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This Week in Fifth Grade
Week 5
Root Words
Root Words
It can be fun to find root words like "therm" or "terr" hiding in other words. Make a scavenger hunt to find common roots in words students might see or hear. Then, ask them to guess at the meaning of the word based on the meaning of the root word.
Ask students to make charts in a Word Work notebook showing different Greek and Latin root words. Then, students can add words to the charts as they come across them throughout the year.
Root Out the Meaning of Words
Activity
Root Out the Meaning of Words
Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Activity
Grammar: Suffixes
Worksheet
Grammar: Suffixes
This suffixes worksheet helps your child identify and create words with suffixes. This suffixes worksheet helps your child develop reading and writing skills.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Root Words in Context: Port and Struct
Worksheet
Root Words in Context: Port and Struct
Use this short story to help your students practice identifying root words in context.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Multiplying by 10 & Multiples of 10
Multiplying by 10 & Multiples of 10
Once your child has mastered their basic multiplication facts, show them the patterns that occur when they multiply by multiples of ten! This basic skill can help your child with mental math and large factors later in the school year.
Once your students have mastered their basic multiplication facts, show them the patterns that occur when they multiply by multiples of ten! This basic skill can help students with mental math and large factors later in the school year.
Multiply by Multiples of 10
Interactive Worksheet
Multiply by Multiples of 10
Children multiply the same number by different multiples of 10 in this great practice worksheet.
4th grade
Math
Interactive Worksheet
Powers of 10
Lesson plan
Powers of 10
Teach your students to recognize patterns of zeros when multiplying by powers of 10 with exponents.
5th grade
Math
Lesson plan
Powers of Ten Patterns
Lesson plan
Powers of Ten Patterns
Activate your students' observational skills by having them analyze a chart of the powers of ten! Use this lesson on its own or as support to the lesson Powers of 10.
5th grade
Math
Lesson plan
Looking at Author's Craft
Looking at Author's Craft
Talk about the way that different authors present a story. How are the writing styles different between various authors? What are some unfamiliar or striking words the author uses in the story? Encourage your child to discuss how the author uses words to make them feel emotions, such as sympathy, happiness, and even anger.
Students can discover an author's perspective by looking closely at how they write. The way an author organizes their writing, chooses words, and integrates text features can show us more about their point of view.
Analyzing Alliteration
Lesson plan
Analyzing Alliteration
In this fun lesson, your students will practice identifying and writing sentences with alliteration. They will also reflect upon the purpose of alliteration and the effect it has upon the reader.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
Making Alliteration Accessible
Lesson plan
Making Alliteration Accessible
Help your ELs learn about alliteration and practice identifying the descriptive adjectives and nouns that make up alliterative sentences. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support to the lesson Analyzing Alliteration.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
Literary Terms
Worksheet
Literary Terms
Keep this study aid handy during homework time, or keep a copy in the back of your binder for classroom reference.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Narrative Ideas
Narrative Ideas
Ask an aspiring writer to take a boring activity and write about it in an interesting way or from a novel perspective.
Some students have trouble coming up with a small moment to focus on in a personal narrative. Remind them that the beauty of a small moment is it doesn't have to be a big event. Instead, they can discover how a seemingly simple, mundane event can become so much more.
Develop a Story
Worksheet
Develop a Story
With this prewriting organizer, students will brainstorm and visualize details of their fictional story.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
What's Behind the Door?
Worksheet
What's Behind the Door?
Children will use their creative writing skills to continue the story in this fiction writing exercise.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Graphic Organizer Template: Concept Web
Worksheet
Graphic Organizer Template: Concept Web
Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
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