5th Grade Main Idea and Details Worksheets

Ages 10-11 · 3 sub-topics · Free previews · Print-ready PDFs

These main idea and details worksheets for 5th grade teach children to find what a text is mostly about and retell it in a few sentences. Ten main idea sheets have children find or write the main idea of each paragraph, pick the best title, find the detail that does not belong and plan a paragraph with an organizer, and one more pairs a nonfiction passage about kindness with questions (CCSS RI.5.2). Fifteen summarizing sheets cover eight original stories, from a kayak race to a snow fort contest, with Somebody Wanted But So Then or beginning, middle and end charts and a written summary (RL.5.2), plus seven nonfiction passages with questions. There are 26 sheets; the 8 summarizing stories and 10 of the main idea sheets have an answer key.

Written by Adi Ackerman, Head Teacher