Fifth graders are on the brink of adolescence. They are curious, capable, and ready to tackle the world. With that in mind, we’ve gathered together learning links and fun activities that will help them build skills in literacy, math, science, and social studies—plus some just for fun! This list of 5th grade websites and activities is something kids can easily do at home with their families.

The purpose of the video lesson is to review how to give and receive effective feedback. The accompanying handout provides an outline of the important things to remember when giving and receiving feedback. The attached self-evaluation has students think about the feedback that they give and also how they seek and react to feedback for themselves.

The purpose of the video lesson is to review how to use a thesaurus.

The purpose of the video lesson is to review the effective characteristics of reading aloud. The accompanying handout provides a synopsis of the important things to remember to be a good oral reader. The attached self-assessment has students think about the quality of their oral reading and set goals.

The purpose of the video lesson is to review effective strategies for identifying unknown words. The accompanying handout provides a list of word attack strategies for helping with determining the meaning of unfamiliar words.

The purpose of the video lesson is to review the steps in creating a bibliography. The accompanying handout provides an outline for writing a bibliography and an opportunity to write a bibliography as practice. It also gives an online link for doing research and writing bibliographies. The attached self-evaluation includes a checklist that requires students to reflect on their experience with writing a bibliography .

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the reading strategy of determining importance.

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the reading strategy of evaluating and brings all of the reading strategies together.

The purpose of the video lesson is to outline effective reading strategies that good readers use. They include: predicting, making connections, visualizing, monitoring your own comprehension, determining importance, making inferences, questioning, summarizing and synthesizing.

The purpose of the video lesson is to review the making connections reading strategies, including text-to-self , text-to-text, text-to-world connections.

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the reading strategy of making inferences. The accompanying handouts (1)give scenarios that students make inferences from and (2)has students identify details or facts from the reading and the inferences that can be made from the detail or fact.

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the strategies for monitoring comprehension. The accompanying handout provides a "Fix-Up Strategies Bookmark".

The purpose of the video lesson is to give examples of mysterious riddles as models for students to write some of their own. The accompanying handout provides an mysterious riddle example and asks students to create some of their own to share.

The purpose of the video lesson is to outline effective techniques for making predictions while you read. Predicting strategies include:
-First Lines
-Anticipation Guide
-DRTA (Directed Reading Thinking Activity)

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the reading strategy of questioning. It outlines the types of questions ("in the book questions": right there, think-search-find and "in my head questions": author and me, on my own). The accompanying handouts outline the types of questions and before-during-after questions/prompts.

The purpose of the video lesson is to review effective sentences techniques for mystery story writing. The accompanying handout provides a synopsis of these sentence techniques.

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the reading strategy of summarizing. It gives the rules for summarizing that students can follow. The accompanying handout requires students to practice summarizing with the "Sum It Up" strategy and can be used with any text.

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the reading strategy of synthesizing. The accompanying handout has students practice the strategy of synthesizing.

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the reading strategy of visualization. The accompanying handout outlines the strategy and gives the opportunity for students to practice.

This handout provides helpful hints that students can use to increase their oral reading fluency.