5th Grade English Language Arts Activities

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

This science fair project idea discovers if an artificial light source will yield the same plant health and growth rates as light from the sun.

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Does your fifth grader need a study buddy for geometry? Forget about a tutor. Help him make his own geometry dictionary!

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

Your fifth grade aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.