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Fifth Grade Punctuation Worksheets and Printables

Not only do these fifth grade punctuation worksheets help your ten- or eleven-year-old improve his writing, they also encourage him to practice good editing skills. Kids will learn where and when to use certain kinds of punctuation, and they'll also learn to recognize when punctuation is used incorrectly or in the wrong place.

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Punctuation

Punctuate Me: Using Commas

Get your child's punctuation engines started with this worksheet that breaks down where and how to use commas.

Sentence Editing

This fun and spooky worksheet focuses on sentence editing. Your student will correct all the grammatical errors he finds in the worksheet.

Comma usage is a tricky task! Is your student up to the challenge? This grammar sheet will quiz your child on his knowledge of commas.

Reading Response Letter Interactive

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

Capitalizing and Punctuating Titles and Headings

Show your students that learning to capitalize and punctuate titles isn’t that hard when they review and practice these simple guidelines.

Punctuation and Capitalization

Assess your student's understanding of grammar with this punctuation and capitalization activity. Students will rewrite sentences that are missing capitalization, quotation marks, and punctuation.

Using Quotation Marks

When writing dialogue, it's important to know where to place quotation marks and other punctuation. Get some practice with this passage from The Secret Garden.

Possessive Apostrophe Review

This activity will review that one simple rule and provide some examples to apply this rule.

Punctuating Your Letter

Challenge students to find and edit specific punctuation errors! This letter-editing exercise is good practice for students learning to write both formal letters — like persuasive or business correspondence — and friendly, informal letters.

Punctuation Power!

Kids practice commas and ending punctuation with this worksheet.

Help your tween regain command of formal writing with this worksheet that translates text grammar back into complete sentences.

Reading Response Letter Format

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

Shrink Ray Contractions #3

Fifth graders build their contraction knowledge by helping the shrink ray identify words that can be combined and writing the corresponding contractions.

Compound Your Sentences

This small-group exercise makes crafting compound sentences fun!

What is a comma splice, and how do you fix it? Find out with this grammar worksheet, all about commas and conjunctions!

Read sentences that use colons and decide if the colon is used correctly or incorrectly.

Reading Response Letter Checklist

After students have learned about reading response letters they can use this checklist to polish their own letter.

Fun Practice Making Compound Sentences

Making compound sentences has never been this fun!

A Recipe for Transition Use

Where Do Commas Belong?

With this exercise, students will learn some of the most common ways to use a comma.

Cite and Explain Your Evidence #1: Literary Response

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

Shrink Ray Contractions #2

Help your fifth grader practice spelling contractions and identifying the words they stand for by zapping them with the contraction shrink ray!

Collecting Strong Evidence

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

How to Cite Strong Evidence: Literary Response

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

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