5th Grade Teaching Resources
Are you teaching 5th grade this school year? Explore fifth-grade worksheets, vocabulary words, writing prompts, printable activities, downloadable games and so much more!
The expert elementary and middle school teachers of Teach Starter have created digital activities and printable worksheets, graphic organizers and more to help your 5th graders flourish in math, science and social studies, all while significantly improving their grammar and vocabulary.
The Teach Starter teacher team has your back as you build on the foundation of 4th grade and explore pre-algebraic concepts or lead your students as they conduct research for essays. Whether 5th grade is the last (or second-to-last) year of elementary school in your district or the first year of middle school, this teaching resource collection has been built to help you help your students meet either Common Core or state-level standards — or both.
5th Grade Teaching Resources
We have math lessons and activities to help you reinforce complex concepts like exponents, decimals, operations with fractions, volume, and more.
Teach Starter's English language arts lessons will sharpen your 5th graders' reading comprehension and decoding skills to build their confidence in discussing and writing about a variety of texts they'll be exposed to. Plus, you'll find guided learning science projects and lab experiments that let your students get hands-on experience investigating the earth and space, matter, energy, and electricity to name a few.
Use the Learning Areas button below to explore more than 5,000 resources for these topics and more!
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Is It True? Listening Activity
Practice your students' listening skills with this listening activity.
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Student Reading Log Printables
Track your students' at-home reading with this printable reading log.
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Converting Time Units - Task Cards
Practice converting time with a handy set of free Time Unit Conversion Task Cards.
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End of School Year Newspaper Reflection Activity
Spread the news of an amazing year with a printable End-of-School newspaper template.
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Why Plant a Tree? Infographic Analysis Activity & Posters
Teach about Arbor Day or Earth Day with an infographic poster and a cloze note-taking worksheet about the importance of trees in our environment.
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Readers' Theater Script - Creepy Cat Club
A script which can be used during readers' theater or Drama sessions, aimed at students in 4th grade or higher.
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Printable Password Log - Free
Help your students keep track of their computer and website logins with printable Student Password Logs.
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Emotive Language Cloze Passage Worksheet
Get students using emotive language examples in their persuasive essays with this differentiated cloze passage worksheet.
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End of School Year Craft - My Summer Quilt Block Template
Celebrate the end of the year and look forward to summer fun with a printable quilt block collaborative art template.
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End of Year Memories - Printable Mini Book Template
Make an All About Me book with a printable get-to-know-you activity template for kids.
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Surfing into Summer Craft Template
Celebrate the end of the school year and make plans for summertime fun with a printable summer craft activity.
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Memory Jar - End of Year Reflection Craft
Capture all the amazing memories from the school year and place them inside a memory jar with a fun end-of-year craft.
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Finish the Drawing - Worksheets
Get creative and finish the drawings with a set of five art worksheets.
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Fall Color By Part of Speech Worksheet - Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs
Use this color by part of speech worksheet as a fun fall activity with your students.
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End of Year - Build a Board Game Project
Build critical thinking, writing, and reading skills by engaging your students with an end-of-year S.T.E.M activity.
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End of Year Scavenger Hunt
Use your investigation skills to complete this end-of-the-year scavenger hunt.
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The Lost Library Card – Whole Class Escape Game
Use inference and problem-solving skills to decipher the puzzles and uncover the hidden code.
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Mindful Coloring Sheet - Tree
A tree mindful coloring sheet.
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International Women's Day - PowerPoint Presentation
An 11-slide PowerPoint presentation that provides an overview of International Women’s Day.
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Soup, Salad, or Sandwich? Game - Interactive Icebreaker
Play the Soup, Salad, or Sandwich? Game for an exciting Back-to-School Icebreaker activity!
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Nouns, Proper Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs and Conjunctions Posters
Enhance student understanding of the 8 parts of speech with these colorful, informative, and easily-referenced grammar wall posters for the classroom covering nouns, verbs and more!
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Empathy Word Search
Introduce or review vocabulary terms related to empathy with this free word search worksheet.
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Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences Worksheets
Use this set of five grammar worksheets to teach about the structures of simple, compound and complex sentences.
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I Am Thankful For - Sunburst Template
Help your students show how they’re ‘bursting’ with thankfulness using these printable “I am Thankful” for worksheets.
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Free Printable Graph Paper — 1 cm Squares
A piece of 1cm square graph paper to be used in a multitude of ways.
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End of Year 3-D Dodecahedron Memory Project
Record and reflect on the school year with a three-dimensional end-of-year memory craft project.
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End of the Year Gift Tags – S'mores Themed
Make the end of the school year “sweet” with these s’mores themed gift tags.
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End of Year Reflection Task Cards
Reflect on the amazing school year with End-of-Year Reflection Task Cards.
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Getting to Know You T-Shirt
Start the school year off with a bang with this getting-to-know-you activity.
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End of Year Lapbooking Templates
Build reflection into the last days of school with an end-of-year lapbook.
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Roll and Write - Simple and Compound Sentences
Practice writing simple and compound sentences with our Roll and Write activity.
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Design Your Own Book Cover Worksheet
Design a new book cover and summarise a book using this one-page, printable template.