Reading Informational Texts Worksheet
Track nonfiction reading with this reading informational texts worksheet for 5th grade. Students log history, science and technical texts, recommend their favorites and rate each one with stars.
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This reading informational texts worksheet helps 5th grade students keep track of the nonfiction they read and think about it as they go. Fifth graders are expected to read history, science and technical texts on their own, and a simple reading log keeps that reading steady, varied and easy for a teacher or parent to check.
The reading informational texts worksheet starts with a strip of example text types sorted into three groups: history texts such as biographies, timelines and primary sources; science texts such as experiments, field guides and science articles; and technical texts such as how-to guides, manuals and recipes. Below the strip is a reading log with eleven rows. For each text, students write the title, name the kind of text, tell whether they would recommend it to a friend and shade one to five stars to rate it. Every answer is the student’s own, so the page has no single correct key.
What’s Included
- A reference strip of nine kinds of informational text in three groups
- An eleven-row reading log with Title, Kind of Text, Recommend? and Rating columns
- Five rating stars on every row
- One printable page with Name and Date lines
Why This Worksheet Helps Kids
First, naming the kind of text pushes students to notice how history, science and technical writing differ, which supports reading for structure and purpose. Second, deciding whether to recommend a text asks students to judge what they read instead of just finishing it. Third, a visible log builds reading stamina and gives students a record they can be proud of.
Ideas for Teachers and Parents
Send the log home for a month of independent reading, or keep it in a reading folder during guided reading time. Challenge students to fill at least one row from each group before the log is full. Use the Recommend? column to start a class book talk where students share their top-rated texts. This 5th grade reading log also pairs well with a lesson on text features and text structure.
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