Weekly Boost
This Week in Fifth Grade
Week 38
Grammar
Grammar Review
Take some time to review any especially challenging fifth-grade grammar concepts with your child. Review these worksheets with your child, and take note of the areas in which they may need extra support. Review and continue practicing as needed. If your child has mastered the concepts, ask them to try to write example problems of their own. Then you can answer their questions! Remind your child to create an answer sheet as well.
Take some time to review any especially challenging fifth-grade grammar concepts with your students. In small groups, create informational posters, each explaining a grammar concept, like pronouns or verb tense. Invite each group to present their poster, which can serve as a great resource for the rest of the class.
Grammar Review: Nouns
Worksheet
Grammar Review: Nouns
How well does your student know his parts of speech? Give him a great review of nouns with this comprehensive sheet.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Grammar Review: Verbs
Worksheet
Grammar Review: Verbs
Help your 5th grader to recognize and use verbs with this practice sheet. He can fill in the blanks, identify verbs, and correct the ones that are misused!
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Relative Adverbs
Exercise
Relative Adverbs
Students who complete this exercise will be able to explain situations more clearly using adverbs.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Exercise
Using Parentheses and Fraction Word Problems
Using Parentheses and Fraction Word Problems
When solving fraction word problems, encourage your child to use visuals, like tape diagrams, to show their mathematical thinking before they solve them with standard computation. Visuals can help your child understand the problems in a deeper way, and can also help them to check their work. Remind your child that the order of operations applies to problems with fractions, too!
When solving fraction word problems, encourage students to use visuals, like tape diagrams, to show their mathematical thinking before they solve them with standard computation. Visuals can help your students understand the problems in a deeper way, and can also help them to check their work. Remind the class that the order of operations applies to problems with fractions, too!
Fraction Word Problems: Strawberry Stand
Worksheet
Fraction Word Problems: Strawberry Stand
Amy needs help calculating her strawberry sales! This math worksheet will be great for practical application of fractions in everyday life.
5th grade
Math
Worksheet
Express Yourself!
Lesson plan
Express Yourself!
Help your students create a basis for future math classes with this lesson that teaches children about math expressions and how they can interpret them.
5th grade
Math
Lesson plan
Writing About Math Expressions
Lesson plan
Writing About Math Expressions
Have your students evaluate orally and in writing what happens to expressions when there are two or more operations. Use this lesson as a standalone lesson or as support to the lesson Express Yourself.
5th grade
Math
Lesson plan
Compare and Contrast in Nonfiction Texts
Compare and Contrast in Nonfiction Texts
Host a family movie night about a historical event! Afterwards, discuss the movie's themes, comparing and contrasting aspects of the film to actual events. What did your child observe? What inferences did they make as they watched? Conversations like this can prepare your child to apply these same critical thinking skills to their reading. Afterwards, challenge your child to compare and contrast ideas from these reading worksheets.
Use graphic organizers and visual guides to support your students as they compare and contrast information from nonfiction texts. This is especially important when students are inferring relationships between ideas or subtopics. Once students have recorded information in an organizer, they will be prepared to have conversations about their inferences and observations. Be sure to model this process for your students by working though a sample text with them.
The Star, Mae Jemison
Worksheet
The Star, Mae Jemison
Get to know astronaut Mae Jemison in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Top Hat Graphic Organizer
Worksheet
Top Hat Graphic Organizer
Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
The Fungus Among Us
Worksheet
The Fungus Among Us
Your students will be amazed to learn about different types of fungus in this nonfiction reading exercise!
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Informational Writing: Historical and Recreational Topics
Informational Writing: Historical and Recreational Topics
Summer is a great opportunity to explore blogging! Encourage your child to research and write about nonfiction topics, as this will be an important skill in the upper grades. Allow them to choose fun topics that interest them to keep them motivated to continue their research and writing. This fun summertime endeavor can generate interest in writing, and help kids boost their writing skills, too!
Summer is a great opportunity to explore blogging! Encourage your students to research and write about nonfiction topics over the summer, as this will be an important skill in the upper grades. Tell them to choose fun topics that interest them so they will stay motivated to continue their research and writing. This fun summertime endeavor can generate interest in writing, and help kids boost their writing skills, too!
Blog Template: Listicles
Worksheet
Blog Template: Listicles
In the worksheet Blog Template: Listicles, young blog writers create a list of suggestions or ideas and provide a brief description of each with a bullet point.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
A Malala-Inspired Activity: Listicle Blog Posts
Activity
A Malala-Inspired Activity: Listicle Blog Posts
Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
Activity
Using Reference Materials
Worksheet
Using Reference Materials
In this worksheet, children will learn about a few common resource materials and how to search for information in them alphabetically.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
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