Digital Distance

This worksheet supports students in Grades 5 and 6 as they read a nonfiction passage exploring the contrast between digital connectedness and emotional loneliness. Through five carefully designed multiple-choice questions, learners practice informational text comprehension, inference, vocabulary interpretation, tone analysis, and evidence-based reasoning while examining a real-world topic that connects literacy skills with social-emotional understanding.

Learning Goals

• Informational Text Comprehension (Grades 5-6): Identify the central idea and key supporting details in a nonfiction passage.
• Inference and Evidence-Based Reasoning: Draw conclusions about the author’s message using clues and examples from the text.
• Vocabulary in Context: Interpret figurative and academic language related to emotions and technology.
• Author’s Purpose and Tone: Analyze how the author’s word choice and perspective shape meaning and mood.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed to blend reading comprehension with real-world, relevant themes.
• Multiple-Choice Assessment Format: Supports test-style practice and efficient skill checks.
• Critical Thinking Focus: Encourages students to evaluate ideas, not just recall facts.
• SEL Integration: Prompts reflection on emotional well-being and meaningful connection in modern life.

This printable worksheet helps students strengthen higher-level reading skills while thinking critically about how technology influences emotions and relationships. By analyzing tone, vocabulary, and author’s purpose in a nonfiction context, learners build comprehension, inference skills, and social-emotional insight. It is a no-prep resource well suited for both classroom and homeschool language arts instruction, supporting thoughtful reading and real-world literacy connections.

Social-Emotional Learning – Understanding Modern Feelings of Isolation

This worksheet is part of our Alone vs. Lonely Worksheets collection.