1. The story is about a boy named Nelson who is bullied by a boy named Big Reggie for having skinny legs.
2. Nelson is a superb basketball player and gets revenge on Big Reggie during a gym class basketball game by showing off his skills.
3. After the game, the teacher locks the students out of the school, but Nelson finds a small space between the gates that he can slip through. Big Reggie gets stuck trying to squeeze through.
4. Nelson initially waves goodbye to Big Reggie when he gets stuck but eventually helps push him free.
5. After this incident, Nelson owns the nickname "Bird Legs" and is cheered on by that name during his basketball games
1. The story is about a boy named Nelson who is bullied by a boy named Big Reggie for having skinny legs.
2. Nelson is a superb basketball player and gets revenge on Big Reggie during a gym class basketball game by showing off his skills.
3. After the game, the teacher locks the students out of the school, but Nelson finds a small space between the gates that he can slip through. Big Reggie gets stuck trying to squeeze through.
4. Nelson initially waves goodbye to Big Reggie when he gets stuck but eventually helps push him free.
5. After this incident, Nelson owns the nickname "Bird Legs" and is cheered on by that name during his basketball games
1. The story is about a boy named Nelson who is bullied by a boy named Big Reggie for having skinny legs.
2. Nelson is a superb basketball player and gets revenge on Big Reggie during a gym class basketball game by showing off his skills.
3. After the game, the teacher locks the students out of the school, but Nelson finds a small space between the gates that he can slip through. Big Reggie gets stuck trying to squeeze through.
4. Nelson initially waves goodbye to Big Reggie when he gets stuck but eventually helps push him free.
5. After this incident, Nelson owns the nickname "Bird Legs" and is cheered on by that name during his basketball games
1. The story is about a boy named Nelson who is bullied by a boy named Big Reggie for having skinny legs.
2. Nelson is a superb basketball player and gets revenge on Big Reggie during a gym class basketball game by showing off his skills.
3. After the game, the teacher locks the students out of the school, but Nelson finds a small space between the gates that he can slip through. Big Reggie gets stuck trying to squeeze through.
4. Nelson initially waves goodbye to Big Reggie when he gets stuck but eventually helps push him free.
5. After this incident, Nelson owns the nickname "Bird Legs" and is cheered on by that name during his basketball games
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Grade 5 Reading Comprehension Worksheet
THE LARK AND THE FARMER
Read the story. Then answer the questions.
In a field of wheat there was a Lark's nest, and in the nest there were four young Larks almost large enough to fly. One morning when the mother Lark was going out for something to eat she said to her little ones: "The wheat is now ripe enough to be cut, so keep wide awake, and when I come home tell meall that you hear." The little Larks promised that they would do so. She was hardly out of sight when the Farmer who owned the field came with his son. "John," he said, "it is time that this wheat was cut. Go to our neighbors and ask them to come tomorrow and help us." When the old Lark came home the young ones told her what they had heard; and they begged her to move them out of the field. "There is no hurry," she said. "If hewaits for his neighbors he will have to wait a long time." The next day while the mother Lark was away, the Farmer and his son came again. "John, did you ask the neighbors to come?" said the Farmer. "Yes, sir," said John, "They all promised to be here early." said the Farmer, "since our neighbors have failed us, we must call in our kinsfolk and ask them to come tomorrow and help us." The young Larks told their mother all about it. "Mother," they said, "Our wings are strong enough; let us fly away right now." "Don't be in a hurry," said the mother. "If the Farmer waits for his kinsfolk, the wheat will not be cut tomorrow." She went out again the next day. Towards noon the Farmer and his son came into the field. "The grain is so ripe that it is all falling down and going to waste and since neither our friends nor our kinsfolk will help us, we must do the work ourselves. Let us go home and get everything ready, so that we can begin before sunrise in the morning." The old Lark came home quite early that day, and the little Larks told her what they had heard. "Now, indeed, it is time for us to be off," she said. "Shake your wings and get ready to fly; for when a man makes up his mind to do a thing himself, it is pretty sure to be done."
Answer each question.
1. Where was the nest of the Larks and how many young Larks were there? 2. What did the mother Lark ask the young ones to do? 3. Were the young Larks frightened and what they said to their mother? 4. What did the Mother Lark reply? 6. Why did the farmer depress and what did he say to his son? 6. What did the mother Lark say to the little Larks? Name: Date:
Grade 5 Reading Comprehension Worksheet
Bird Legs Nelson By Joyce Hansen
Read the story. Then answer the questions. As Nelson walked to Queensbridge Middle School he vowed that that he’d put an end to the torment. Big Reggie, known as Big, was the tormentor in school; he had a big mouth also. With Nelson, it started when Big saw him in gym class wearing shorts. “What’s your name? Bird Legs Nelson.” The name stuck to Bird Legs by popular demand. The bell rang, and the boys headed for the gym. They quickly changed into their gym shorts and Nelson knew that the insult was on its way when Big looked him. “Hey, Bird Legs, I know why your head’s so big and your legs so skinny,” Big fired first. Nelson walked out of the locker room into the gym without saying a word. Nelson was a superb basketball player. He’d practiced his bank shots and could bounce the ball off the backboard at an angle that made the ball drop right into the basket. “I want to go on the other team, coach,” he told the gym teacher. Nelson played like a champion. After the game, the teacher locked the door. One of the players realized, “Hey, we’re locked out here in the school yard,” he said. Nelson saw a space though between the locked gates and called the others. He easily slipped through the opening. Big squeezed through the opening too, but he got stuck. “Hey, man, get me some help.” Tears rolled down Big’s face. Nelson waved goodbye. “Lose some weight.” Nelson stopped then gave one, last hard push and Big was free. Big rubbed his leg and limped to the back door. Nelson owned the name, Bird Legs. When he was on the basketball court during games kids from his school yelled, Go, Bird Legs! Go Bird Legs!
