5th Grade Close Reading Printables (by date, latest first)

Students often struggle to write clear, structured responses to questions, leaving their answers disorganized or incomplete. This RACE Strategy Writing Response Pack is the perfect solution to help your students craft organized and thoughtful written responses! With clear guidance on the RACE method—Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain—this resource will transform how your students approach written questions.

Features & Benefits:

• 6 Worksheets (12 Prompts): Offer a wide range of practice with engaging topics, allowing students to apply the RACE strategy in different contexts.
• 3 Exit Tickets: Quickly assess students’ understanding and ability to use the RACE strategy independently.
• RACE Bookmarks: Visual aids to help students remember each step of the process, ensuring they can structure their responses with ease.

Why It Works:
The RACE strategy helps students break down complex questions and answer them step-by-step, promoting clearer, more focused writing. These tools not only build essential writing skills but also improve overall comprehension and critical thinking.

Equip your students with the skills they need to become confident, organized writers. Grab this RACE Strategy Writing Response Pack today and watch their written responses improve!

Students often struggle to write clear, structured responses to questions, leaving their answers disorganized or incomplete. This RACE Strategy Writing Response Pack is the perfect solution to help your students craft organized and thoughtful written responses! With clear guidance on the RACE method—Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain—this resource will transform how your students approach written questions.

Features & Benefits:

• 6 Worksheets (12 Prompts): Offer a wide range of practice with engaging topics, allowing students to apply the RACE strategy in different contexts.
• 3 Exit Tickets: Quickly assess students’ understanding and ability to use the RACE strategy independently.
• RACE Bookmarks: Visual aids to help students remember each step of the process, ensuring they can structure their responses with ease.

Why It Works:
The RACE strategy helps students break down complex questions and answer them step-by-step, promoting clearer, more focused writing. These tools not only build essential writing skills but also improve overall comprehension and critical thinking.

Equip your students with the skills they need to become confident, organized writers. Grab this RACE Strategy Writing Response Pack today and watch their written responses improve!

**Martin Luther King Jr Writing Activities Printable Worksheets 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Grade.

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Martin Luther King Jr Activities Printable Worksheets 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Grade. This resource includes True/False and Fill in the Blanks activities designed to help students reinforce key concepts about Martin Luther King Jr. Ideal for 2nd to 5th-grade classrooms, these printable worksheets are perfect for independent practice, small group work, or as quick formative assessments

Boost your students' understanding of story elements and plot structure with this comprehensive printable pack of 10 reading comprehension passages designed for grades 4-6. Each passage explores story elements like characters, setting, plot, and structure through engaging, age-appropriate content. Perfect for reinforcing plot comprehension and encouraging students to delve deeper into narrative details.

With two activity worksheet options per passage, this pack provides flexibility and variety:

• Worksheet 1: Includes 10 multiple-choice questions focusing on plot comprehension and story elements.
• Worksheet 2: Features 12 higher-order questions in multiple formats to boost higher-order thinking skills.

This resource contains 50 pages total, making it easy to print and go for fast, effective lesson planning. Ideal for ELA classrooms in grades 4-6, each activity comes with an answer key for efficient assessment.

Why You’ll Love This Resource:

• Focus on Key Story Elements: Each passage highlights plot structure and essential story elements.
• Print and Use: No prep required—simply print and go!
• Versatile Formats: Choose from multiple-choice or mixed-question worksheets to meet diverse learning needs.
• Grades 4-6 Comprehension: Aligned with common ELA standards for upper elementary grades.

Use this story elements pack to deepen plot comprehension and improve students’ ability to analyze and understand story structure—all while fostering a love of reading!

I hope you find this resource just as helpful for your students as it has been for mine!

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What’s Included:

• Reading log templates for daily or weekly use (2 per page)
• 30 engaging comprehension prompts
• Space to add your own required reading amount and due date
• Space for students to track their progress 
• Perfect for independent reading, homework, or classroom activities

What’s Included?

• 20 Bookmarks, each featuring a critical reading skill or strategy for grades 3 - 8:

  • Main Idea & Supporting Details
  • Summarizing
  • Making Inferences
  • Context Clues
  • Identifying Theme
  • and many more!

Why You'll Love This Resource

• Student-Friendly Format: Each bookmark simplifies complex skills into bite-sized, actionable steps.
• Versatile Use: Perfect for guided reading groups, independent practice, or homework aids.
• Aligned with Curriculum Standards: Helps reinforce essential reading skills aligned with Common Core and other standards.
• Durable and Reusable: Print, laminate, and reuse for years!

The book, Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas is great for children ages 7 - 13 years old, as they can relate with Bree as she moves to a new state, starts a new middle school, makes friends along the way and the challenges with friendships she struggles to maintain, the lack of self confidence she has, and she becomes more confident along the way, how she solves disagreements with friends, tries her best, shares her talents with others, adjusts to changes that occur in her life, learning that it is okay not to be friends with everyone, the importance of friendship, doing things that you want to do - being a leader instead of a follower, and how to handle stressful situations, anxiety, conflict, and bullying.

The comprehension questions in this product relate with the text as well as students own experiences. Vocabulary words, their meanings, and example sentences are presented in the packet. Students can also write vocabulary words in sentences. As the book is being read aloud, as students are reading the book or after the book has been read, students can answer the comprehension questions in this packet. Comprehension questions are broken down into chapters that match the book's 9 chapters. An answer key is provided at the end of this product. Students can also answer comprehension questions towards the end of the packet as well that relate with the entire book.

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This bundle includes informational reading on President's annual turkey pardon ceremony for Thanksgiving in 2 formats - flipbook and packet with comprehension questions and vocabulary. It also contains a. persuasive letter writing craft activity with teacher instruction, rubric, student checklist, and sample writing.

This product contains Thanksgiving Dinner themed Reading, Math, Writing, Art, Word search and Fun facts. It also includes comprehension questions with answer key. This can packet can be used as a fun classroom activity, independent student work, or can as Fall break homework.

This product contains the true story of Thanksgiving turkey pardoning in two different formats. It can be printed as a flip book or as a packet (front and back). The product contains vocabulary and comprehension questions with an answer key page for teachers.

This product includes a 5 page Veteran's Day flip book. Students can highlight key details and write a short thank you note or message in the flip book. They can color the flag on the front cover.

Pair with:

VETERAN'S DAY DIFFERENTIATED WRITING

Planning for a fun activity before Christmas/Winter break? Here's a "Twist into Holidays-Candy Cane Day!" fun packet with informational and non-fiction reading, map skills, comprehension questions, Science experiment, Writing, and Math. The packet includes answer key and instructions for Science experiment for teachers.

Looking for a winter-themed, engaging and informative reading comprehension activity full of useful tips on how to stay healthy during flu season? This scavenger hunt is designed to help students practice skim reading, looking for context clues, and learn some useful vocabulary.

It’s perfect for EFL / ESL students at the B1/B2 level and can also be used for native English classes at grade levels 5 - 7. With low prep, just print and hang, it contains 10 tips on how to stay healthy during flu season.

The scavenger hunt is designed so that students have to revisit and reread the reading passages multiple times when looking for code words. The answer to each question is located on a different reading passage card. Once students have answered all the questions, they unscramble the letters to reveal the final answer - the name of the murderer.

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

♥ 10 reading passages

♥ answer sheets

♥ mission page

♥ directions

♥ teacher answer key

♥ conclusion

Options for use:

☻Independent Work

☻Pair Work

☻Sub plan

☻Stations

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Set your student's up for success with this Learning Strategies Bundle. With Reading, Writing and Mathematics Strategies to assist with your students reading, writing and ability to work mathematically.

This Bundle is a great way to keep your student's focused and working towards a learning goal. They can also be used as a bulletin board display.

All Strategy Posters are made to match my Geometric Design theme, so you can create a stylish environment for your students to learn, grow and achieve.

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Reading strategies enable our students to comprehend a text in a variety of ways and develop a deeper understanding of how texts are constructed. They use these strategies to express what they have just read, make connections, draw conclusions and further engage with a text.

These posters can be used to display the learning focus for a lesson, unit or student goal. Created to match my Geometric Design theme, they are also an interesting way to display reading strategies in your classroom.

What's Included:

• British and American Spelling
• Two different Reading Strategy Designs
• 10 Different Reading Strategies.

Reading Strategies Include:

• Visualising/Visualizing
• Questioning
• Adjusting
• Summarising/Summarizing
• Inferring
• Predicting
• Synthesising/Synthesizing
• Connecting
• Analysing/Analyzing
• Critiquing

This Reading Comprehension - Summarizing Pack can be used with any text, both fiction and nonfiction. With differentiated graphic organisers, to build your students 'summarizing' skills and depth of understanding.

What's Included:

• 6 Different Summarizing graphic organisers (American and British Spelling)
• Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then Poster
• Summarizing Bookmark

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These main idea short passages with main idea questions worksheets help students practice identifying the main idea. It is designed for students in 4th to 6th grade and can be used in a variety of settings including small group instruction, independent work, and homework assignments.

Benefits:

• Engaging content about interesting animals

• No prep needed for teachers

• Versatile resource for various types of instruction

Instructions/Tips for Implementation:

Teachers can read the passages aloud to students and then review the answers together. Alternatively, students can work on the worksheets independently. This resource can also be used for whole group instruction, small group work, as a reward activity, or as homework assignments.

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Looking for a Friday the thirteenth-themed, engaging and informative reading comprehension activity about superstitions and their origin? This scavenger hunt is designed to help students practice skim reading, looking for context clues, and learn some useful vocabulary.

It’s perfect for EFL / ESL students at the B1/B2 level and can also be used for native English classes at grade levels 5 - 7. With low prep, just print and hang, it contains 10 reading passages about superstitions and Friday the 13th.

The scavenger hunt is designed so that students have to revisit and reread the reading passages multiple times when looking for code words. The answer to each question is located on a different reading passage card. Once students have answered all the questions, they unscramble the letters to reveal the final answer - the name of the murderer.

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

♥ 10 reading passages

♥ answer sheets

♥ mission page

♥ directions

♥ teacher answer key

♥ conclusion

Options for use:

☻Independent Work

☻Pair Work

☻Sub plan

☻Stations

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Product Features:

• 20 Unique Bingo Cards: Each card features a variety of words derived from key Latin roots like sens (feeling), habitare (to live), port (to carry), and trans (across/beyond). No two cards are the same, making every game exciting!
• Root-Based Vocabulary: Includes over 20 words such as sensitive, habitat, portable, and transport, each tied to its Latin origin to deepen understanding.