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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6-Digit Number of the Day Worksheet
A 6-digit place value worksheet to represent the number of the day in different ways.
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Frayer Model for Building Vocabulary Activity
Work on your students' vocabulary development with this Frayer Model template.
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Identifying Descriptive and Figurative Language - Worksheets
A set of 3 worksheets to help your students identify descriptive and figurative language in narrative texts.
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Back-to-School Checklist for Teachers
Prepare for a new school year with a printable Back to School Checklist.
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Fraction, Percentage and Decimal Circles
A set of fraction, decimal, and percentage circles to use with your students when teaching equivalency.
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Write a Short Story – Overcoming Obstacles
Get your students analysing and writing overcoming obstacles short stories with this engaging and fully scaffolded writing project booklet.
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Finding Word Meaning In Context - Word Detective Worksheet
A teaching resource to help teach your students how to find word meaning in context.
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Suffix Worksheet: -able
Transform your students’ vocabulary skills with our skill-building suffix worksheet, featuring the powerful “-able” suffix
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Everyday Grammar Parts of Speech Warm-Ups – Grades 5 and 6
A 39-slide editable PowerPoint to use when reviewing parts of speech with your students.
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Zip Zap Zoom! Active Game
A whole class active game that encourages concentration and listening skills.
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Information Text Fact Files and Scaffolding Sheet
Use this set of informational writing prompts to support your students in writing a detailed and well-structured factual report.
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Fiction and Non-Fiction Cloze Activities
A set of 7 fiction and non-fiction cloze worksheets with answer sheets.
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Cause and Effect - Sentence Sort Worksheet
A worksheet and answer sheet to use when teaching students the cause and effect comprehension strategy.
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Parts of a Number Sentence - Multiplication and Division
A set of 4 posters explaining the numbers involved a multiplication and division number sentence.
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In This Class, Mistakes Are Expected — Printable Classroom Motivational Poster
Add a printable "In This Class, Mistakes Are Expected" poster to your classroom to foster a positive classroom environment.
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Classroom Morning Routine and Agenda Slides
Use these cute, simple Google Slides morning routine slides to display important information for the day.
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The Star-Spangled Banner Poster
A poster to display in the classroom with the words of the Star-Spangled Banner.
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Readers' Theater Script - Foiled Robbery
A script which can be used during readers' theater or Drama sessions, aimed at students 8 years and over.
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Describe That Decimal Worksheet
Explore the place value of decimals with this versatile one-page printable worksheet.
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Compare and Order Decimals – 5th Grade Math Worksheet
Build decimal place value understanding with a printable worksheet for comparing and ordering decimals.
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Grammar and Punctuation Checklist Bookmarks
Use these grammar and punctuation checklist bookmarks to support your students in editing their writing.
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Readers' Theater Script - Creepy Cat Club
A script which can be used during readers' theater or Drama sessions, aimed at students in 4th grade or higher.
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Readers' Theater Script - Santa Needs to Share
A script that can be used in reading or theater class around the holidays.
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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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Four Types of Sentences Poster Collection - Primary and Intermediate
Display these posters highlighting the four types of sentences and teach your students to use varied sentence types in their writing.
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Self-Portrait Template
Use a printable self portrait template to get to know your students.
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Author's Purpose - Sorting Worksheet
A teaching resource to help teach your students about author's purpose.
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Resilience Posters
Teach students the meaning of resilience with these beautifully designed resilience posters for your elementary school classroom.
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Visual Art Elements Poster
A poster that visually explains the seven visual art elements.
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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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The Bean Game
A fun active game to play at any time.
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2D and 3D Shapes Crossword with Solution
A crossword with clues for both 2D and 3D shapes.