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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Printable Halloween Decorations
Use our printable Halloween Decorations to decorate your walls, hallway, or bulletin board to create a festive Halloween vibe in your classroom.
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Life is a Puzzle, Solve it Drug Free Coloring Sheets
Blend art and drug awareness education with our ‘Life is a Puzzle, Solve It Drug Free! coloring pages for Red Ribbon Week.
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Stand Up, Sit Down Game - 'Sit Down If' Icebreaker
Have your students giggling on day 1 with this Stand Up, Sit Down Game as a classroom icebreaker.
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All About Me Poster Template
Use this All About Me Poster Template as a back to school activity with your students.
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All About Me Pennant Banner
Use this student profile all about me pennant flag template as an activity at the beginning of the year.
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Blank Multiple Choice PowerPoint - Google Slides Trivia Template
Create an interactive warm-up, review, or assessment activity for any subject area with this Google Slides Trivia Template.
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Collecting and Representing Data Worksheet Set
Download our collecting and representing data worksheet set to get your students collecting, organizing, and displaying data.
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Google Sheets Teacher Grade Book
Keep tabs on student grades with a Google Sheets digital gradebook.
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Positive Character Traits - Motivational Bulletin Board
Set an optimistic tone and promote positivity with a Just Be…One Word Motivational Bulletin board.
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Adventure Story Starter Task Cards
Print and use these Adventure Story Starter Task Cards to inspire adventurous narrative writings.
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Back to School Night Sign In Sheet Templates
Use our back-to-school night sign-in sheet templates to track parent contacts, note student transportation, and parent volunteers.
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Adding Unlike Fractions Escape Room – The Lost Time Traveler
Have your super-sleuth students solve this fractions escape room to find out the location of the lost time traveler!
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Sentence Cohesion Worksheet Pack
Use this sentence cohesion worksheet pack to teach your students about how to write clear sentences containing strongly connected ideas.
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Literary Context Task Cards
Explore literary context using this set of 36 engaging task cards designed to help students analyze the historical, social and cultural influences behind the texts they read.
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Formal vs Informal Language Worksheet Pack
Download this formal vs informal language worksheet pack to help students strengthen their understanding of language in real-world contexts.
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Comma After Introductory Phrase Worksheets
Support students to master the comma after introductory phrase rule with this set of engaging worksheets, perfect for punctuation lessons.
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Summer Word Search Puzzle
Search and spell your way into summer break with a fun Summer Word Search!
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Isometric Paper Templates - Dotted/Lined
Isometric Paper - Dotted Paper Printable
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Listening-Drawing Activity Pack
Grab a Listening-Drawing Activity pack to fill in classroom downtime and help your students boost their listening skills.
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Poetry Analysis Worksheet Pack
Analyze and comprehend a variety of poetry types with these printable poetry analysis worksheets.
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Spell and Score - Word Tile Game for Kids
Play ‘Spell-and-Score’, an exciting Word Tile Spelling Game to help your students practice spelling words.
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Blank Input Output Tables Template Set
Grab this blank input output tables template set to create a wide variety of function table activities that will have your students thinking algebraically.
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Self-Monitoring Reading Activities
Explore how to monitor reading while reading with this set of Self-Monitoring Reading Activities task cards.
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Author's Purpose Anchor Chart Set
Display this set of Author’s Purpose Pie posters to help students remember the various reasons authors write.
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Commas With Subordinate Clauses Worksheet
Use a Commas With Subordinate Clauses Worksheet to help your students practice comma placement in complex sentences.
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The Unsinkable Titanic - Weekly Paragraph and Sentence Combining + Answer Key
Practice combining simple sentences to form compound and complex sentences with the Unsinkable Titanic Weekly Paragraphs and Sentence Combining worksheets & answer key.
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Bloom's Taxonomy Reading Comprehension Task Cards
Deepen your students' reading comprehension with a set of reading task cards based on Bloom's taxonomy.
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Worksheets to Practice Volume
Provide your students with these worksheets to practice volume, helping them master finding the volume of cubes, rectangular prisms, and triangular prisms.
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Fix-Up Strategies in Reading Flipbook
Explore different fix up strategies with your students using this Fix Up Strategies in Reading Flipbook template.
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Types of Sentences Posters
Display a set of types of sentences posters to help your students discover various types of sentences.
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Word Sleuth - Context Clues Game
Play ‘Word Sleuth’, a context clues game for upper elementary students to help improve vocabulary skills.
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Comma Llama - Comma Rules Anchor Chart
Make learning comma rules engaging and memorable with our Comma Llama - Comma Rules Anchor Chart!