Class 5 Reading Passage on The Golden Touch
Class 5 Reading Passage on The Golden Touch
Gold and Gratitude: Reading Comprehension for Class 5
This Grade 5 reading comprehension worksheet, The Golden Touch, helps learners understand the value of love and kindness over material wealth. Through the story of King Midas, students explore how greed can lead to loss and how gratitude brings true happiness. The worksheet strengthens comprehension, reasoning, and moral interpretation skills while improving vocabulary and understanding of cause and effect.
Learners identify main ideas, connect events, and reflect on the story’s deeper message about valuing relationships more than riches.
Why Reading Comprehension Matters in Grammar?
Reading comprehension improves thinking and moral clarity. For Grade 5 learners, this topic is essential because:
1. It helps children differentiate between desire and real happiness.
2. It builds logical thinking and empathy through story reading.
3. It improves contextual vocabulary and paragraph understanding.
4. It nurtures appreciation for kindness and contentment.
What’s Inside This Worksheet?
This worksheet includes engaging activities that build comprehension and moral reflection:
🧠 Exercise 1 – Multiple Choice Questions
Students select correct answers based on key story events and lessons learned.
✏️ Exercise 2 – Short Answer Questions
Learners describe actions, choices, and realizations of the main character.
📋 Exercise 3 – Reflective Questions
Students connect the moral with real-life values and find synonyms for enriched vocabulary.
✅ Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)
Exercise 1 – Choose the Correct Option
1. c) To have a lot of gold
2. a) He could not eat or hug his daughter
3. d) Greed brings sorrow
Exercise 2 – Short Answers
1. The fairy granted him the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
2. Because he could not eat or touch his daughter without turning them to gold.
3. He understood that love and kindness are more valuable than wealth.
Exercise 3 – Reflective Answers
1. It teaches that greed leads to unhappiness and loss.
2. His loss taught him to value love over wealth.
3. Because love brings joy that gold never can.
4. Synonym of "riches": Wealth
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Frequently Asked Questions
By encouraging children to notice how choices influenced emotions, regret, and growth.
Students learn to identify main ideas and the lesson behind events.
Ask children what the character learned and why it matters.
