Reading

Prepare your students to answer test questions about an author's purpose for writing a passage. The five worksheets feature fiction and nonfiction reading passages written for upper elementary students. Three or four comprehension questions follow each passage, making them perfect for test prep. The first question is always about the author's purpose for writing the passage. The remaining questions cover a variety of reading skills and standards, including main idea, context clues, author's...

These figurative language worksheets are both fun and challenging! Similes, metaphors, alliteration, personification, hyperboles, onomatopoeias, and idioms are targeted. Students must identify each literary device within sentences and within a paragraph. They must also write their own sentences.

This idioms worksheet packs a punch!! So many idiom practice activities are included in this idioms worksheet. To begin, students match idioms to their meanings. Next, students read a longer passage and identify the idioms in the paragraph. Finally, students write their own short passage that features a few idioms. This is just one worksheet in this packet of seven figurative language worksheets! Other worksheets in this packet focus on similes, metaphors, alliteration, onomatopoeias...

Identifying nonfiction text structures can be a challenging skill for students to master. Students need lots of practice to become proficient in this area. These no-prep informational text structure task cards are ready to go for you. Just print and go! Students read and analyze 32 passages and then identify each passages text structure: compare and contrast, cause and effect, problem and solution, description, or sequence. These nonfiction text structure task cards have been designed to...

Use this character traits PowerPoint activity to teach students how to infer character traits using the clues provided in a text. They will analyze a character's feelings, actions, thoughts, and dialogue within a story in order to infer a character trait. 22 character trait words are featured. This reading PowerPoint consists of twelve practice passages, making it ideal for test prep. It can easily be converted to Google Slides, and it contains both a printable and digital companion handout!

Do you want your 4th and 5th grade students to practice reading passages and answering standards-based questions? When it is time to tackle those standardized tests, your students will feel prepared and confident! This resource contains 20 reading passages: 10 nonfiction, 9 fiction, and 1 poem). Each worksheet contains a passage followed by six multiple-choice questions that review a variety of reading skills. Use these to model, as morning work, as homework, or as part of a small group...