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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Emoji - Desk Name Tags
Emoji themed desk name tags for your students’ desks.
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King Tutankhamun's Death Mask Poster
A poster showing King Tutankhamun's death mask.
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You Can do Anything... - Motivational Poster
Brighten up your classroom with this motivational poster.
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Editable Sub Plan Template
Write your sub plans with ease with this editable Google Slides template.
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Ra - God of the Sun Poster
A poster showing Ra - God of the Sun.
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Classroom Manners Poster
We always use our manners by saying…
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Nefertiti Poster
A poster showing Nefertiti.
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Writing a Narrative - Template
A template to use when planning a narrative text.
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Genius Hour Project Assessment Rubric (Grades 5 and 6)
An assessment rubric for the teacher to assess each student's Genius Hour project.
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Anubis Poster
A poster showing Anubis - God of the Dead.
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What's At Stake Poster
A poster to display in your classroom when teaching students how to build characters for a story.
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Statue of Anubis - God of the Dead Poster
A poster showing the Statue of Anubis - God of the Dead.
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Make Your Own King Tutankhamun Mask
A template to make a King Tutankhamun mask.
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Country Investigation - Worksheet
A recording worksheet for students to use in the classroom when researching different countries and cultures.
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Giraffes - Happy Birthday Chart
Display all of your students' birthdays on this giraffe themed classroom birthday chart.
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Editable Blank Dice
A blank dice to add in content that relates directly to your class.
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Emoji Themed Display Banner
An emoji themed banner.
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Elephants - Display Banner
An elephant themed banner.
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Journalism and News - Happy Birthday Chart
Display all of your students' birthdays on this journalism and news themed classroom birthday chart.
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Circus - Display Banner
A circus themed banner.
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Seven Sensational Story Starters PowerPoint
A 10 slide editable PowerPoint template of story starters to use in narrative writing.
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Terrific Tigers - Display Banner
A terrific tigers themed banner.
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The Star Spangled Banner - National Anthem Poster
Learn the words to The Star Spangled Banner with these National Anthem posters.
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Rainbow - Display Banner
A rainbow themed classroom banner.
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Monster Madness - Display Banner
A monster madness themed banner.
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Inclusion Poster
A beautiful poster to spread the message that inclusion is for ALL.
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The Pledge of Allegiance
Learn the words to The Pledge of Allegiance with this poster.
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Science Experiment - True Colors
A science experiment that explores the perception of color.
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Journalism and News - Title Poster
A poster to use to brighten up your classroom.
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Animals - Display Banner
An animals themed banner.
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Proud Peacocks - Display Banner
A proud peacocks themed banner.
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WALT, WILF, TIB, WINK, WAGOLL, and TILT Posters
A set of 7 posters for ‘We Are Learning To’ (WALT), ‘What I’m Looking For’ (WILF), ‘This Is Because’ (TIB), 'What I Now Know' (WINK), 'What A Good One Looks Like' (WAGOLL), and 'Today I Learned That/To' (TILT).