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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Summer Snapshots
Celebrate the end of summer with this fun back-to-school activity.
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Wheely Wonderful Words – Overused Adjectives
Banish overused adjectives with a handy adjective-synonym word wheel!
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Morning Message Slide Templates - Days of the Week
Start the day off right with this set of editable days of the week PowerPoint slides for a morning message or meeting.
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Back to School Today! Poem for Kids
Ease back-to-school jitters and launch your students into a love of poetry with a short poem for kids written just for the first day of school!
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Coordinate Plane Anchor Chart
Display this coordinate plane anchor chart in your classroom when introducing your students to coordinate grids and ordered pairs.
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Biography Anchor Chart with Annotations
Use this biography anchor chart to introduce your students to the structure and language features of biography writing through an annotated example.
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Writing With Alliteration Worksheet
Identify and create alliteration patterns in texts.
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Mini-Mystery – Who Stole the Cookie?
A fun, logic puzzle activity where students read clues to solve a mystery.
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Make Your Own Paper Fortune Teller Template
Make paper fortune tellers with this multi-use template for teachers and students.
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Pattern to Picture Activity
A fun art activity to experiment with the use of line and pattern.
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Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages Vocabulary Poster
A poster to help students learn the vocabulary associated with fractions, decimals, and percentages.
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Multiplication and Division Minute Math Booklet
Warm-up (or assess) with this 10-page booklet of multiplication and division drills.
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What's the Connection? Worksheet
Use this reading skills worksheet to help your students learn about the types of text connections: text-to-text, text-to-self and text-to-world.
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Visual Daily Schedule for At-Home Learning
Help your students track their daily schedule during at-home learning with this template.
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Sprinkle Kindness - Bulletin Board Set
Get your students reflecting on ways to show kindness with this interactive bulletin board!
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Number Talks - Measurement Conversion Task Cards
Build number sense skills with this set of 40 task cards.
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Text Features Flashcards
Teach students the definitions of text features such as headings, sidebars, captions and many more with this set of flashcards for elementary students.
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Number Talks - Number Pairs Task Cards
Build number sense skills with this set of 26 task cards.
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Behavior Reflection Sheet – Upper Grades
Get your students to reflect on their behaviors with this reflection worksheet.
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Cursive Alphabet Chart - Printable Cursive Practice Sheets
A set of 6 sheets to practice writing letters in cursive.
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New Year's Pop-Up Card
Ring in the new year in your classroom with this engaging 3-D cityscape craft activity for students.
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Color Me Carefully – Geometric Animals
Hone in on your students' speaking and listening skills with this barrier activity.
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Place Value Work Mat
Practice place value concepts with this work mat for students.
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Geography Flip Book
A flip book to use when learning about geography.
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Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Worksheets
Use these fractions, decimals and percentages worksheets in your upper elementary classroom for independent practice or as an assessment activity.
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Grammar Toss Active Game
An active game that allows students to test and build their knowledge of words and parts of speech.
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Editable Morning Meeting Slides
Start your day off right with this set of 9 editable Morning Meeting slides.
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Sensory Chart Graphic Organizer
A graphic organizer for students to use when categorizing sensory details.
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Adverb Crossword – Worksheet
A crossword for students to review different adverbs.
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Money – Word Wall Template
A set of money-themed word wall cards.
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Sticky Notes Template – To-Do Lists
Create custom to-do list sticky notes with this template.
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This Is Your Teacher – Template
Introduce yourself to your students during Meet the Teacher or on the first day of school with this fun template.