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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Life is a Puzzle, Solve it Drug Free Coloring Sheets
Blend art and drug awareness education with our ‘Life is a Puzzle, Solve It Drug Free! coloring pages for Red Ribbon Week.
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Roll a Kandinsky - Children's Art Game
Introduce your students to the circle art style of Wassily Kandinsky with a fun Roll a Kandinsky Children's Art Game.
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Printable 2025 Calendar with Holidays and School Events
Organize your event planning for the whole year with this printable 2025 school calendar with holidays and events.
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Commas With Subordinate Clauses Worksheet
Use a Commas With Subordinate Clauses Worksheet to help your students practice comma placement in complex sentences.
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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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PEMDAS Anchor Chart and Bookmark Set
Use this PEMDAS anchor chart and bookmark set to remind your students about the correct order of operations.
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States of Matter Graphic Organizer Pack
Use printable graphic organizers to help your students record what they have learned about the three forms of matter.
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Coordinate Plane Printable Templates
Download these coordinate plane printable templates for use in your coordinate planes or graphing unit.
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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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Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Sources Poster Pack
Introduce your students to examples of primary, secondary, and tertiary sources of information with a printable set of anchor charts.
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Introduction to the Paralympic Games – Inquiry-Based Project
Introduce your students to the key components of the Paralympic Games with this inquiry-based learning project.
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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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Comprehension Task Cards Summarizing
Practice summarizing text with this set of event-specific task cards.
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Free Planet Coloring Pages
Use these black and white planet templates as coloring pages for your students.
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Color-Coding Summarizing Nonfiction Text Worksheets
Practice summarizing small nonfiction texts with this fun color-coding set of worksheets.
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Measurement Conversion Game - SCOOT!
Grab a handy set of 24 measurement conversion task cards to use as a whole class scoot activity.
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Free Printable Password Tracker Template
Grab a free password tracker printable to help your students keep track of their computer login information.
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Emoji Equation Riddles - Determine the Unknown
Build problem-solving and critical thinking skills with printable Emoji Math Riddle task cards.
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Weathering vs. Erosion Worksheet Pack
Support student understanding of weathering and erosion with this reading comprehension passage, worksheet and accompanying vocabulary activities.
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Back to School Activity Mats - K-5
Use these back-to-school activity mats as your first day of school warm-up activity during morning arrival.
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Bee-Themed Classroom Desk Name Plates
Make custom name plates for your students with these editable bee themed classroom name plates.
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Finding the Main Idea in Fiction Texts Interactive Activity
Help your students easily find the main idea and support details in a fiction text with this interactive activity.
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Finding the Main Idea - Graphic Organizer Templates
Teach students how to find the main idea of a text using one of these one-page graphic organizers.
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Comprehension Task Cards - Finding The Main Idea
A set of comprehension task cards to help students find the main idea when reading.
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Prefixes and Suffixes Slide Deck
Help your students determine the meanings of prefixes and suffixes with an instructional slide deck.
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Climate Zone Map — Printable Classroom Resource
Print a climate zone map for the classroom to support lessons about the 6 climate types.
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Writing About Fractions- Task Cards
Review fraction concepts and practice mathematical constructed response questions with a set of writing about fractions task cards.
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Improper Fractions Anchor Chart
Display this improper fractions anchor chart full of information about proper fractions, improper fractions, and mixed numbers for easy reference.
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Day and Night – Worksheet
Encourage your students to illustrate the day and night cycle with this free worksheet.
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Converting Units of Length – Board Game
Engage your students with a lively board game while practicing how to convert customary and metric units of length.
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2-D Shapes and Their Attributes - Interactive PowerPoint
Practice identifying the attributes of different 2D shapes with this 90-slide interactive PowerPoint.