5th Grade Common Core English Language Arts Worksheets

Students will learn fun facts about animals while making inferences about nonfiction text.

If your students need support in matching obscure words with the deeper meaning, invite them to use the clues on this worksheet to match words and phrases with their corresponding meanings.

Write your own unique story with silly nouns, verbs, adjectives, and more! 

Students will make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Learners will use context clues to determine the correct homophone for each of eight sentences.

Hone key reading comprehension strategies with this engaging five-page worksheet!

Help students learn and remember key types of figurative language with this convenient handout!

Put your child's Christmas knowledge to the test with a challenging crossword puzzle all about this fun winter holiday.

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with this worksheet featuring summer-themed similes!

Explore different types of sentences with this helpful grammar worksheet!

Students hone their ability to spot literary devices with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Send a letter to your future self with this back-to-school writing prompt!

Practice identifying and using verbs in the past, present, and future tenses as well as their progressive forms.

Learners will learn about a winter holiday, then complete the graphic organizer with their notes, using this festive research template.

In this Martin Luther King Jr. Cut-and-Paste Timeline worksheet, students will learn about the life of an important historical figure.

This writing worksheet is a good way for learners to boost vocabulary and spelling, and it's a great tool to prepare for standardized testing.

In this worksheet, students will read about Anne Frank, then complete a chart identifying cause and effect.

Get back to the grammar basics with this plural nouns review worksheet for fifth- and sixth-grade learners!

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about soul music and the history of African-Americans in pop music, all in this Hip-Hop Music worksheet!

What’s all the buzz about beekeeping? Give students this four-page nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet to find out!

Let your young writer relax by practicing writing notes to friends, journal entries, and even a grocery list!

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

BOOM! This worksheet is full of all kinds of sound-based words, from creaks to squeaks.

Get students thinking and writing creatively with this prompt about a walk in the woods that takes an unexpected turn when the trail disappears beneath the snow!

In this engaging reading comprehension worrksheet, learners read an original two-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions.

Develop reading comprehension with this video game passage. Ask your students to read the excerpt, then answer questions about the main ideas and details.

Students will practice using pronouns to help them understand point of view.

In this worksheet, students practice identifying and correcting common irregularly spelled words and homophones.

Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored as one of the most important leaders in the civil rights movement. Give your fourth and fifth graders a chance to deepen their understanding of his life and legacy through this reader’s theater activity.

Learn all about The Mayflower, the famous ship the Pilgrims made their great journey in.