Common Core Worksheets | 5th Grade Language

Sentence Patterns: Combining Sentences

Students can sometimes improve their writing by making simple changes, including combining sentences. This activity provides practice on this.

Sentence Patterns: Dependent Clauses

This writing worksheet sentence patterns and dependent clauses. Students work on improving their writing by exploring ways to vary their writing.

Sentence Patterns: Prepositional Phrases

This writing worksheet provides students with practice varying sentence patterns to improve their writing. Focus: prepositional phrases.

Sentence Patterns: Sentence Openers

Sentence openers are always troublesome for students, and many resort to using all too common introductions. This worksheet helps them to develop more interesting and effective ways to open a sentence!

Sentence Patterns: Varying Dialogue

This activity provides students with practice writing dialog and how different placements of speec tags affect the sentence.

Simile Assortment Worksheet

Here’s a worksheet that explores different ways to write a simile for the same thing.

Spelling Rules: Adding SION

We add the suffix -sion to a word to make it into a noun. Often writers are confused as to when they should add -sion or -tion. With this helpful worksheet on spelling rules, students will be asked to add -sion to each given word in order to change its meaning.

Spelling Rules: Adding TION

We add the suffix -tion to a word to make it into a noun. Often writers are confused as to when they should add -tion or -sion. With this helpful worksheet on spelling rules, students will be asked to add -tion to each given word in order to change its meaning.

Spelling Rules: Words Ending in ARY

Use this worksheet to better understand how to use each of these suffixes: -ery, -ary, -ory. This is great for educational use at home and in the classroom!

Spelling Rules: Words Ending in ARY, ERY, and ARY

Use this worksheet to better understand how to use each of these suffixes: -ery, -ary, -ory. This is great for educational use at home and in the classroom!

Spelling Rules: Words Ending in ERY

Use this worksheet to better understand how to use each of these suffixes: -ery, -ary, -ory. This is great for educational use at home and in the classroom!

Spelling Rules: Words Ending in ORY

Use this worksheet to better understand how to use each of these suffixes: -ery, -ary, -ory. This is great for educational use at home and in the classroom!

Spelling Rules: Words with ABLE

Often writers are confused as to when they should add -able or -ible. Use this helpful worksheet to better understand which suffix is correct.

Spelling Rules: Words with IBLE

Often writers are confused as to when they should add -able or -ible. Use this helpful worksheet to better understand which suffix is correct.

Spot It: Unnecessary Words

Practice identifying unnecessary words with this printable worksheet on editing and proofing. Students will be asked to read through a series of sentences and circle the ones that contain unnecessary words. This activity is great for use both at home and in the classroom.

Spot It! Faulty Coordination

Help your students with their reading and writing skills by using this printable activity in class. With this worksheet on editing and proofing, students will be asked to read through ten sentences and identify the ones that contain faulty coordination. Ideal for 5th – 8th grade, but can be used where appropriate.

Spot the Prepositional Phrases

In this printable prepositions worksheet for 4th – 5th grade, students will be asked to circle the prepositional phrase in each sentence. This is great practice for both at home and in the classroom. To start practicing prepositions, download and print the worksheet by clicking the link below.