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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Five Senses Graphic Organizer
A graphic organizer to use when brainstorming sights, sounds, smells, touches, and tastes.
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Cybersafety Poster - Know the Rules
Help your students understand correct online behavior with this cyber safety poster.
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Informative Paragraphs Sequencing Activity
Teach your students about informational text paragraph structure with this hands-on sequencing activity.
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Daily Writing Prompts Calendars - Upper Grades
Inspire your students and encourage them to write regularly with a set of printable Daily Writing Prompts in calendar format!
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Narrative Paragraphs Sequencing Activity
6 jumbled narrative paragraphs for students to sequence in the correct order.
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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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Exploring How People and Places Affect One Another - Word Wall Cards
63 exploring the affects of people and places vocabulary cards.
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Meet the Teacher Trivia Game - Interactive Activity
Help your students get to know the teacher with a fun All About the Teacher Trivia Game!
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Investigate the Teacher Activity
Help your students learn all about you with an engaging Investigate the Teacher Activity.
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Separating Mixtures Worksheet
Review different methods for separating mixtures with a printable Separating Mixtures worksheet.
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Classroom Hand Signals - Poster Collection
Strengthen classroom management and cut down on classroom interruptions with a set of classroom hand signal posters.
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Making Art and Craft – Procedure Writing Project
Get your students to create a high-quality procedural text that teaches others how to make an art or craft creation using this fully scaffolded writing project booklet.
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Exploring Earthquakes Comprehension Worksheets
Give your students a clear, engaging introduction to earthquakes, what causes them, and how scientists measure them with printable Earthquakes Comprehension Worksheets.
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Microorganisms - Good and Bad Bacteria Poster Pack
Teach your students about good and bad bacteria with a printable Microorganisms - Good and Bad Bacteria Poster pack.
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Google Sheets Random Group Generator Tool
Group your students with a single click using our Google Sheets Random Group Generator Tool for teachers.
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Mindfulness Drawing Task Cards — Meditation Drawing for Kids
Promote mindfulness and calm in your classroom with a set of printable Mindful Drawing Task Cards to use as brain breaks.
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Positive Feedback Note Templates
Promote positivity and celebrate your students with printable Positive Student Feedback Note Templates.
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Space-Themed Classroom Door Display
Launch into a new year with a Space-Themed Classroom Door display featuring planets, stars, and editable student name tags.
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Classroom Job Application Template
Encourage your students to take responsibility with a printable classroom job application template.
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Lunar New Year Red Envelopes – Printable Template
Celebrate with Lunar New Year Red Envelopes using this simple PDF craft template designed for elementary classrooms. Just download, print, and create.
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The Locked Theater Whole Class Escape Game
The Locked Theater is an engaging whole class escape game designed for team building and collaboration.
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Time-Lapse Observation Charts for Science Inquiry
Track scientific changes over time with a set of printable Time Lapse Observation Charts.
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Triple Venn Diagram Template
Download a printable Triple Venn Diagram Template to use when comparing and contrasting three topics.
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About Me Hexagonal Thinking Activity
Start the school year with an engaging Hexagonal Thinking Activity to help students see the connections between themselves and their new classmates.
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Behavior Intervention Plan Template
Use our Behavior Intervention Plan template to monitor and track student behavior interventions and results.
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Mood Anchor Chart- Literary Element Poster
Introduce your students to mood, the atmosphere-creating literary element, with a printable Mood Anchor Chart.
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Reading Response Task Cards
Explore reading comprehension with your students using this set of reading response task cards.
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Place Value Patterns Worksheet
Use this place value patterns worksheet to help your students analyze patterns in decimal place values out to the thousandths place.
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Free Click or Clunk Worksheet
Support students in monitoring their reading comprehension with this Click and Clunk Reading Strategy Recording Sheet!
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Volume of a Rectangular Prism Activity — Mini-Book
Use our volume of a rectangular prism activity book to teach your students concepts of volume.
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Metric Measurement Conversion Lesson Plan — Teaching Slides
Teach your students metric conversions with our metric measurement conversion lesson plan slides that are easy to download and use!
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Word Power - Vocabulary Comic Strip Graphic Organizer
Expand your students’ vocabulary skills with a printable Vocabulary Comic Strip Graphic Organizer.