Science, Nonfiction, Social Studies Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions

This resource has (37) reading comprehension passages for 5th & 6th graders (111 worksheets in total, spread throughout 517 pages with full answer keys). The passages will stimulate your students’ interests and pique their curiosity through Science, Social Studies, and Nonfiction / Informational lessons.

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This bundle includes the following:

A. SCIENCE PASSAGES:

1. All About Candy

2. Fingerprints

3. Volcanoes

4. Types of Stars

5. Baseball and Science

6. Goosebumps

7. Red-eye in Photography

8. Green Tea

9. The Kite Experiment

10. Light

11. Cats and Sweets

12. Igneous Rocks

13. The Dark Chamber

14. Contact Lenses

15. Bioluminescence

B. SOCIAL STUDIES PASSAGES:

1. Language Evolution

2. Franklin's Virtues of Life

3. Criminal Profiling

4. The End of Racism in American Baseball

5. The Giant's Causeway of Northern Ireland

6. Untold Truths about Beverages

7. Sinkholes

8. Addicted to Sugar

9. Phobias

10. Benjamin Franklin

11. Tea Cultures Around the World

12. Diwali

13. Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

C. NON-FICTION PASSAGES:

1. Pentagram

2. Pointillism

3. Origins of Glass making

4. Van Gogh's Starry Paintings

5. Cricket, or Baseball?

6. Sugar Production

7. Unsolved Art Heist

8. Baseball Caps

9. Bach's Coffee Cantata

* Each lesson is divided into 3 worksheets to facilitate checking your students’ understanding as follow:

>>> Worksheet 1: has three main sections:

Section (A): Context Clues question before reading the passage.

Section (B): The passage followed by a set of multiple-choice questions and short-answer questions to check students’ comprehension of the: Main Idea, Purpose, Vocabulary, Details, and Inferences.

Section (C): Make an outline of the reading passage and write a summary.

>>> Worksheet 2: is a homework handout that helps students improve their vocabulary and understanding of grammar usage through a set of questions related to the reading passage.

>>> Worksheet 3: has extra vocabulary activities to help students improve their use of vocabulary through using key words in context and understanding antonyms, synonyms, and idioms.