4th and 5th Grade English Language Arts Exercises

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

This example-filled exercise will help students develop a fuller understanding of context from clues embedded in texts.

This exercise will help students expand their vocabulary by learning how to read 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.

Have your fourth grader test their knowledge of subjects and predicates with these exercises that ask them to identify whether a sentence is a fragment, and what is missing.

Your students will be all smiles when learning how to compare objects with this similes exercise.

Review simple, compound, and complex sentences with your students to help them succeed as they begin writing reports and essays.

This exercise provides ground rules for forming plurals, as well as common irregular words students should learn.

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.

Introduce students to the world of idioms with this exercise that shares some of the most common expressions in the English language.

This exercise will teach students learn how to pronounce the unique sounds of words containing double syllables.

English is a language full of exceptions to rules, and this exercise will enhance students’ understanding of irregularly spelled words.

With the basics established, students will enjoy making use of the knowledge of common prefixes shared in this exercise.

This Education.com exercise makes it clear to students how to break down compound and hyphenated words correctly.

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.

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.

Teach your students everything they need to know about proper nouns to succeed in their future writing careers with this exercise that gives them additional practice while providing helpful hints!

Allow your fourth graders to identify all parts of prepositional phrases with these exercises that have them visualize steps and provide helpful hints.

Creating compound sentences can be confusing for fourth graders to learn, but this lesson can be made easy with interactive exercises and helpful hints found here.

Students who complete this exercise will have no problem spelling tricky multi-syllable words.

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

Teach students how to change the meaning of words by adding suffixes with this simple exercise.

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

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.

Some words are remarkably similar, and this exercise will build students’ confidence in finding the difference between them.

Help your students add detail to their writing by having them incorporate comparative and superlative adjectives. Detailed writing is important as your fourth grader continues on in school and writing assignments become more intense.

Use this exercise to give your struggling student additional practice in recognizing when to capitalize the names of people, places, and things.