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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Multiplying by 0 - Poster
A poster showing the multiplication facts of 0.
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Multiplication Facts 0–12 - Posters
A set of posters showing the multiplication facts for 0–12.
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Finding Word Meaning In Context - Word Detective Worksheet
A teaching resource to help teach your students how to find word meaning in context.
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Field Notes – Vacation Activity Pack
Keep children inspired and entertained with this mini nature journal pack.
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Woodlands Themed Field Notes Vacation Activity Pack
Over 45 pages of woodlands themed worksheets, activities and scrapbooking pages for the vacation break.
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Viking Helmet and Shield Worksheets
A set of worksheets for students to design their own Viking helmet and shield.
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Desk Name Tags – Whales
Desk name tags featuring whales.
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Volume Investigation - Creating the Land of Cubes
A mathematics investigation involving volume, embedded in a real-world context.
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Desk Name Tags – Turtles
Desk name tags featuring turtles.
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Desk Name Tags – Tasmanian Tigers
Desk name tags featuring Tasmanian tigers.
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Desk Name Tags Tigers
Desk name tags featuring tigers.
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Desk Name Tags Tasmanian Devils
Desk name tags featuring Tasmanian devils.
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Desk Name Tags Rhinoceros
Desk name tags featuring rhinoceros.
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Learning Detectives - Happy Birthday Chart
Display all of your students' birthdays on this learning detectives themed classroom birthday chart.
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Desk Name Tags Pandas
Desk name tags featuring pandas.
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Desk Name Tags Orangutans
Desk name tags featuring orangutans.
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Desk Name Tags Numbats
Desk name tags featuring numbats.
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Everyday Grammar Capitalization and Punctuation Warm-Ups – Grades 5 and 6 Interactive PowerPoint
An engaging 44-slide interactive PowerPoint to use in the upper grades classroom when learning about grammar and punctuation.
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Desk Name Tags Macaws
Desk name tags featuring macaws.
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Desk Name Tags Bilbies
Desk name tags featuring bilbies.
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Desk Name Tags Endangered Animals
Eleven endangered animals desk name tags.
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Desk Name Tags Light Purple Monster
Light Purple monster desk name tag.
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Desk Name Tags Watermelons
Desk name tags featuring watermelons.
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Question Starter Display
A classroom display to encourage questioning in the classroom.
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Desk Name Tags Strawberries
Desk name tags featuring strawberries.
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German Color Blobs
Blobs of color with the names displayed in German.
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Desk Name Tags Oranges
Desk name tags featuring oranges.
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All About Me Booklet for Upper Grades
Learn all about your new students at the beginning of the year with this 'All About Me' booklet.
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Desk Name Tags Grapes
Desk name tags featuring grapes.
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Desk Name Tags Bananas
Desk name tags featuring bananas.
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Easter Word Search
Boost reading and spelling skills with an Easter word search.
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Plain Blue - Birthday Chart
Display all of your students' birthdays on this plain blue-themed classroom birthday chart.