Back to School ELA Review for 5th Grade | 20 Daily Lessons

Start the year with a focused 5th Grade Back to School ELA Review! Designed to revisit essential Grade 4 reading, grammar, vocabulary, word study, and writing skills, this resource gives students 20 structured daily lessons plus 16 print-and-play literacy games. The predictable routine helps fifth graders refresh key skills, build confidence, and prepare for Grade 5 learning.

Each daily lesson follows the same student-friendly structure: Read & Think, Language & Grammar, Word Work, and Write About It. Students read short fiction, nonfiction, and persuasive passages, answer comprehension questions, review essential language skills, strengthen vocabulary and morphology, and complete a connected writing task. Each lesson takes approximately 15–25 minutes.

The resource includes 20 daily ELA review lessons, a 70-page Student Workbook, 40 pages of daily lessons, four comprehension questions per passage, inference and text evidence practice, grammar review, advanced prefixes and suffixes, Greek and Latin roots, daily writing prompts, 16 print-and-play literacy games, a complete Answer Key, Teacher Guide, 20-day pacing overview, four-week planning guide, differentiation suggestions, progress-monitoring tools, family letter, student reflection, and Reading Star Award.

Students revisit essential Grade 4 comprehension skills including main idea and summary, theme, character analysis, setting and mood, plot and conflict, inference, cause and effect, compare and contrast, author’s purpose and claim, point of view, text structure, claim and evidence, text features, summarizing, citing text evidence, drawing conclusions, and making connections.

Grammar and language practice includes simple, compound, and complex sentences; fragments and run-ons; subject-verb agreement; perfect verb tenses; pronoun-antecedent agreement; prepositional phrases; conjunctions; commas; appositives; dialogue punctuation; relative pronouns; apostrophes; misplaced modifiers; capitalization; editing; and precise word choice.

Vocabulary and word study strengthen advanced prefixes and suffixes, Greek and Latin roots, context clues, synonyms, homographs, homophones, connotation, shades of meaning, analogies, figurative language, and academic vocabulary.

The 16 included literacy games add engaging partner, small-group, and center practice. Activities include Sentence Type Sort, Root Word Match, Synonym Match, Roll-a-Root Word, Academic Vocabulary BINGO, Multisyllable Roll & Read, Prefix Sort, Antonym Match, Reading Road Race, Main Idea Baskets, Connotation Sort, Sentence Building Tiles, Fix-It Cards, Sequence Cards, Homophone Match, and Figurative Language Sort.

Perfect for fifth grade morning work, back-to-school ELA review, Grade 4 skills review, literacy centers, reading comprehension practice, grammar review, vocabulary development, intervention, homework, early finishers, or beginning-of-year formative assessment.

Give students a confident, structured start to fifth grade with 20 days of meaningful ELA review plus 16 engaging literacy games!