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.

Include proper address form in your unit on letter writing to help your fifth graders learn how to be clear as they describe various locations for use personally and professionally.

Have your fifth graders master their written phrasing with these exercises that ask them to identify punctuation placement and closer phrases.

Reinforce students’ understanding of PEMDAS by practicing the order of operations and using parentheses in this exercise.

Take your fifth graders' story telling abilities to the next level with these exercises that have them put their knowledge of transition words to the test.

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.

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

Teach students how to use short stories to illustrate a point with this engaging exercise.

Teach students how to calculate volume by exposing them to formulas they can use on their own.

Before students can master subtracting fractions, they’ll want to use this exercise to learn how to reach like denominators.

Have your fifth grader use sentence details and clues to determine the best transition word to link two sentences.

Show students how to complete a fraction subtraction problem while working with unlike denominators with this easy to use exercise.

Help students expand their knowledge of sentence structures with these exercises that encourage students to use correlative conjunctions in their writing.

Understanding fractional operations will be much easier for students after they have learned how to use line plots to interpret data.

For students still learning grammar, this exercise will be instrumental in teaching them how to use suffixes to change verbs into nouns.

Students will be able to put the new skills they gain from this exercise to use whenever they want to add volumes together.

Showing students how to add decimal numbers to the thousandths is a snap when you take advantage of this easy to use exercise.

Teach your fifth graders when interjections are appropriate and how to use them with these exercises that have a variety of questions and helpful hints.

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.

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.

By fifth grade, students are starting to use all of the parts of speech in their writing. Make sure they do so correctly with these exercises that solidify the place of these words in sentences.

Have your students practice their use of articles by giving them options and allowing them to work through them individually. This allows them to find their own best way to think through problems.

Students will be able to read between the lines after studying this exercise on identifying contextual clues.

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

Students who complete this exercise will be able to explain situations more clearly using adverbs.

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

When the answer doesn’t need to be precise, students can find the answer to a decimal division problem using estimation.

Teach your class how to work through multiplying unit fractions with just a few clicks of the mouse using this exercise.

For students who are just learning about verb tenses, this exercises will show them how to modify tenses using suffixes.

Help your fifth graders embellish their written work with these exercises that give them practice using adjectives to add detail to their sentences.