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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Pine Trees Page Border
A page border with pine trees.
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Farm Yard - Desk Name Tags
Farm yard themed desk name tags for your students’ desks.
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Love Heart Waterfall Card
Create a lovely heart waterfall greeting card for your students to give to someone special.
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Science Experiment - Shine Bright, Electric Light!
A science experiment that investigates how changes to electrical circuits affects their components.
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Desk Name Tags - Playdough
Playdough themed desk name tags for your students’ desks.
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Computational Thinking Poster
A poster showing the definition and an example of computational thinking.
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Prototype Poster
A poster showing the definition and an example of a prototype.
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Road Trip Activity Book Cover Page
Create a fun activity book that will keep your children occupied for hours!
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Teal Chevron - Desk Name Tags
Teal chevrons themed desk name tags for your students’ desks.
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Elements of Art Poster Pack
An Elements of Art poster pack with eight posters, each explaining each of the visual art elements.
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Circuit Diagrams Worksheet
A worksheet that explores how to read and write circuit diagrams.
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Opinion Texts Sequencing Activity
3 jumbled opinion texts for students to sequence in the correct order.
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Adding and Subtracting Fractions Worksheets
Use these adding and subtracting fractions worksheets to enable your students to practice this important skill.
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Travel Around the World - Desk Name Tags
Around the world themed desk name tags for your students’ desks.
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Technology - Vocabulary Themed Title Page and Personal Vocabulary Sheet
Technology vocabulary themed title page and vocabulary template.
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Learning Detectives - Desk Name Tags
Learning detectives themed desk name tags for your students’ desks.
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Black and White Starburst - Name Tags
Desk name tags in a starburst theme.
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Technology - Plant and Animal Themed Title Page and Personal Vocabulary Sheet
Plant and animal themed title page and vocabulary template to use when learning about technology content vocabulary.
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Bright Chevron - Desk Name Tags
Bright chevron themed desk name tags for your students’ desks.
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Desk Name Tags - Giraffe
Giraffe themed desk name tags for your students’ desks.
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Technology - Hardware Themed Title Page and Personal Vocabulary Sheet
Hardware themed title page and vocabulary template to use when learning about technology content vocabulary.
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Journalism and News - Desk Name Tags
Journalism and news-themed desk name tags for your students’ desks.
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Improving Opinion Texts Worksheets
3 pieces of text for students to rewrite in order to make them more persuasive.
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Pastel Flags - Desk Name Tags
Pastel flags themed desk name tags for your students’ desks.
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Owls - Desk Name Tags
Owl ready to learn themed desk name tags for your students’ desks.
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Desk Name Tags Gray Spots
Decorative spot pattern desk name tag.
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Technology - Coding Themed Title Page and Personal Vocabulary Sheet
Coding themed title page and vocabulary template to use when learning about technology content vocabulary.
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Squiggles Pattern - Desk Name Tags
Squiggles patterned desk name tags for your students’ desks.
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Be the Good in Someone's Day - Motivational Poster
Brighten up your classroom with this motivational poster.
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Champions - Desk Name Tags
Champions themed desk name tags for your students’ desks.
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Time to Read - Desk Name Tags
Time to read themed desk name tags for your students’ desks.
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Biography Writing Template Pack
Download this biography writing template pack to help students structure engaging biographies with differentiated layouts suited for various writing projects.