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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Artistic Movements Teaching Presentation – Cubism
A 44-slide editable PowerPoint template exploring the famous artists and signature artistic techniques of the Cubist movement.
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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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Decimal War Card Game
Get your students comparing decimals with this fun card game for two players.
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Number Talks - Dividing with Unit Fractions Task Cards
Build fractional reasoning with this set of 24 task cards.
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Novel Study Worksheet Pack
Download this set of novel study worksheets that can be used with any text to support your students in exploring characters and events in literature.
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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 - Decimal Representation Task Cards
Explore representations of decimals with your students using this set of 28 number talks 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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Designing for Depth Drawing Templates
A fun art activity to explore the creation of depth in two-dimensional work.
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Literary Genre Flash Cards
Practice identifying the different literary genres and their matching definitions with this set of 16 flash cards.
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Past, Present, and Future Simple Tense Verbs Worksheet
Practice identifying past, present, and future tense verbs with this ad-lib style worksheet.
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Cursive Practice - Sentences
A set of 6 sheets to practice writing sentences in cursive.
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Artistic Movements PowerPoint – The Renaissance
A 48-slide editable PowerPoint template exploring the famous artists and signature artistic techniques of the Renaissance.
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Informational Text Planner - Music
An informational text planning template focusing on a musical act.
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Argumentative Essays PowerPoint Presentation
Teach your students the basics of what makes a good argumentative essay through this downloadable PowerPoint presentation.
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Onomatopoeia Poster
A poster providing a definition and examples of onomatopoeia.
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Roll to Create a Superhero Comic
A fun, hands-on activity using a die and a chart to create a comic strip story.
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If I Met MLK
Describe your ideal meeting with civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. in this reflective MLK writing activity.
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Fill the Grid Active Game
An active game that allows students to practice their multiplication facts.
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Plumping It Up Activity
A fun art activity to explore form in a two-dimensional work.
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Number of Days in a Row That I Have Read at Home! - Home Reading Progress Tracker
Monitor and record good home reading habits with this goal tracker sheet.
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Musical Instrument Bingo Game
A set of bingo cards using musical instruments.
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Read Across America Tracker
Download a printable book-reading tracker to use for Read Across America Day or Read Across America Week.
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Forms of Energy Poster
A poster to display in the classroom that shows different forms of energy.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Fakebook Worksheet
Design a social media profile for civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. in this creative writing activity.
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Blank Letter and Number Cutouts
A set of printable bulletin board letters and numbers to use when decorating your classroom.
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Sensory Chart Graphic Organizer
A graphic organizer for students to use when categorizing sensory details.
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My Ideal World – Writing Template
A template for students to use when writing about their ideal world.
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Interview a Classmate - First Day of School Activity
Help your students learn more about their new classmates (even if they have been together for the last 5 years) with this fun speaking and listening activity!
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Student Interest Survey - Upper Grades
Learn your students' interests on Day 1 of a new school year with this student interest survey for the upper grades.
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Sample Behavior Goals
Use this list of 20 behavior goals to help when creating your students' behavior trackers.
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5 W's and 1 H Graphic Organizer - Landscape
A blank 5 W’s and 1 H graphic organizer to use when planning a piece of writing text.