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Comparing and Contrasting Two Characters Across Fiction Texts
Comparing and Contrasting Two Characters Across Fiction Texts
Lesson Plan
Comparing and Contrasting Two Characters Across Fiction Texts
In this lesson, you will share with your students two books that emphasize the beauty and power of music. They will also meet two unique characters that they will compare and contrast by referencing specific examples from the texts.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson Plan
Figurative Language
Figurative Language
Workbook
Figurative Language
Descriptive language and metaphoric phrases take the spotlight in this workbook. Kids use new vocabulary and common phrases to tackle writing skills.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Workbook
Scrambled Similes
Scrambled Similes
Worksheet
Scrambled Similes
This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Reading Comprehension: Peter Pan
Reading Comprehension: Peter Pan
Worksheet
Reading Comprehension: Peter Pan
In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Primary Sources vs. Secondary Sources
Primary Sources vs. Secondary Sources
Lesson Plan
Primary Sources vs. Secondary Sources
In this lesson, your students will identify and compare the features found in primary and secondary sources.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson Plan
How the Internet Travels Across the Ocean
How the Internet Travels Across the Ocean
Worksheet
How the Internet Travels Across the Ocean
Children learn how the internet travels across the ocean through cables to create a giant, global information network in this engaging, hands-on worksheet.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Explaining Environmental Effects
Explaining Environmental Effects
Lesson Plan
Explaining Environmental Effects
What’s the impact? In this integrated language arts and science lesson students will explore causes and effects that specifically relate to environmental impact, including the effects of human actions.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson Plan
American Revolution
American Revolution
Workbook
American Revolution
Don't tread, but do read up on exciting history! Your child can flex his learning with trivia, games and reading passages all about the American Revolution.
5th grade
Social studies
Workbook
Signal Words, Facts, and Opinions
Signal Words, Facts, and Opinions
Lesson Plan
Signal Words, Facts, and Opinions
Use this lesson to help your ELs search for signal words in texts to determine if a statement is a fact or an opinion. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the Is It True? lesson.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson Plan
A Brain Break: Zombpocalypse
A Brain Break: Zombpocalypse
Workbook
A Brain Break: Zombpocalypse
From zombie history to writing prompts and survival preparedness, this mix of zombie-themed worksheets is the perfect treat for kids who need fun brain breaks and supplementary work.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Workbook
I SHAMPOO C: Figurative Language
I SHAMPOO C: Figurative Language
Lesson Plan
I SHAMPOO C: Figurative Language
Do your students have trouble understanding the main types of figurative language? This lesson will teach them about I SHAMPOO C, an acronym used to to remember nine of the main types with ease.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson Plan
Find the Main Idea: Viceroy Butterfly
Find the Main Idea: Viceroy Butterfly
Worksheet
Find the Main Idea: Viceroy Butterfly
Kids show off their reading comprehension skills with this language arts worksheet.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Informational Text: Close Reading
Informational Text: Close Reading
Lesson Plan
Informational Text: Close Reading
Use a student-friendly glossary and sentence frames to learn about wild weather! Scaffolds will help your students answer text-dependent questions. This lesson can be paired with the main Informational Text: Close Reading lesson.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson Plan
Poetry: Figurative Language
Poetry: Figurative Language
Lesson Plan
Poetry: Figurative Language
This literary lesson has students delving into Emily Dickinson's "The Moon was but a Chin of Gold" to find different types of figurative language. Writers will love sharpening reading comprehension skills with this poetry analysis activity.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson Plan
Identify the Author's Purpose
Identify the Author's Purpose
Worksheet
Identify the Author's Purpose
Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify the author’s purpose.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
There’s No I in Theme-work!
There’s No I in Theme-work!
Lesson Plan
There’s No I in Theme-work!
That’s right! The theme applies to everyone! Use this interactive lesson to teach your students how to find the theme of a fictional text.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson Plan
Learn about the Earth's Layers
Learn about the Earth's Layers
Worksheet
Learn about the Earth's Layers
Kids learn about the Earth's solid and atmospheric layers, then label the diagram with the correct terms in this fifth grade Earth science worksheet.
5th grade
Science
Worksheet
History of Jazz
History of Jazz
Worksheet
History of Jazz
Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of jazz music, and the history of African-Americans in pop music.
5th grade
Fine arts
Worksheet
Inferring Character Motivation
Inferring Character Motivation
Lesson Plan
Inferring Character Motivation
In this support lesson, students will use sentence frames and short texts to make inferences about a character in order to understand their motivation. Use this as a support for the lesson What's the Theme? Analyzing Character Motivation.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson Plan
Exploring Different Points of View
Exploring Different Points of View
Lesson Plan
Exploring Different Points of View
The activities in this lesson will engage students in thinking about how a person’s position, needs, and concerns affect their point of view on an issue. Students will apply this to characters in "The Memory String" by Eve Bunting.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson Plan
Information from Multiple Sources
Information from Multiple Sources
Lesson Plan
Information from Multiple Sources
Use this lesson to help your ELs quickly find information on a specific topic by looking for a noun and its pronouns in a nonfiction text. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Ecosystems Explained.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson Plan
Examine the Song “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”
Examine the Song “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”
Worksheet
Examine the Song “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”
Use this worksheet to help your students understand patriotic songs, like an older national anthem.
5th grade
Social studies
Worksheet
Everyday Physics
Everyday Physics
Workbook
Everyday Physics
Paper airplanes, the force of gravity on objects, how lightning works, magnets and so much more! This workbook helps build a good foundation for basic physics knowledge. Newton would be proud.
5th grade
Science
Workbook
How the Camel Got His Hump
How the Camel Got His Hump
Worksheet
How the Camel Got His Hump
Make reading practice fun with this reading comprehension packet, based on Rudyard Kipling's "How the Camel Got His Hump".
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Sub Plans for Fifth Grade
Sub Plans for Fifth Grade
Lesson Plan
Sub Plans for Fifth Grade
Planning for a substitute in the classroom has never been easier than with this fifth grade, week-long sub packet! Your substitute can supercharge learning with lessons about real-life heroes that will educate and inspire your students!
5th grade
Math
Lesson Plan
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Fifth Grade Reading

Teaching fifth grade reading? Simplify your planning process with this library of various engaging resources. From lesson plans on power reading to main idea worksheets and book posters, these resources will help your child learn a skill from start to finish. Pick as many as you want to get your child on the right path. Round out the essential curriculum with some fifth grade math resources.