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Decision-Making Reading Comprehension Passages — Grade 5

Grade 5 · Responsible Decision‑Making · Reading Comprehension

Fifth graders and their principal tackle the morning jam at the school bike rack.

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Grade: 5
What you get: 10 passages at F&P levels S–V in ten text types44 pages
Type: Reading Comprehension
Use it: Print + digitaldigital = one link, no student logins
Competency: Responsible Decision‑Making

About this resource

Fifth graders and their principal tackle the morning jam at the school bike rack. These free decision-making reading comprehension passages give Grade 5 readers ten texts at F&P levels S–V, one for each part of Responsible Decision-Making: careful, honest and fair choices, solving problems, owning mistakes, asking for guidance and acting for others. The full set is free with a free account (no card needed), and it builds SEL inside your literacy time.

What students practice

How consequences can grow and come back to you
Choosing what’s fair over what helps you
Seeking guidance while keeping your own choice
Finding why a mistake happened and choosing a better first step next time
Deciding to act for your community
Answering multiple-choice and written-response questions about what they read

What’s inside

10passages at F&P levels S–V in ten text types, including a first-person reflection, a problem-and-solution story and a school news feature

5multiple-choice questions per passage

2open-ended questions per passage that call for written answers

44pages

Answer key for the multiple-choice questions

A look inside

Two Fixes for the Jammed Bike RackFifth graders and their principal tackle the morning jam at the school bike rack.

What the Front Step SawQuarry the Front Step tells how, over five years, Rokuro acted the same whether or not neighbors watched: returning a dropped key, owning a dented mail slot, keeping his word.

Field Day for EveryoneOn the field day planning team, Ekaterina sees that the events she usually wins reward only fast runners.

How to Ask for Guidance on a Big DecisionGives steps for a big choice like joining a new team: name the decision, choose a trusted adult, ask open questions, listen to other views, and then make the choice yourself.

Benches for Museum HillReporters follow fifth graders who saw older neighbors resting on the steep museum walk.

How to use these decision-making reading passages in Grade 5

Small reading groups at levels S–V, working through the multiple-choice questions together

A short SEL lessonRead “Snowballs and Boomerangs: How Consequences Grow and Come Back” aloud and talk it through together

Independent practice or homework, checked later with the answer key

Written responseStudents answer the two open-ended questions after a passage such as “How Footsteps Wear a Path”

Grade fit

Passages run from about 440 to 540 words, and the later ones ask fifth graders to weigh choices, follow an argument and back up their answers with the text. Levels climb from S to V across the set.

Digital version

With the interactive digital version, you share one link and students read each passage and answer the questions on any device, with no student logins. At the end they download an answer sheet to hand in.