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Self-Awareness Reading Comprehension Passages — Grade 5

Grade 5 · Self-Awareness · Reading Comprehension

Yusra’s grandmother always said she was good at calming the little cousins.

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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: Self-Awareness

About this resource

Yusra’s grandmother always said she was good at calming the little cousins. These free self-awareness reading comprehension passages give Grade 5 readers ten texts at F&P levels S–V, one for each part of Self-Awareness: naming feelings, body signals, strengths, self-talk, mistakes, values and triggers. The full set is free with a free account (no card needed), and it builds SEL inside your literacy time.

What students practice

Understanding what naming a feeling does and does not do
Understanding the body–feeling connection
Seeing how a strength grows over time and serves others
Sharing who you are with your community
Borrowing helpful words from family for self-talk
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 narrative nonfiction story, a first-person reflection and a compare-and-contrast piece

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

The Busy Nerves in Your BellyExplains that the gut has its own large web of nerves that sends messages to the brain, why worry or excitement can show up as belly flutters, and why noticing them helps.

The Calligrapher Who Lettered the Welcome SignsLaleh once kept her family’s calligraphy at home, afraid it seemed old-fashioned.

The Year I Stopped Hiding My Mix-UpsSorcha printed the wrong date on her little brother’s party invitations and hid them, face burning.

Fifth Graders Build a Timeline of ThemselvesThe school paper reports on fifth graders who each added one memory from every grade to a hallway timeline, then reflected on how they have changed.

Triggers I Can Dodge, Triggers I Must FaceCompares Agathe’s triggers she can steer around, like the crowded coat rack she now visits last, with ones she can’t avoid, like her brother’s trumpet practice, and the different plan each one needs.

How to use these self-awareness reading passages in Grade 5

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

A short SEL lessonRead “Naming a Feeling: What It Does and Doesn’t Do” 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 “Golnar the Spinning Top Finds Her Center”

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.