Read Grade 5 Text With Fluency
Grade 5 Reading Worksheet - Challenge Me
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Anika's Glacier Report
Anika had to give a three-minute report on glaciers to her fifth-grade class on Monday. On Sunday afternoon, she practiced in the living room while her older brother, Rohan, sat on the couch with his arms crossed. He was a high school junior and, according to him, an expert at everything.
"Go ahead," he said. "Pretend I'm Mr. Fischer."
Anika held up her note cards and began. "A glacier is a huge, slow-moving mass of ice that forms on land. Glaciers form where more snow falls in winter than melts in summer. Year after year, the snow piles up. The weight of the new snow presses the older snow underneath into solid ice."
She paused. "How was that?"
"Fast," Rohan said. "You sounded like an auctioneer. Nobody could follow it."
Anika frowned, but she knew he was right. She had rushed because she was nervous. She started the next card more slowly.
"Although glaciers look still, they are always moving. Some creep only a few inches a day, while others, such as the Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland, have moved more than 100 feet in a single day."
She stumbled on the name. "Jack-ob... Jake... I don't know how to say that."
"Then break it into parts," Rohan suggested. "Yah-cob-shavn. Say it twice before you go on."
Anika tried it. "Yah-cob-shavn. Yah-cob-shavn Glacier." The second time sounded natural.
She went on. "As a glacier moves, it scrapes the ground beneath it. It carries rocks, from tiny pebbles to boulders as big as houses, and drops them far from where they started."
This time she read "builders as big as houses." She stopped and laughed. "Builders? That can't be right." She looked at the card again. "Boulders. Big rocks. That makes more sense, since the sentence is about rocks."
Rohan nodded. "See? You caught it yourself."
Her last card was the most important. "Today, many glaciers are shrinking. Glacier National Park in Montana had about 150 glaciers in 1850. Now it has fewer than 30. When glaciers melt, the water flows into rivers and oceans, which affects people, plants and animals far away."
Anika lowered her voice a little at "shrinking." She let the numbers sit for a moment before she went on. She wanted the class to notice the difference between 150 and 30.
When she finished, Rohan uncrossed his arms. "Okay," he said. "That was actually good. Not perfect, but good."
"Not perfect?" Anika asked.
"You still rushed the first card," he said. "Start slow. The first card is where your audience decides whether to listen."
On Monday, Anika began her report at a calm, steady pace. When she reached the glacier in Greenland, she said its name smoothly. When she reached the shrinking glaciers, the class grew quiet. Even Mr. Fischer stopped writing to listen.
Which reading groups the words of this sentence best? 'Some creep only a few inches a day, while others, such as the Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland, have moved more than 100 feet in a single day.'
- Some creep only a few inches a day, / while others, / such as the Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland, / have moved more than 100 feet in a single day.
- Some creep / only a few inches a day while others such / as the Jakobshavn / Glacier in Greenland have moved more than 100 feet in a single day.
- Some creep only a / few inches a day while / others such as the Jakobshavn / Glacier in Greenland have moved more than 100 / feet in a single day.
- Some creep only a few inches / a day while others such as the / Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland have moved / more than 100 feet in a single day.
Rohan says Anika 'sounded like an auctioneer.' What does he mean?
- She paused too long between every sentence.
- She spoke so fast that listeners could not follow.
- She spoke so loudly that she hurt his ears.
- She read each fact as if she were selling it.
How did Anika know she had misread 'boulders'?
- Rohan stopped her and told her the word.
- She had read that card many times before.
- 'Builders' did not fit a sentence about rocks.
- The word was printed in bold on her card.
Why did Rohan's advice help Anika say 'Jakobshavn'?
- Skipping the name let her keep a quick pace.
- Reading the name faster hid her first mistake.
- Small parts, said twice, let the name come out smoothly.
- Calling it 'a glacier' kept the same meaning.
Anika 'let the numbers sit for a moment' on her last card. What did she want her listeners to understand?
- how large the rocks in a glacier can be
- how much the number of glaciers had dropped
- how many years she had studied glaciers
- how fast the glacier in Greenland moves
'Although glaciers look still, they are always moving.' Which word should a reader stress to bring out the contrast?
- Although
- they
- moving
- glaciers