Students improve their communication and writing skills as they improve their vocabulary. The main focus in this helpful, reproducible resource is on identifying context clues to help them to better understand the correct definition of each word. It contains a variety of activities to stimulate interest and ensure that students can apply what they've just learned.

Reading comprehension and clear communication are marked by a strong vocabulary. Spectrum Vocabulary for grade 5 is a workbook packed with progressive lessons that help children learn words through word relationships, topic-specific vocabulary, and root and base words. Strong communication can be applied across disciplines, and is essential for success in and out of the classroom. Spectrum Vocabulary for grades 3-6 helps children systematically build their vocabulary while improving comprehension skills. This best-selling series teaches strategies for test success and helps children understand that words matter!

The Language in Context for Grade 5 Student Book and the Language in Context for Grade 5 Teacher Resource Book meet all the requirements of the new Grade 5 Language Syllabus and are written at a level that allows students to bridge from their vernacular to English. These books are also supported with 16 simple readers. This Teacher Resource Book expands on chapter topics from the Student Book with added information for teachers to plan units of work. It includes teaching and learning strategies, planning guidelines and assessment suggestions.

Common Core Connections: Language Arts is the perfect tool for helping fifth grade students master Common Core English and Language Arts skills. The Common Core Standards for English and Language Arts in fifth grade focus on many areas including: summarizing key details of different genres of literature, writing opinions and reporting on topics with a logical sequence of ideas, facts and details. This resource provides focused practice pages for targeting and reinforcing these and other fifth grade language arts skills while helping students connect comprehension with knowledge and application. Connecting the standards to content has never been easier with the Common Core Connections series for Language Arts. The Common Core Connections series provides teachers with the skill assessments to help determine individualized instruction needs. Focused, comprehensive practice pages and self-assessments guide students to reflection and exploration for deeper learning! Grade specific coherent content progresses in difficulty to achieve optimum fluency. It is also an ideal resource for differentiation and remediation. Each 96-page book includes an assessment test, test analysis, Common Core State Standards Alignment Matrix, and answer key.

Standards-based lessons show how vocabulary words presented in context help students learn how to use them accurately in their speech and writing.

This comprehensive teaching resource helps fifth grade students master the conventions of standard English and boosts their vocabulary acquisition. Easy-to-scaffold lessons are clearly organized by language skills and standards to help teachers target instruction. Language Fundamentals has 207 pages of skill-based activities, including 23 review pages with multiple choice, constructed response, and open-ended questions to assess students' understanding and application of the focus skill. Fifth grade skill practice covers: Nouns, Adjectives, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositions, Sentences, Capitalization, Abbreviations, Punctuation, Usage, and Vocabulary. Included are: Rules and examples for each language skill followed by targeted application activities and unit reviews. Vocabulary and word study strategies and practice for challenging skills such as shades of meaning and real-life connections between words and their use. Common Core Language Standards cited on activity pages for easy reference. Review activities that ask students to apply skills in context and demonstrate higher-level thinking. An easy-to-read answer key.

In Interactive Notebooks: Language Arts for fifth grade, students will complete hands-on activities about text structures, making predictions, editing and revising writing, conjunctions, figurative language, and more. The Interactive Notebooks series spans kindergarten to grade 5. Each 96-page book contains a guide for teachers who are new to interactive note taking, lesson plans and reproducibles for creating notebook pages on a variety of topics, and generic reproducibles for creating even more notebook pages. The books focus on grade-specific math or language arts skills and are aligned to current state standards.