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5th Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 2

Science fair project that examines albedo, and how this information is applied in the design of cars, sportswear, and other items. Which colors reflect light?

Albedo

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Barack Obama Crossword and Trivia

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Write a Thanksgiving Day Poem

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

Make a Sequence Sandwich!

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

Find the Gist: A Textbook Study Strategy

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Take Action Like Greta

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

History Scavenger Hunt

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

Play Mood Charades!

Have your child make a giant red poppy out of tissue paper in remembrance of the brave soldiers who served, especially those who died serving their countries.

Remembrance Poppy

Science fair project which evaluates different athletic shoes in order to find out whether any of them affect a person's ability to run.

Speedy Shoes

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

A Malala-Inspired Activity: Listicle Blog Posts

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

Build Vocabulary by Breaking it Down!

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

Famous African-Americans in History

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

"Bump!" A Spelling Game

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

Book Through the Summer

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

Social Media Book Review

This science project teaches students about organic farming and the benefits and disadvantages of commercial plant food.

Giant Plants! Do Plants Need Commercial Food?

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

Make a City Guide For Kids!

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Root Out the Meaning of Words

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

Write an Art Project Proposal

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Sensory Poem: Halloween

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

Write a Thanksgiving Proclamation!

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

Fact or Inference? Learn the Difference

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

Make a Progress Portfolio

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

Fishing for Headlines

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

Action! Make Movies as you Read

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

You're on the Air! Write a Commercial

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

Write a "Christmas Carol" Tale

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Before and After Halloween Acrostic

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

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