5th Grade Common Core English Language Arts Exercises

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Show students how to describe an action in the recent past with this exercise on past tense verbs.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Challenge your fifth graders with these exercises that contain incorrect verbs that need to be corrected. Hints give your students the help they need to learn while retaining the lesson.

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.

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

This is one of the best exercises on comparative and superlative adjectives because it is clearer and easier to understand.

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.

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

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

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

Help students stay focused on their future with this simple exercise that will give them mastery over the future tense.

Help students learn how to categorize objects with this exercise that educates them about oxymorons.

Help your fifth grader describe the relationship between two thoughts by using the proper conjunctions. These exercises will help your student solidify concepts and practice individually.

After completing the following exercise, students will be able to answer basic questions about an event involving how, when, and where.

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