5th Grade Lesson Plans
78 ready-to-teach plans for 5th grade, each with a timed sequence and the printable pages that go with it. Free to read and print.
Fifth grade is preparation for middle school. Independence matters as much as content: planning, checking work, and supporting an answer with evidence.
Fifth grade math is the last stop before middle school: operations with fractions and decimals, volume, coordinate graphing, and order of operations that will carry straight into algebra.
Place Value & Rounding6 practice pages
Addition Subtraction6 practice pages
Multiplication & Division6 practice pages
Order of Operations (PEMDAS)6 practice pages
Integers6 practice pages
Fraction Addition & Subtraction6 practice pages
Fraction Multiplication & Division6 practice pages
Converting Fractions & Mixed Numbers6 practice pages
Fractions Decimals6 practice pages
Decimal Addition & Subtraction6 practice pages
Decimals Multiplication6 practice pages
Decimals Division6 practice pages
Reading
Fifth grade reading expects evidence for everything. Theme, point of view, figurative language, and synthesising information across several texts.
Leveled Stories5 practice pages
Children's Stories6 practice pages
Fables6 practice pages
Comprehension Exercises6 practice pages
Context Clues6 practice pages
Cause and Effect6 practice pages
Compare and Contrast6 practice pages- Fact Fiction2 practice pages
- Fact Opinion2 practice pages
Main Idea and Details6 practice pages- Sequencing2 practice pages
Story Elements6 practice pages
Grammar
Fifth grade grammar is editing. Perfect tenses, correlative conjunctions, and the habit of finding your own errors before a reader does.
Verbs6 practice pages
Pronouns6 practice pages
Adjectives Adverbs6 practice pages
Parts of Speech6 practice pages
Sentences6 practice pages
Punctuation6 practice pages
Narrative Writing6 practice pages
Opinion Writing6 practice pages
Informative Writing6 practice pages
Writing Topics6 practice pages
Idioms3 practice pages
Proverbs5 practice pages
Vocabulary
Vocabulary grows fastest when students meet a word several times in different contexts. The plans below pair direct teaching with practice that reuses the word.
Science
Science at this level is observation before explanation. Each plan opens with something to notice and only names the vocabulary once students have seen the thing it describes.
What is in every 5th grade lesson plan
- A real objective
- Written as what students will be able to do, tied to the standard the practice pages are built against.
- A timed sequence
- Warm-up, modeling, guided practice, independent work and a close, with minutes on each step so it fits a real block.
- A check for understanding
- One concrete way to find out who has it and who needs it retaught, before you move on.
- Matching practice pages
- Two to six printables chosen to match the independent-practice step, not a random grab from the library.