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5th Grade Common Core English Language Arts Exercises

Students will understand just where their vocabulary words come from with this root words exercise.


Root Words 

For additional practice, have students complete this exercise that will give them mastery over compound and hyphenated words.


Compound Words 2

Give students practice with all of the parts that make up complete sentences in this exercise.


Complete Sentences 

Students will be able to understand words without a dictionary after they work through this exercise teaching how to determine the meaning of words using roots, prefixes, and suffixes.


Determine Meaning Using Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

Give a cultural lesson and expand your students’ vocabulary at the same time with this idioms exercise.


Idioms 2

Students who complete this exercise will have no problem pronouncing those long syllables in multi syllable words.


Long Vowels in Multi-Syllable Words

Your students will be masters of irregularly spelled words after completing this final exercise in the series.


Irregularly Spelled Words 3

Relative pronouns make it simple for your fourth grader to describe the subject of a sentence in a fluid and orderly way. Give them the practice they need with these exercises and helpful hints.

Relative Pronouns

Every educator eschews un-exciting educational exercises; employ this Education.com exercise for an entertaining and eventful lesson on alliteration!


Alliteration

Replacing possessive nouns with possessive pronouns helps your students' writing sound more natural and makes for an effortless read. Give your fifth graders the practice they need with these exercises created specifically for their age group.

Possessive Nouns 3

Students will be able to creatively apply metaphors to their discussions after they complete this exercise.


Metaphors 3

Test your students with these exercises that have them identify simple, compound, and complex sentences. Helpful hints give your students all the information they need to work through the problems on their own.

Types of Sentences

Have your fifth grader learn when a clause is an interrupter with this fun and interactive activity that tests them on their knowledge of clauses rather than that of punctuation. 

Using Commas to Separate an Interrupter

Help develop the fluency of your student's writing with these exercises that help them understand the importance of matching object and subject pronouns with their antecedent.

Pronoun Antecedent Agreement 2

Have your students practice their sentence combining skills with these exercises that give them visuals and helpful hints. 

Commas to Combine Short Sentences 2

Students with a strong foundation in the present tense of verbs will be able to better understand other tenses.


Present Tense Verbs 3

Students will be as confident in writing as a Pulitzer Prize winner after completing this final exercise in the similes series.


Similes 3

Students will finally have a name to describe the “dog ate my homework” storytelling that runs rampant throughout childhood with this hyperbole exercise.


Hyperbole

Prepare your Fifth Grader for middle school and beyond with this capitalization exercise that reinforces what they already know and teaches them new skills.

Capitalization of Titles and Headings 3

Allow your students to practice individually with these exercises that test them on their knowledge of plural possessive nouns. Helpful hints encourage your students to think through problems in order to solidify the lesson.

Apostrophes in Plural Possessive Nouns 2

Using descriptive verbs will add more color to any comment, and this exercise shows students how to incorporate them.


Descriptive Verbs 2

Improve your students' phrasing with these exercises that teach them how to identify and fix awkward run-on sentences.

Run-Ons

Commas serve so many uses in our written language, and learning their vast possibilities helps fifth graders in their essay writing and beyond. Punctuating direct addresses can be tricky, but your fifth grader can get the help they need with these exercises.

Using Commas to Indicate Direct Address

Help students put a name to their favorite numbers with this exercise on prefixes related to numbers.


Prefixes Related to Numbers

Make your fifth grader a master of sentence fragments with these exercises that have them identify incomplete sentences and improve their writing.

Complete Sentences vs. Fragments 3

Students will be masters of using suffixes to modify adjectives and adverbs after this exercise.


Suffixes to Change an Adjective to an Adverb 2

Students will have a blast playing with this exercise that shows how spelling onomatopoeias comes from real-life sounds.


Onomatopoeia

There’s nothing greater than a student who can appreciate a pun activity when they play one.


Teach your fifth grader how to punctuate titles of different written works in essays and reports with these exercises and hints.

Punctuating Titles

The use of apostrophes in writing can be challenging for students to understand, but practice makes perfect with these exercises that allow them to learn individually. 

Apostrophes in Singular Possessive Nouns 2

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5th Grade Common Core English Language Arts Exercises

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