Henry Ford Reading Comprehension Worksheet - 5th Grade printable pdf download

Henry Ford Reading Comprehension Worksheet - 5th Grade

Grade 5 Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Read the passage. Then answer each question.

HENRY FORD

Henry Ford is famous for making cars easier for most people to buy. He did

this by producing the cars using an assembly line.

Henry Ford was born in 1863 in Michigan. He had 4 siblings, and his family

owned a farm. He worked on the farm when he was young, but he soon

discovered that he loved taking things apart to see how they worked, then

putting them back together again. He worked on watches a lot, and ended

up helping many people fix their watches. In 1879, when he was 16 years

old, he moved to Detroit to start working with machines, though he did

come home and work on the farm a little, too.

Ford got married to Clara Bryant in 1888, and worked

on a sawmill. He eventually became an engineer. Ford

worked for the Edison Illuminating Company and even

got to meet Thomas Edison! Edison encouraged him

to keep working on his plans for his horseless

carriage, powered by a motor. Ford’s gasoline-

powered horseless carriage was called the

Quadricycle.

He sold the Quadricycle and started his own company to continue his work

making vehicles. He did not stay with the first company for very many

years, but eventually started the Ford Motor Company. He spent many

years developing cars, which were made only a few at a time.

Ford was not the first person to create a car, but he was the one who

began to make them accessible to a lot of people in the United States. His

“Model T” car, released in 1908, was easy to drive and to repair, which

made many people want one. He needed to make a lot of cars very quickly.

His company, Ford Motor Company, hired skilled workers to work on an

assembly line. The car would move through the line, and each worker had

a job along the line. One worker might put on the steering wheel, while at a

different spot on the line, another worker put on tires. Every Model T was

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Henry Ford Reading Comprehension Worksheet - 5th Grade