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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Readers' Theater Script - Muddy Footprint Mystery
A script which can be used during readers' theater or Drama sessions, aimed at students 10 years and over.
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Five Finger Summary - Graphic Organizer
A graphic organizer for students to use to summarize a fiction text.
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Pattern Coloring - Flower
Use colors to create a pattern using this sheet.
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Substitute Teaching Folder Cover and Dividers
A collection of templates to organize your classroom substitute teaching folder.
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Readers' Theater Script - Santa's Big Blunder
A script that can be used in reading or theater class.
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Nets of 3D Shapes
Create a variety of 3D shapes with this comprehensive set of net templates.
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My Ecological Footprint - Reference Sheet
Teach your students about the things we do that affect the Earth with an ecological footprint reference sheet.
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Circuit Diagrams Worksheet
A worksheet that explores how to read and write circuit diagrams.
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Pastel Flags - Desk Name Tags
Pastel flags themed desk name tags for your students’ desks.
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What's Remaining? - Long Division Board Game
A game to play to when learning to solve long division involving remainders.
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The Recycling Process Poster
Show your students the process materials go through when they are recycled with printable recycling posters.
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Character Development – Fakebook Page Worksheet
Use research and creative writing skills to design a social media profile for fiction or nonfiction persons.
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Opinion Text Writing Prompts - Complete Set
A set of 5 opinion writing prompts, covering a variety of topics.
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Opinion Texts Writing Task - City Life is Better Than Country Life
A writing activity to help students construct a detailed and reasoned opinion text.
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Opinion Texts Writing Task - Zoos Are No Place for Animals
A writing activity to help students construct a detailed and reasoned opinion text.
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You're a Star Certificate
Give positive feedback to your students with this You're a Star Certificate.
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Comprehension Strategies – Interactive PowerPoint
An engaging 44 slide interactive PowerPoint to use in the classroom when introducing comprehension strategies.
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Animal Fact File Worksheet
An animal fact file for students to complete when learning about a variety of animals.
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Grammar and Punctuation Assessment Tool - Grade 5
A set of 5 grammar and punctuation assessment tools suited to Grade 5 students.
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Dealing with Bullying Poster
Add this anti-bullying poster for the classroom to your bullying prevention toolkit and teach your students five resilience strategies to respond to bullying behavior.
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Resilience Acrostic Poem Worksheet
Have students write a resilience poem to help them understand the meaning of this crucial social-emotional skill.
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Building Tension in Narrative Writing Teaching Slides
Teach how to build tension in narrative writing with this interactive presentation that explains eight author techniques for creating suspense and excitement in stories.
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Paralympic Sport Posters – Winter
Download these Paralympic winter sports photo posters, featuring powerful real-life images that highlight the skill, determination and spirit of Paralympic athletes.
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Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympics – Mindful Coloring
Bring the excitement of Milano Cortina 2026 into your classroom with three mindful coloring pages designed to help your students celebrate the Winter Paralympic Games.
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Winter Paralympics Word Search – Upper Grades
Build vocabulary related to the Winter Paralympic Games with this engaging word search activity for upper elementary students.
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Printable Easter Bookmarks
Hop into self-selected reading and inspire good reading habits with fun printable Easter bookmarks for kids!
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Printable Spring Bookmarks
Inspire students to read this Spring season with a set of fun (and free) printable Spring Bookmarks.
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Spring Has Sprung Word Search Puzzles
Slide into a Spring with a pair of differentiated ‘Spring Has Sprung’ Word Search Puzzles.
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Turkey Bulletin Board Kit - Thankful For My Little Turkeys
Put up a cute Turkey Bulletin Board to show off how thankful you are for all the little turkeys in your classroom.
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Printable Christmas Banner
Download and print a fun Merry Christmas Banner to decorate your classroom or bulletin board during the Christmas Season.
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What Is Narrative Voice? Teaching Slides
Answer the question “What is narrative voice?” with this engaging slide deck that helps students understand first person, third person limited and third person omniscient narration.
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Comparing Narrator’s Voice Worksheets
Teach how narrator’s voice shapes the reader's experience of texts with this set of worksheets where students compare passages written from different points of view.