On this page, I have compiled my most highly recommended reading activities for literacy instruction in 4th and 5th grade. Under the title of each resource, you will find complete samples that you can download, print, and try out with your students.
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4th and 5th Grade Reading Skills Bundle
This huge resource includes the reading activities and resources that I use to teach my major reading skills and standards. The reading activities included in the resource include:
- Reading Charts/Posters
- Graphic Organizers
- Reading Passages
- Small Group Reading Activities
- And often much more, depending on the resource.
—-> Click here to download a free reading passage and poster from my Story Elements set.
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4th and 5th Grade Reading Resources
Everything you need to teach key reading skills for 4th and 5th grade! This is a bundle of 16 of my reading resources for 4th and 5th grade reading and literacy skills.
5th Grade Reading Exit Slips
Reading exit slips are an effective, easy to implement way to assess students with reading skills and standards.
—> Click here to download free reading exit slips that assess fiction and nonfiction comprehension.
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5th Grade Reading Exit Slips
Need a quick and easy way to assess your students on the reading skills you teach? These 51 reading exit slips are perfect for assessing your readers on a regular basis.Paired Passages 4th/5th Grade
Paired passages are huge on state exams now. Students need several opportunities to read paired passages and answer questions that require the students to use both passages. It is difficult to create paired passage questions on a whim. To help, I created paired passage resources. They include engaging paired passages and rigorous questions that provide the practice that students need.
Click here to see a discounted bundle of my most popular paired passage resources.
Reading Choice Boards
Using choice boards is an effective (and easy prep) way to offer students choice when they are learning various reading skills. These reading choice boards allow you to offer your students choice while also ensuring they are practicing grade-level reading skills. The reading choice boards are perfect reading activities for reading centers, reading homework, and early finishers.
Interested in more reading choice boards? Click on your grade level to see full sets.
Reading Centers 4th/5th Grade
Saved the best for last! These next few reading activities are my absolute favorite reading resources. They work perfectly for reading centers, reading stations, small group reading instruction, and more!
Reading Games
These reading games are prefect for small group instruction that can carry over into a reading center. This free reading activity includes one reading passage and a game-board with text-dependent questions. I like to read and discuss the passage as a whole group or small group reading activity and then have the students “play” the game at a reading center or station.
—> Click here to download a free reading game!
Reading Roll and Answer Centers
This next reading activity is pretty simple but still a nice change from just answering questions. The students read a text and then roll two dice to determine which question they will answer. You could make this more engaging by having the students play it BUMP style.
—> Click here to download a free roll and answer reading center.
Click in the box below to see a bundle of the two above reading activities, which are also sold separately.
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Reading Centers and Games
Do you need engaging and low prep reading centers for upper elementary? This BUNDLE includes 44 reading centers with texts. The reading centers are rigorous and engaging and even your more reluctant readers will enjoy reading with these reading games.
Reading Puzzles
These reading puzzles are the perfect way to get your students to practice grade level reading skills in a hands-on way.
—> Click here to download a free mini-set of reading puzzles for identifying text structures.
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Reading Puzzles
Reading centers are the perfect way to have your students practice reading skills in isolation of novels and independent reading. This bundle of my reading puzzles for 4th and 5th grade is perfect for reading centers, small group reading practice, or even re-teaching.Reading Spinners
Really want students to go deep with a reading skill or standard? Try these reading spinners. They take one reading skill and have the students dive deep by answering a variety of questions related to that reading skill.
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Reading Spinners for 4th and 5th Grade
Engage your students with different reading skills with these simple to prep and implement reading spinner centers!
4th and 5th Grade Reading Homework
If you are looking for a simple to implement, but rigorous reading homework program for your 4th and 5th graders, I highly recommend checking out this resource. Here are the key features that I love:
- One passage per week to allow the students to close read, build fluency, and really dig into one text
- Skills-based sets allow you to spiral your standards and reading skills all year
- Works with any pacing guide
—-> Click here to download a free reading homework set to try out with your students.
Click here to purchase the Reading Homework Bundle for 4th and 5th grade!
3rd Grade Reading Homework
Do you have readers reading below grade level and want to make sure they can comprehend and successfully complete their reading homework? I recommend checking out my 3rd grade reading homework, which is set up the same way as my 4th and 5th grade set.
—-> Click here to download a free week of the 3rd grade reading homework to try out!
Click here to purchase the 3rd Grade Reading Homework Bundle.
5th Grade Language Resources
In 5th grade, I have found that the language standards are not often the same grammar needs that my students have. So, I teach grammar that is at my students’ level during writing workshop. For the language standards, I use a quick and easy to implement curriculum that only requires 10-15 minutes a day. Each set in the curriculum includes the following:
- Teaching Posters/Charts
- Practice Printables
- 4 Day Practice
- Assessment
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5th Grade Language and Grammar Resources
This resource is a bundle of all of my Language Supplemental Resources for 5th Grade Common Core. This bundle gives you everything you need to introduce, practice, and assess your 5th Grade ELA standards (language only).P.S. I also have language task cards and language centers, if you are looking for more language resources. You can view a MEGA Bundle of all my 5th grade language resources by clicking here (this includes the resource described above!)
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