Grade 5 teaching resources for Canada
Narrative Rubric – Student & Peer Self-Assessment
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A two-column narrative-writing rubric lets a writer and peer editor jointly score a completed narrative across four criteria using a shared STEAL character-development vocabulary.
Author ELA Resources
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Tags Narratives, Creative Writing, Writing Prompts, Student Rubric, Assessments, Writing Rubric, Personal Narrative Rubric, Rubric
Sizzling Starts Posters - 15 Story Opening Techniques
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Fifteen story-opening techniques -- action, dialogue, onomatopoeia, and more -- are each illustrated with a short example paragraph for use as a writing mentor text or classroom display.
Author Teach2Tell
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Tags Narrative Writing, Story Openings, Story Openers, Introduction, Exposition, Orientation, Sizzling Starts, Sizzling Starters, Teach Narrative Writing, Strong Leads
Natural Disasters Research Worksheet
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The page frames preparation knowledge as a way to feel and be safer during natural disasters. Separate spaces are provided for an earthquake, tornado, hurricane, and drought. For each, learners investigate actions that can be taken by one person, a group, or an entire community, record findings, and draw an accompanying image. The task emphasizes preparedness research across different scales instead of supplying procedures or asking learners to memorize unsupported safety guarantees.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Weather, Research, Natural Disaster Activities, Natural Disasters Lesson Plans Pdf
News Story Writing Rubric
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A 50-point rubric scores a news story across content, organization, and mechanics, with two copies printed per page for easy handout.
Author The Language of Learning
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Tags Writing Rubric, Student Rubric, News Story, Creative Writing, Literacy Center
Newspaper Templates – 4 Styles for Google Docs
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Two Google Docs newspaper layouts are shared as read-only masters that students copy into their own Drive to write and format a class newspaper.
Author Roombop
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Tags Newspaper, News Template, Google Docs Newspaper Template, Newspaper Templates For Students, Class Newspaper Templates, Editable Newspaper Template Google Docs, Template, Google, Writing Template, Digital Activity
Night at the Museum (2006): Complete Movie Guide
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Seventeen chronological-order questions track Larry's night-guard shift through the 2006 film Night at the Museum as students watch.
Author EduPal Learning
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Tags Family Adventure, History, Cultural Heritage, Critical Thinking, Educational Resource
Nonfiction Text Features Posters | Ready-to-Print Anchor Charts
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Eight ready-to-print anchor-chart posters introduce nonfiction text features for classroom wall display.
Author Teacher's Clipart
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Tags Nonfiction, Features, Poster, Report, Non Fiction Text Structure Posters, Informational Text Features Posters
Nonfiction Text Structures Anchor Chart – Reading Set
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A nonfiction text-structures anchor chart defines five expository structures with their transition words and pairs a completed reference page with a matching fill-in-the-blank practice page.
Author First in Line
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Tags Nonfiction, Anchor Chart, Fill In The Blank, Text Structures Anchor Chart, Non Fiction Text Structure Worksheets, Text Structure Chart, Text, Text Structure
Note Taking and Summarizing Graphic Organizer
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Note Taking and Summarizing Graphic Organizer divides one page into Notes, Pictures, and Summary sections. Learners can capture key information in words, represent important ideas visually, and then condense the combined material in the summary space. The labeled sequence makes the relationship between gathering information and synthesizing it visible without prescribing a particular text or subject. Each area remains open enough to accommodate different amounts of written and visual information.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Note Taking, Summarizing, Story Summary Graphic Organizer, Writing A Summary Graphic Organizer, Summarizing Graphic Organizers, Graphic Organizer Notes, Note Graphic Organizer, Note Taking Organizer, Graphic Organizers For Note Taking
Note Taking Worksheet
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Note Taking provides three distinct spaces for processing information. The notes area holds key words or facts, the pictures area supports diagrams and visual reminders, and the summary section asks learners to condense what matters most. This progression can accompany a read-aloud, presentation, video, experiment, or independent text. Keeping raw notes separate from the summary helps students understand that summarizing requires selection and synthesis rather than copying every detail collected during learning.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Note Taking, Summarizing
Novel Study Worksheets - "Dolphins at Daybreak" - Magic Tree House
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Jack and Annie's ocean adventure in "Dolphins at Daybreak" becomes a post-reading novel study with setting questions, chapter-by-chapter summary boxes, a postcard-writing task, and an alternate-ending essay.
Author Learning with Alan
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Tags Novel Study, Books, Worksheets, Printable, Writing, Reading, Comprehension, Dolphins, Magic Tree House
Novel Study Worksheets - Good Morning, Gorillas - Magic Tree House
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Ten chapter-summary boxes for Mary Pope Osborne's "Good Morning, Gorillas", opening with where-and-when setting questions and closing with a postcard from the African Rainforest and an alternate-ending essay.
Author Learning with Alan
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Tags Novel Study, Worksheets, Gorillas, Magic Tree House, Africa, Reading, Writing, Activity, Comprehension, Printable
Nuclear Energy – Fission and Fusion - Digital Science Reading Article-Grades 5-7
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Nuclear fission and fusion are explained in a short nonfiction article covering power-plant operation, the two families of nuclear weapon, current applications and radioactive waste, followed by eight comprehension questions, two extension questions and a worked answers page.
Author Teach With Fergy
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Tags Nuclear Energy, Fission, Fusion, Science Curriculum, Disciplinary Literacy, Fission And Fusion Worksheet, Fission Vs Fusion Worksheet
Number Sequences Math Worksheet
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Students complete guided whole-number and decimal sequences, name the pattern rule, then create their own sequences from a given or chosen starting number.
Author Elementary Resources 4 U
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Tags Number Sequences, Number Patterns, Elementary Math, Partner Work, Skip Counting, Decimals, Number, Sequence, Sequencing
Open and Closed Syllables Worksheets in Spanish
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The set varies the response while maintaining one phonological contrast. Learners sort Spanish words into open- and closed-syllable groups, find examples inside lists, label individual words, and connect entries with the appropriate category. Later pages extend the same distinction into additional recognition and construction work. Accent marks and multisyllabic examples require attention to the actual syllable boundary rather than the final written letter alone.
Author Clever Crafters
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Tags Open And Closed Syllables Spanish, Sílabas Abiertas Y Cerradas, Spanish Phonics Worksheets, Spanish Reading Activities, Syllable Practice Spanish
Order of Operations Crossword Puzzles for 5th and 6th-Grade Math
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Four progressively harder crossword puzzles have students evaluate order-of-operations expressions -- with exponents, division, multiplication, and grouping symbols -- and fill each answer into the crossword grid, with a solution page for every level.
Author Matemaths
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Tags Matemaths, Order Of Operation, Crosswords, Puzzle
Order of Operations Mystery Picture Math Digital Activity
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Sixteen order-of-operations expressions using parentheses reveal a mystery picture as students solve them correctly in a self-checking online activity, with a matching printable version included.
Author Matemaths
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Tags Matemaths, Order Of Operations, Mystery Picture, Jigsaw Puzzle, Digital
Ordering Planets Worksheet
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Planet sequencing from the Sun is the central task across the usable worksheet layouts. The first two pages each state the same ordering direction in different worksheet layouts, providing space for learners to place or record the planets. A third page is included in the PDF, although its usable instructional text is not available in the page evidence. The supported task is therefore limited to arranging planet names or visuals by orbital position, without claiming a particular cut-and-paste component.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Space, Planets Worksheet Kindergarten
OREO Opinion Writing – Editable Graphic Organizer
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Two graphic-organizer layouts guide students through the OREO opinion-writing structure — stating an opinion, giving reasons and examples, then restating the opinion — available as a printable PDF or an editable Google Doc.
Author Roombop
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Tags Google Docs, Oreo Opinion, Opinion Graphic Organizer, Google, Oreo Opinion Writing Graphic Organizer, Oreo Opinion Writing Examples, Oreo Writing, Google Doc Graphic Organizer, Oreo Writing Template, Fillable Graphic Organizer, Opinion Writing Oreo
OREO Opinion Writing – 10 Graphic Organizers
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Opinion writing is scaffolded through five organizer types, each repeated in a second visual version. The OREO page separates opinion, reason, evidence or example, and restated opinion. Additional sheets compare pros with cons, sort facts from opinions, map an introduction with two supported reasons, and frame a concluding paragraph. Together, the sequence moves from idea evaluation to organized persuasive composition.
Author Cutie worksheets986
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Tags Opinion Writing, Persuasive Writing, OREO Writing Strategy, Writing Graphic Organizer, Paragraph Writing, Fact And Opinion, Pros And Cons, Writing Frames, Literacy Centers, Writing Activities
Ostrich Activity – Animal Diagram and Labeling
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An ostrich diagram labels six body parts — big eyes and eyelashes, a long bald neck, thick feathers with small wings, muscular legs, and split two-toed hooves — for students to explain their survival function.
Author Educational Voice
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Tags Ostrich Activity, Ostrich, Ostriches, Birds, Body Parts, Anatomy, Labeling, Life Science
Our Natural Resources Worksheet
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The page combines a vocabulary-matching task with an open environmental reflection. Learners connect several natural-resource types or categories to corresponding descriptions, building a foundation for distinguishing what each resource provides. They then write about ways climate change could affect natural resources, moving from definition work to applied reasoning. The listing describes the conceptual structure without reproducing the full matching pairs or prescribing a single response to the reflection.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Environments, Habitats And Biomes
Our Sun Worksheet
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Independent solar research is organized into clearly separated note categories. Learners record physical properties of the Sun in one section and its functions within the solar system in another, helping them distinguish what the Sun is like from what it does. A third area asks students to list the resources they consulted. The page does not supply facts, so its value lies in organizing sourced findings and keeping research categories separate.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Solar System, Space
Pacman Angles Activity
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Pacman Angles turns angle classification into a visual recognition task. Each character’s open mouth forms a different angle, and students decide whether it is acute, right, obtuse, straight, or another taught category based on its size and structure. The playful figures remove the need for measurement while still requiring comparison with benchmark angles. Teachers can ask learners to justify each classification by referencing ninety degrees or a straight line.
Author Educational Voice
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Tags Pacman Angles Activity, Angles Activity, Pacman Activity, Pacman Angles, Pacman, Angles, Angles Facts, Angles Facts For Kids, Math, Maths