5th Grade English Language Arts Resources : Page 18

Young historians will love learning facts about the famous Viking explorer Leif Ericson while practicing their reading comprehension and writing skills.

Your child will love learning all about the exploits of the famous European explorer Marco Polo with this attractively illustrated worksheet.

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

The words indicated on this worksheet may sound and look the same, but they are "homonyms," meaning that they have different meanings. Double trouble!

Encourage students to make connections as they learn new words with this creative vocabulary quilt activity!

Your young student will step back in time with this worksheet on the Ming Dynasty. He'll build comprehension skills as he learns some ancient history.

Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

Challenge your students to use what they know about idioms to find the double meaning in these silly puns. They will ‘get a kick’ out of it!

Children learn facts about dolphin's evolution, behavior, and physical traits in this reading comprehension worksheet.

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

Use this short story to help your students practice identifying the root words "son" and "sect" in context.

Put your child's Christmas knowledge to the test with a challenging crossword puzzle all about this fun winter holiday.

Children work with sentence structure, build teamwork skills, and construct a story in this fun writing game.

Your young writer will learn how to position prepositional phrases in a sentence diagram with this grammar sheet.

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

"We can fly! We can fly" Your child may never fly, but they'll have a soaring good time with this Peter Pan story and worksheet.

Learners practice finding and editing specific punctuation errors in this letter-editing exercise.

What if you met a snake who could make you rich? Enjoy one of the classic Panchatantra stories, animal fables from India that have a moral lesson.

In Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far), third and fourth graders reference a timeline of Sotomayor's life to answer questions about her life.

In this worksheet, young writers will read two simple descriptions, then rewrite them using more vivid verbs and adjectives.

With this exercise, students will practice writing counter-arguments and rebuttals.

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

Encourage students to make connections as they learn new vocabulary with this Vocabulary Connections Map.