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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Salt Water Density Experiment
A hands-on science experiment about salt water density.
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Please and Thank You Signs - Individual Posters
Posters to remind your students to use their manners.
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Comprehension Paper Fortune Teller
A fun reading comprehension strategy activity for students to use after reading a text.
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Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint - Questioning
A 15 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of questioning.
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Group Activity Wheel Page Borders – 8 Colors
A set of 6 generic color/pattern group borders to use with your class.
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Writing a Speech Poster
A poster highlighting the main parts to a speech.
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Robots - Display Banner
A robot themed banner.
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Math Group Activity Shapes Borders – 8 Shapes/Colors
A set of 8 shape/color geometry themed group borders to use with your class.
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The Problem is Not the Problem - Motivational Poster
Brighten up your classroom with this motivational poster.
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Accidental Inventions - Printable Posters and Reading Passages
Discover some of the world’s most famous (and accidental) inventions with a set of printable invention posters.
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Types of Graphs Posters
This colorful and easy-to-digest visual display shows students the varying data displays they will encounter in their elementary math lessons.
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Independence Day Coloring Sheets
Five coloring sheets to use on Independence Day.
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Read and Roll - Comprehension Dice Game
A fun reading comprehension game to play after reading a fictional text.
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The Human Skeletal System Game
A game to consolidate students’ understanding of some of the main bones in the human body.
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Night Sky - Letter, Number And Punctuation Sets
Night sky themed letters that can be customized for personalized signs in your classroom.
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Animals - Letter, Number and Punctuation Sets
Animal letters that can be customized for personalized signs in your classroom.
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Before, During and After Reading Non-Fiction Questions - Dice
5 different versions of dice to use when asking questions before, during and after reading.
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Farm Yard - Display Banner
A farm yard themed banner.
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Red Stripes - Letter, Number and Punctuation Sets
Red striped letters that can be customized for personalized signs in your classroom.
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Chinese Theme - Letter, Number and Punctuation Sets
Chinese themed letters that can be customized for personalized signs in your classroom.
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In the Shadows Worksheet
A worksheet that explores the difference between shadows.
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Before, During and After Reading Non-Fiction Questions - Wheel
5 different versions of wheels to use when asking questions before, during and after reading.
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Electricity Cut-Outs
A set of cut-outs to use in your classroom when teaching an electricity unit.
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"Choose It" – Book Selection Bookmarks
A bookmark that is a handy guide for students to use when choosing books to read.
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Purple Slab - Letter, Number and Punctuation Sets
Purple Slab letters that can be customized for personalized signs in your classroom.
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Cartoon Green - Letter, Number and Punctuation Sets
Green cartoon letters that can be customized for personalized signs in your classroom.
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Punctuation Tracking Chart Monster Theme
A classroom display that allows students to see their progress toward using correct punctuation in their sentences.
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Before, During, and After Reading Nonfiction – Question Prompts
Question prompts and a worksheet to use when asking questions before, during, and after reading.
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Colorful Chameleon Template
A blank chameleon template to practice the art elements of color, pattern, and texture.
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Readers' Theater Script - Santa Needs to Share
A script that can be used in reading or theater class around the holidays.
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Colorful Chameleon Art Activity
An activity perfect for exploring the art elements of color, texture, and pattern.
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Travel Around the World - Display Banner
A world travel-themed banner.