Reading practice
Grade 5 reading comprehension
Read a passage, answer the questions, and see why each answer is right. Your Grade 5 reading score climbs with every passage.
Skills practised: Author's purpose · Cause and effect · Character traits · Compare and contrast · Data · Details · Evaluate · Evidence · Inference · Main idea · Plot · Point of view · Read a schedule · Read a table · Read a timeline · Sequence · Text features · Text structure · Theme · Timeline math · Vocabulary
Stories
- The Science Fair SwitchCharacter traits, Inference, Compare and contrast
Nonfiction
- Where Does Ocean Plastic Come From?Main idea, Sequence, Vocabulary
- How the Camel SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Red-Eyed Tree Frog SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Humpback Whale SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Sea Otter SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Bald Eagle SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Great White Shark SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Beaver SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Arctic Fox SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the African Elephant SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Snowy Owl SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Sea Turtle SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Roadrunner SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Honeybee SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Scorpion SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Sloth SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Springbok SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Hedgehog SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the American Bison SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Earth: the Third PlanetDetails, Cause and effect, Vocabulary
- Uranus: the Seventh PlanetDetails, Cause and effect, Vocabulary
- Your MusclesMain idea, Details, Vocabulary
- Your TeethMain idea, Details, Vocabulary
Compare two texts
- Two Ways to Survive: the Arctic Fox and the Snowy OwlCompare and contrast, Details, Main idea
- Two Ways to Survive: the Red-Eyed Tree Frog and the ChameleonCompare and contrast, Details, Main idea
- Two Ways to Survive: the Monarch Butterfly and the Komodo DragonCompare and contrast, Details, Main idea
- Two Ways to Survive: the Hummingbird and the KiwiCompare and contrast, Details, Main idea
Read a table
- Animal Fact Table 2Read a table, Text features
- Animal Fact Table 5Read a table, Text features
- Animal Fact Table 8Read a table, Text features
- Planet Fact Table 2Read a table, Text features, Inference
- Favorite Fruit in Room 12Read a table, Data, Text features
- How Students Get to SchoolRead a table, Data, Text features
- Tickets Sold For the School PlayRead a table, Data, Text features
- Five-Day Forecast: ChicagoRead a table, Data, Inference
- Five-Day Forecast: DublinRead a table, Data, Inference
- Five-Day Forecast: Cape TownRead a table, Data, Inference
- Countries of South America 2Read a table, Data, Text features
- Countries of Africa 1Read a table, Data, Text features
- US States and Their Capitals 2Read a table, Text features
- US States and Their Capitals 4Read a table, Text features
- US States and Their Capitals 6Read a table, Text features
- Provinces of Canada and Their Capitals 2Read a table, Text features
Biographies
- Marie Curie: a Life in ScienceSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Jane Goodall: a Life in ScienceSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Thomas Edison: a Life in ScienceSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Louis Pasteur: a Life in ScienceSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Isaac Newton: a Life in ScienceSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Frederick Banting: a Life in ScienceSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Fiona Wood: a Life in ScienceSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Kathleen Lonsdale: a Life in ScienceSequence, Details, Timeline math
Read a timeline
- Timeline: Ada LovelaceRead a timeline, Timeline math, Text features
- Timeline: Thomas EdisonRead a timeline, Timeline math, Text features
- Timeline: Isaac NewtonRead a timeline, Timeline math, Text features
- Timeline: Frederick BantingRead a timeline, Timeline math, Text features
- Timeline: Kathleen LonsdaleRead a timeline, Timeline math, Text features
Timetable
- Bus Timetable 3Read a schedule, Inference, Text features
How-to
- How to Make a Bird Feeder from a Pine ConeSequence, Cause and effect, Details