Fifth Grade Ela Word Meaning Worksheets

Does your fifth grader know how to spell Kwanzaa? What about Hanukkah? This challenging crossword will have him puzzling over all things winter.

If your 5th grade is crazy for crosswords, she'll be pleased with this offering.

Can you tell the difference between a simile and a metaphor? Help your star writer sort out her figurative language with a fun activity.

Your little reader is sure to enjoy this selection from the children's classic, "The Secret Garden." She'll build her vocabulary and reading skills.

Your child will love learning all about the exploits of the famous European explorer Marco Polo with this attractively illustrated worksheet.

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

Explore the special vocabulary that applies to the civil rights movement, both the one in our American history and those going on today.

Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.

Kids identify synonyms and antonyms in this silly worksheet.

This worksheet is a slam dunk for metaphors! Your young writer will learn what makes up a metaphor, and then practice making a few of her own.

Get ready for some wordplay! This homographs worksheet will help your child sort out those words that look alike but sound different and mean different things.

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

Kids identify and define word parts in this worksheet.

Give your 5th grader's vocabulary a boost while deepening his U.S. history knowledge with this social studies worksheet.

America gets its name from Amerigo Vespucci. Kids will learn about this important historical figure with this fun worksheet.

Kids can build their vocabulary and spelling skills with this worksheet. Your child will learn the definitions for vocabulary words and use them in context.

Help your writing sing with personification! Practice identifying the different examples of personification in these poems by Emily Dickinson.

The words indicated on this worksheet may sound and look the same, but they are "homonyms," meaning that they have different meanings. Double trouble!

Liberty is precious to humans and to horses. Your young student can read about Beauty's longing for liberty in this worksheet for "Black Beauty."

Young readers will enjoy this passage from Jack London's "All Gold Canyon." They'll complete some vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises too.

When your students complete this crossword puzzle they will be introduced to a variety of words that are commonly seen in 5th grade texts and basal readers.

Kids use grade-level words in sentences with this vocabulary worksheet.

Young historians will love learning facts about the famous Viking explorer Leif Ericson while practicing their reading comprehension and writing skills.

Beginning readers, enjoy this passage from Twain's classic "The Prince and the Pauper" and then complete some vocabulary and comprehension questions.