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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All About Me Time Capsule Worksheet Pack
Use this printable All About Me Time Capsule Worksheet Pack as a fun first day of school activity!
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Boston Tea Party - RACES Writing Strategy Worksheet
Integrate reading, writing, and American history with a worksheet about the Boston Tea Party using the RACES writing strategy for text evidence.
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Australian Animals Mindfulness Bookmarks
Practice mindfulness and keep track of your reading with these Australian Animals Mindfulness Bookmarks!
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Roll It! Operations Game
Use this fun game to practice all four operations and/or order of operations.
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Maps and Globes Writing Center
Blend your Geography and Writing instruction with Maps and Globe Writing prompts for third grade and up.
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Back to School STEM Challenges – Grades 4-6
Integrate STEM activities into your back-to-school plans by guiding students to create a name badge, cantilever, and school mascot.
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Back to School Scatter - Categories Game
Start the school year with a collaborative Back to School Categories game to initiate student introductions.
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Interactive Classroom Layout Maker
Save your time (and your back) by pre-planning your classroom layout and furniture placement with a Google Slides interactive design template.
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Me on the Map - Map Elements Presentation
Teach the components of a map with a map elements teaching presentation.
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Sub Folder - Sub Plans Template Pack
Prepare for sick days ahead of time with a customizable and printable substitute teacher binder template.
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The Pony Express Worksheet- Comprehension Passage
Teach your students how to write a constructed response paragraph and integrate grade level Social studies concepts with a free Pony Express worksheet and ten-question comprehension assessment.
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Improper Fraction Game — Fraction Memory!
Use this improper fraction game to practice matching improper fractions, mixed numbers, and visual representations with this set of 30 match-up cards.
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Idioms Dominoes
Build vocabulary and have fun with idiom games.
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Idioms Go Fish Card Game
Understand the meaning of common idioms with a classroom game of Idioms-Go Fish!
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Point of View Task Cards - Beginner Set
Use these colorful, fun task cards to help your beginning reader identify first, and third-person point of view (POV)
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End-of-Year Memory Flipbook
Remember the school year with an end of the year memory book designed in a flipbook format.
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Dressing Up A Sentence - Interactive or Printable Activity
Encourage students to add more descriptive language into their sentence writing with this activity.
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Looking Back on My Year
Reflect on the school year with this end-of-the-year writing activity.
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Levels of Government Worksheet - Responsibilities of Each Level
Sort the duties of state, local, and national government with a free sorting worksheet.
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Classroom Library Genre Book Labels
Organize your classroom library by genre with these printable illustrated book labels.
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Our Class Got a Compliment! - Class Reward Chart
Motivate your students to keep up the good work with this classroom reward chart.
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Father's Day Card – Mindful Coloring
Practice mindful coloring and create a beautiful handmade card for Father's Day.
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Idioms: What Are They and What Do They Mean? PowerPoint
An editable PowerPoint presentation to use when teaching idioms.
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Explanatory Writing Teaching Slides
Teach explanatory writing with confidence using this comprehensive slide deck that helps students understand the purpose, structure and language features of explanatory essays.
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Adverbs of Frequency Poster
Use this eye-catching poster in your primary classroom when teaching children about adverbs of frequency.
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Koala Mindful Coloring Sheet
A koala mindful coloring sheet.
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Octopus Mindful Coloring Sheet
An octopus mindful coloring sheet.
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Curiosity and Imagination Bookmarks
Spark a love of reading in your students with this set of 4 printable bookmarks.
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My Research Project - Pennant Banner
Create a pennant banner for students to record and display their biography research.
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Customizable Student Affirmation Bookmarks
Celebrate your students and the wonderful classroom community you're building with this set of customizable student affirmation bookmarks.
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What's the Genre? Task Cards
Identify literary genres through a set of 12 task cards with short text passages and multiple-choice questions.
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Presidential Oath of Office - Vocabulary Activity
Learn new vocabulary while studying the Presidential Oath of Office with this differentiated activity.