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!
- Plus Plan
Author Study Flip Book – Editable Template
An editable flip book template that covers a range of topics when studying a particular author.
- Free Plan
Celebrating Inspirational Women Inquiry Task
An inquiry task to use in the classroom when learning about inspirational contemporary women.
- Plus Plan
How to Draw for Kids - Teddy Bear
A task card that helps students draw an illustration of a teddy bear!
- Free Plan
Rainforest Maze
A fun, rainforest-themed maze for students to complete.
- Free Plan
How to Draw for Kids - Ninja Girl
A task card that helps students draw an illustration of a ninja girl!
- Free Plan
Mindful Coloring Sheet - Tree
A tree mindful coloring sheet.
- Plus Plan
Perimeter and Area Poster
A poster that explains and compares the concepts of perimeter and area.
- Plus Plan
Home Reading Challenge #3 – Grades 3-6
A set of reading activities that parents can use to educate children remotely or that teachers can send to students working at home when schools are closed.
- Plus Plan
Custom Sticky Notes Template – Days of the Week
Print on 3x3 Post-It notes or sticky notes with a template that makes it a snap!
- Plus Plan
How to Draw for Kids - Ninja Boy
A task card that helps students draw an illustration of a ninja boy!
- Plus Plan
How to Draw for Kids - Monster
Teach your students how to draw a monster with this Halloween directed-drawing activity.
- Plus Plan
Tricks in 60 Ticks Task Cards
A collection of 10 active games that take 60 seconds each!
- Plus Plan
Identifying Forms of Energy Worksheet
A worksheet to practice identifying different forms of energy.
- Plus Plan
End of Year Goal Setting Sheet
Create goals for the upcoming school year with this student template.
- Plus Plan
How to Draw for Kids - Girl
A task card that helps students draw an illustration of a girl.
- Plus Plan
How to Draw for Kids - Boy
A task card that helps students draw an illustration of a boy.
- Plus Plan
While You Were Gone – Substitute Template
Print this "while the teacher was gone" template for your sub to fill out when you are away.
- Plus Plan
Think It or Say It? - Sorting Activity
Practice using a filter when speaking with others with this sorting activity.
- Plus Plan
How to Draw For Kids - Alien
A task card that helps students draw an illustration of an alien!
- Plus Plan
Grade 5 School Closure – Learning From Home Pack #2
A collection of age-appropriate, grade 5 teaching resources and activities for parents to use with their children or teachers to send home with students during school closures.
- Plus Plan
Search and Find – Santa's Sleigh
Santa's sleigh search and find activity.
- Plus Plan
What Causes the Seasons? Informative Text Writing Task
Use this scaffolded writing task to have students write about how seasons change.
- Plus Plan
Today I Learned To (TILT) Poster
A poster to display what students learned that day.
- Plus Plan
Forms of Energy Task Cards
A set of 12 task cards to practice identifying forms of energy found in everyday tasks.
- Plus Plan
Informative Text Writing Task – How Does the Respiratory System Work?
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the informative text type.
- Plus Plan
Sound Devices Sorting Activity
Reinforce sound devices used in text by sorting 16 poetic device cards into their appropriate category.
- Plus Plan
Informative Text Writing Task – How Does a Plane Fly?
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the informative text type.
- Plus Plan
5th Grade Revising and Editing Passages
Use this set of 5th grade revising and editing passages to help your students demonstrate their spelling, punctuation and grammar knowledge.
- Plus Plan
Inspirational Women Profiles Poster Pack
A set of 7 posters profiling inspirational women from around the world.
- Plus Plan
Persuasive Text Worksheet
Revise the key structural elements of the persuasive text type with this informal letter.
- Free Plan
Inspirational Woman Profile: Malala Yousafzai – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension task to use when learning about Malala Yousafzai.
- Plus Plan
Valentine's Day Flip Book Template
A flip book template to use around Valentine's Day.