5th Grade Reading & Writing Resources

What's the best way to get to know a city? Play tourist! In this activity, students create a travel brochure on the 2008 Olympic host city, Beijing.

Children build their vocabulary in this word meaning and spelling worksheet by learning 10 new vocabulary words, along with their definitions, then writing them on the spaces provided.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Information from Multiple Sources.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to reflect and re-imagine story endings with characters from their favorite tales.

This research project asks students to create their own travel brochure about Melbourne, including an introduction, historic events, fun facts, and more.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia.

This Easter worksheet will help students practice understanding the meaning of puns.

Your budding writer can review the parts of speech with this worksheet on sentence diagrams. He'll get a better grasp on sentence structure as he goes.

Students will pick their favorite facts about the city of Prague and create their own travel brochure, complete with a map.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Alliteration Accessible.

A screenplay tells the actors what to say, the camera how to move, and much more. These worksheets bring the movie onto the page for your young film buff.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts.

Learners will embark on a top-level grammar and mechanics mission in this fun contractions worksheet.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing!

Pick up some fun movie trivia and learn about how special sound effects are made on this reading comprehension worksheet!

For little private eyes everywhere, here's a chance to play detective! Your child will use writing and drawing skills to finish this fun and furry comic strip.

About 14 million people visit the historic city of Berlin each year. Give your students the opportunity to study and share historic facts and places in Germany's capital with this brochure exercise.

Did you spill the salt? Step on a crack? Do you even care? You decide what, if anything, causes bad luck. Get the juices flowing for some creative writing.

Help your students get to know a common prefix with this great graphic organizer.

Students will read a complex sentence and then break it down into bite-size chunks in order to practice rewording vocabulary in this reading fluency worksheet.

What ten essentials would you pack in case of an emergency? Help kids think about disaster preparedness from zombie apocalypse point of view!

Children build their vocabulary in this word meaning and spelling worksheet by learning 10 new vocabulary words, along with their definitions, then writing them on the spaces provided.

What is that strange object in the sky? This prompt will be a lift off for your young writer's imagination as he creates a story to match the picture.

Use this awfully good worksheet about using an oxymoron to inspire creative writing.

Researching, both online and offline, is a skill your student will find useful in any class. This writing worksheet gives her an interesting topic to research.