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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Narrative Text Structure - PowerPoint
A 20-slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching your students about the text structure and language features of narrative texts.
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Write a Short Story – The Discovery or Invention
Get your students analyzing and writing an invention story with this engaging and fully scaffolded writing project booklet.
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Human Histories: Amazing Achievements - Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet paired with a biographical text about four humans who have achieved great things.
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Penguins – Tray Labels
Printable penguin-themed tray labels to use in your classroom.
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Reflective Thinking Sentence Starter Posters
Twenty-four posters with reflective sentence starters.
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Penguins – Weekly Task Chart
Printable penguin-themed weekly task chart to use in a teacher planner or on a wall in your classroom.
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Penguins – Weekly Timetable
Printable penguin-themed weekly timetable to use in a teacher planner or hung on a bulletin board or dry-erase board in your classroom.
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Division Facts Master
Help your students track their progress in mastering division facts with this data template.
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Penguins – Welcome Sign and Name Tags
Welcome your students to their classroom with this decorative penguin-themed sign.
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Multiplication Facts Master
Help your students track their progress in mastering multiplication facts with this template.
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Identifying Descriptive and Figurative Language - Worksheets
A set of 3 worksheets to help your students identify descriptive and figurative language in narrative texts.
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Penguins – Word Wall Template
A set of penguin-themed word wall cards.
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Customary Conversion Dominoes
A domino activity to practice customary conversions
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Data Vocabulary Poster
A poster that explains the concept of data and lists associated vocabulary.
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Leadership Qualities - Poster Pack
Explore the qualities embodied by a good leader with this set of 9 posters.
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Writing Prompt Jar – Cut and Assemble Kit
A set of labels and prompts to create a writing prompt jar.
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The Firefighter Story – International Women's Day
A story and worksheet that explores issues regarding female gender stereotypes.
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Back-to-School Checklist for Teachers
Prepare for a new school year with a printable Back to School Checklist.
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The Olympic Games Display Banner
A colorful display banner to hang in your classroom or at an Olympic-themed school event.
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Olympic Torch – Craft Activity
A printable Olympic torch craft activity template.
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The Olympic Games – Letters and Numbers Pennant Banner
An Olympic Games-themed pennant banner to create banners or titles for displays.
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Character Profile Flip Book – Intermediate Grades
Use this flip book template with your upper elementary students when teaching about the features of literary characters.
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Color Quest: Brainstorming Map
A template to use with your students when brainstorming for a narrative text.
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10 Expectations for Virtual Learning – Poster
A poster showing 10 expectations for students during remote learning.
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Black History Profile Poster Pack for the Classroom
Print a Black History poster pack for the classroom, to introduce your students to revered Black icons and the impacts their contributions have made to American history.
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Classroom Hand Signals - Poster Collection
Strengthen classroom management and cut down on classroom interruptions with a set of classroom hand signal posters.
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Stegosaurus Mindful Coloring Sheet
A stegosaurus mindful coloring sheet.
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Luck of the Draw-ing Prompts
A set of 35 drawing prompt cards.
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Rhino Mindful Coloring Sheet
A rhino mindful coloring sheet.
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Black History Profile - Picture Match Activity
Review and complete the defining details of 6 revered Black icons and match their images with each completed biography.
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Student Information Sheet
Learn more about your new students by sending home a survey for their parents/guardians to complete.
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A Thinker Like Me Poem - Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet paired with a poem about a thinker.