Create your own crazy story with this fill-in-the-blank story! Your budding writer will practice parts of speech as he fills in missing parts of the story.
Two kids and a mad scientist go on a grammar adventure in this punctuation workbook! Learn comma placement, writing titles, and sentence structure as this time-traveling trio hops across decades.
Verbs do a lot of the heavy lifting in good writing. Understanding the different kinds of verbs and how they are used enables students to write more compellingly. Students will explore how tenses work and how they must agree with and sometimes work together with other words in the sentence. Students will also learn about adverbs, the "sister" part of speech that enhance, or modify, verbs.
This final installment of our Fifth Grade Fall Review Packet offers five more days of fun and diverse learning activities to prepare children to enter fifth grade with confidence.
Here is some basic training for every budding author. This series focuses on the pre-writing and organization stages of writing, including sequencing stories, making outlines and researching.
Words work together in a sentence, each one performing a different task. By fifth grade, students have become more adept readers and writers and they are familiar with the basic parts of speech. The activities in this unit revisit some of the basics and also add depth to their existing understanding. Students will engage in such topics as superlative adjectives, correlative conjunctions and prepositional phrases, to name a few.
Help learners gear up for a new year with this Fifth Grade Fall Review Packet - Week 3, complete with 5 days of activities in math, reading, writing, science, and social studies.
When your students read this silly poem, they will find examples of hyperbole. Then, they will make a connection to another language concept: superlatives!
Ad-Lib Stories: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives and Adverbs
Get ready to laugh! A rollicking tale of a kitty trying to earn the title Hunter Cat is even better with your students’ choice of adjectives and adverbs.
Totally awesome! Fifth graders love colorful language, so they will enjoy these Education.com resources that teach them how to identify and use adjectives. Interactive exercises help students identify adjectives and adverbs. Worksheets give students practice brainstorming adjectives and adding adjectives to sentences. In addition to teaching adjectives, you may want to review these adverb resources with your students.
Fantastic Fifth Grade Adjectives Resources
As fifth graders' vocabularies continue to improve, so does their adjective use. Older students already know how adjectives work and how using them can enhance writing and speech. But in fifth grade, students can continue to expand their adjective use in multiple ways. Fifth graders start to use context clues to determine an unknown adjective's possible definition. They also start to utilize resources like thesauruses, dictionaries, and online tools to grow their lexicons.
Using Adjectives and Verbs to Make Writing Come to Life is a lesson plan that shows how verbs and adjectives used together can create a strong visual image. Students will try to re-envision a sentence that the teacher writes on the board with different adjectives. This flexes students' vocabularies and creativity skills. Varsity Parts of Speech Review is a lesson for higher-level elementary school students that examines adverbs, articles, nouns, and more, in addition to adjectives. Emoji Emotions is a visual worksheet where students are tasked to come up with different possible emotions based off of popular emojis. Imagery Using Verbs and Adjectives challenges fifth graders to rewrite sentences with more flavor and pizzaz. Education.com is stocked with other adjective resources for fifth graders to continue to build a language full of gusto and character.