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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Multiplication - Border Trimmers
Brighten up your cork boards with these Multiplication Pattern Cork Board Borders.
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Pine Trees - Border Trimmers
Brighten up your bulletin boards for Christmas with pine tree bulletin board borders.
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Spelling Sentence Challenge Worksheet
A teaching resource to help consolidate their current spelling program and grammar use.
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Generic Calendar Template - Stars
A generic calendar template to help remind you of important dates and events.
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Generic Calendar Template - Shapes & Squiggles
A generic calendar template to help remind you of important dates and events.
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Generic Calendar Template - Owls
A generic calendar template to help remind you of important dates and events.
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Generic Calendar Template - Monsters
A generic calendar template to help remind you of important dates and events.
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Generic Calendar Template - Calculators
A generic calendar template to help remind you of important dates and events.
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Generic Calendar Template - Orange Shapes
A generic calendar template to help remind you of important dates and events.
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We're Aiming High Banner
A classroom display banner to use on your bump it up display.
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Pirate Word Wall Vocabulary - White Flag
57 pirate related vocabulary cards for a word wall.
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Owl Page Border - Landscape
Owl themed page border to be used as a decorative poster in your classroom or for a unit about owls.
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Refracting Light Task Cards
A set of 5 Task Cards with activities that allow students to observe the refraction of light.
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Poetry Resource Folder Cover and Dividers
Use this collection of templates to organize your classroom poetry resources folder.
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Ancient Rome - Word Wall Vocabulary
A set of 20 Ancient Rome themed vocabulary word wall cards.
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Attendance Record Chart BW
A chart to track the attendance of your students.
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Desk Name Tags – Sparkles
A set of sparkle themed desk name tags for the classroom.
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Attendance Record Chart
A chart to track the attendance of your students.
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Desk Name Tags – Purple Lines
A set of purple themed desk name tags for the classroom.
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Parts of an Animal Cell - Blank
Use this worksheet to highlight the different parts of an animal cell.
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Desk Name Tags – Orange Lines
A set of orange themed desk name tags for the classroom.
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Parts of an Animal Cell Poster BW
Use this poster to highlight the different parts of an animal cell.
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Desk Name Tags – Green Lines
A set of green themed desk name tags for the classroom.
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How We Grow and Change - Sequencing Activity
A sequencing activity to use when learning about growth and change.
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Desk Name Tags – Aqua Lines
A set of aqua themed desk name tags for the classroom.
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Materials Poster
A poster showing the definition and an example of materials.
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Desk Name Tags – Egg Pattern
An egg pattern themed set of desk name tags for the classroom.
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Functionality Poster
A poster showing the definition and an example of functionality.
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If You Cannot Think of Great Ideas... - Motivational Poster
Brighten up your classroom with this motivational poster.
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Summit of Success Goal Mountain – Class Progress Tracker
Track student progress in your classroom with this mountain-themed bulletin board or wall display.
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Visual Art Elements Poster
A poster that visually explains the seven visual art elements.
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Icebreaker Game Cards
Help your students get to know each other with this set of 20 icebreaker games.