5th Grade English Language Arts Exercises

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

Students will be able to creatively apply metaphors to their discussions after they complete this exercise.

This exercise will show students the difference between some of the most common homophones and homographs.

Students will hone their ability to identify differences between homophones with this final exercise in the series.

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

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.

In this final exercise in the series, students will become adept at applying their knowledge of prefixes to forming new words and expanding their vocabulary.

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

Break up prepositional phrases into prepositions and objects with these exercises that put your fifth grader's knowledge to the test.

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

Teach your fifth grader how to punctuate titles of different written works in essays and reports with these exercises and hints.

Seeing how one object is related to another is important in describing things in time, space, or size. Give your fifth grader the tools they need to understand this concept with these exercises.

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

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

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