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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Editable Classroom Birthday Calendar
Grab a free classroom birthday calendar wall display and start celebrating student birthdays in style.
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Blank Graph Template Pack
Construct your own graphs with a printable set of Blank Graph Templates.
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5th Grade Matter Properties Worksheet - Scavenger Hunt
Explore the observable properties of matter in the classroom environment with a Matter Properties Worksheet and activity for 5th grade.
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Place Value Poster Set — Whole Numbers
Display this colorful place value poster set in your classroom to remind your students of place values to the millions and billions.
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How Do Rocks Form? – Informative Text Structure Sequencing Activity
Help students learn about informative text structure and how rocks are formed with an engaging cut-and-paste sorting activity.
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Better Verb Choice Words Pack
Help your students during their writing with this set of visually appealing verb posters and verb word mat.
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Roll to Create a Magical Story – Dice Game
Get your students writing magical stories with this engaging and interactive “Roll to Create” dice game.
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Character Profile Template Pack
Explore the personality, appearance, feelings and actions of a character with printable character profile templates.
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Using Quotation Marks - Task Cards
Practice adding double quotation marks to direct speech with printable quotation mark task cards.
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Have a Bright Year! Lightbulb Goal Setting Craft
Brighten up your first day of school with a fun Lightbulb-themed goal-setting craft activity.
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Student Speeding Ticket Templates
Urge your students to slow down and take their time on assignments by issuing them a printable ‘Speeding Ticket’ to encourage revisions.
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Report Writing Poster With Annotations
Display this report writing poster to help students when learning how to write this type of text.
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3D All About Me Template - Craftivity
Create a three-dimensional All About Me display for hanging in the classroom with this 3D All About Me template.
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Student Learning Goals Tracker
Identify and track student goal achievement with an editable and printable student goal-tracking template.
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Adding Fractions With Unlike Denominators Slide Deck
Teach your students how to add fractions with unlike denominators using a variety of strategies with this comprehensive slide deck.
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Adding Unlike Fractions Word Problems Task Cards
Use this set of word problems for adding fractions with unlike denominators to help your students practice this important math skill.
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Soup, Salad, or Sandwich? Game - Interactive Icebreaker
Play the Soup, Salad, or Sandwich? Game for an exciting Back-to-School Icebreaker activity!
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Imaginative, Persuasive and Informative Paragraphs PowerPoint
Learn about the different structures of imaginative, persuasive and informative paragraphs.
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Testing in Progress Sign Bundle
Use these printable Testing in Progress signs to alert those outside your classroom to keep their voices down while your students are testing.
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Teacher To-Do List Templates
Use our printable teacher to-do list templates to organize your day and stay on top of school-related tasks.
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Technology Word Wall Vocabulary
Create a technology related vocabulary word wall for your classroom or computer lab with a printable and editable set of 72 Technology vocab cards.
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I Am Poem Template
Get to know your students and create back-to-school poems with a printable ‘I Am… Poem template.
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Roll to Create - All About Me Drawing Game
Roll to create a fun About Me Artwork with a printable back-to-school drawing game.
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Blank Number Lines - Printable
Print a set of open number lines to help you teach a variety of math skills.
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Design a Planet Project
Explore the different planets during this design your own planet project for kids.
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Comparing and Ordering Decimals Worksheet
Get students comparing and ordering decimals to the thousandths place with this printable worksheet.
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Free Google Slides Template for Teachers - Pink Spots
Prepare and instruct your students on day-to-day classroom happenings with a ‘Pretty in Pink’ Google Slides Template for teachers.
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Converting Time Units - Task Cards
Practice converting time with a handy set of free Time Unit Conversion Task Cards.
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Bee Themed Classroom Decor Bundle
Create a bee-themed classroom with a decor bundle full of bulletin boards, student awards and more printable and digital bee decor for your hive!
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Back to School - Family Survey
Promote parent involvement and get to know your students better with a beginning-of-the-year parent survey template.
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All About Me Book - One Pager Template
Save paper and get to know your students with a Back-to-School About Me One-Pager Mini Book.
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Get to Know Me Classroom Quilt Template
Create a Get to Know Me Quilt with a printable quilt block template to show off the fantastic new students in your new classroom.