great way to practice reading comprehension. Students...
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Polar Bears and Climate - worksheet educational content
Polar Bears and Climate
This informational text on polar bears is a great way to practice reading comprehension. Students will read the passage ...
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