5th Grade Independent Work Packet (by date, latest first)

These are fun drawing prompts that will ignite creative thinking and there are a variety of creative challenges. Each prompt has a written and visual challenge (view preview for examples).

Included in this resource:

• 35 Drawing Prompts
• Cover Page

What are some benefits to using drawing prompts?

• Encourages Creativity
• Improves Visual-Spatial Skills
• Improves Fine Motor Skills
• Boosts Problem-Solving Skills
• Enhances Focus and Patience
• Promotes Personal Expression
• Builds Confidence

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Engage your students year-round with our captivating "Fun Holiday-Themed Activities Bundle! - Social Studies | U.S. & World History!" This comprehensive collection currently features 20 best-selling activities designed to infuse your social studies curriculum with excitement and fun across various seasons and holidays. Check out what's included below!

Back to School

• Blobs and Line - Classroom Icebreaker Activity
• Four Corners - Classroom Icebreaker Activity
• Would You Rather - Classroom Icebreaker Activity

Halloween

• Frighteningly Famous! - Historical Biography Project
• Historic Headstone! - Social Studies Stations Activity

Thanksgiving

• Feasting with Famous Figures - Thanksgiving Holiday Project
• History of Thanksgiving - Crossword & Word Search Worksheets

Christmas / Winter

• History in a Snow Globe - Social Studies Activity
• The History Elf Project - Winter - Holiday - Christmas - Social Studies Activity
• Winter Holidays - Christmas - Hanukkah - Kwanzaa - Crossword & Word Search
• Guess The Wishlist - Holiday - Christmas - History - Who Am I? Stations Activity

Black History Month

• Martin Luther King, Jr. and The Civil Rights Movement - Crossword & Word Search
• The Civil Rights Movement - U.S. History Vocabulary Crossword & Word Search
• The Civil Rights Movement - Funko Pop Biography Project

Valentine's Day

• Mystery History Date - Valentine's Day - Fun Social Studies Research Activity
• Historical Heartthrobs! Valentines from Famous Figures | Social Studies Activity
• History of Valentine's Day Reading Comprehension & Questions - Holiday Activity
• Valentine's Day Crossword Puzzle & Word Search Activity - Holiday - Winter

Spring Break / Summer / End of Year

• Draw Your Own Sandcastle! Spring Break | Summer | End of the Year Activity
• Biography on a Beach Ball! - End of the Year | Spring Break | Summer Activity

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Save time and money with this amazing bundle of over 30 interactive and engaging activities, designed to enhance your world history classroom! This package helps supplement your existing curriculum, lessons and units, covering key periods from The Middle Ages to The Renaissance, as well as World Religions, and provides a rich variety of learning tools to captivate your students and deepen their understanding of history.

Topics covered in this bundle:

1. The Middle Ages
2. World Religions
3. Chinese History
4. The Renaissance
5. The Protestant Reformation
6. Vocabulary Review
7. Projects and Activities for any unit!

Product Overview: This bundle includes a wide variety of activities to suit different learning styles and classroom needs:

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• Detailed Teacher Guides: Easy-to-follow guides for smooth lesson implementation.
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Bring world history to life and save time with this ultimate yearlong bundle! This comprehensive collection includes over 125 engaging activities covering major historical periods, from Prehistory, Ancient Civilizations, and the Middle Ages to World War II and the 21st Century. Designed for middle school, high school, and homeschool students, this bundle provides an extensive range of resources to enhance your world history curriculum, making history interactive, fun, and memorable.

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• Reading Comprehension Worksheets: This is a new product line, currently covering key historical periods from Prehistory to Ancient Greece, with more added throughout the year!
• Interactive Reading Lessons: Explore historical events and figures with guided questions and in-depth analysis.
• Worksheets & Notes: Perfect for classwork, homework, and review.
• Projects & Research Assignments: Encourage deep dives into specific historical topics, fostering critical thinking.
• Crossword Puzzles & Word Searches: Fun ways to reinforce vocabulary and key historical concepts.
• Classroom Games: Make history fun with interactive activities that engage all learners.
• Teacher Guides & Answer Keys: Detailed guides, rubrics, and answer keys for easy lesson planning and grading.

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Stay tuned for even more resources added throughout the year as the reading comprehension series continues to expand. Check out the previews to see how these activities can enrich your classroom today!

Transform your classroom into a medieval adventure with a beachy twist! This engaging and interactive activity is perfect for the days leading up to spring or summer break, capturing students' imaginations while reinforcing their creativity and understanding of history.

What's Included:

• Sandy Strongholds Reading Passage: Delve into the world of medieval castles with this light reading passage that covers everything from the purpose of castles to the different parts of a castle, including moats, drawbridges, towers, and battlements. Engaging language and illustrations make learning fun and accessible for all students.
• Draw Your Sand Castle: Let creativity soar as students design their own medieval sand castles on a beach-themed background. Encourage them to incorporate elements they've learned about from the reading passages, fostering critical thinking and imaginative expression.

Simply print and distribute the sheets to your students, and watch as they embark on a medieval journey filled with learning and creativity. Use as a standalone activity or as part of a larger unit on medieval history or architecture!

Fall themed social emotional resources for your students. Students will get to color in the traits they believe represents them and name things they are grateful for. Resource comes in colored and black/white versions.

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Pet loss is hard for anyone, especially younger children. Help them cope with their loss with this activity book. Great for individual sessions.

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Adorable back to school dinosaur themed activity pages. Allows students to think about their goals and aspirations for the new school year, brainstorm how they can be stellar students, rules they think they should follow in order to be a good student, and an opportunity to share a little bit about themselves. Students will have fun writing and coloring. Enjoy!

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Who said talking about worries has to be scary? This workbook will allow your students to personify their worries thus making it less scary to think and talk about.

Seven interactive activities for students to engage with.

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Alphabetical affirmations coloring book for young children. 26 pages filled with different affirmations representing different abilities and ethnicities.

Resource will encourage young children to have positive self talk, self worth, and self esteem.

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The end of the school year is quickly approaching! Your students will love reflecting on this past year with this end of the year workbook.

Six interactive pages where students will get to draw their favorite memories, write their goals for the upcoming school year, create a summer bucket list, and the opportunity to write a thank you letter to their teacher.

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Growth mindset coloring and activity pages with a superhero theme. Great for small groups, individual sessions, or quiet centers.

Answers to superhero riddles:

1. Venom

2. Spiderman

3. Cyborg

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Looking for resources on friendship? This could be for you. Hands on, interactive workbooks with no prep. Just print and go! Resource includes different activities that get students thinking about what kinds of qualities they look for in a friend, how they can be a better friend, and what kind of rules and boundaries they'd like in their friendship groups.

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As the school year is ramping up, so is the drama. I've had a lot of different cliques express the same issues; gossip, miscommunication, and misunderstandings. I decided to create some worksheets that can help lead the discussion on how to deal with friendship drama.

Resource includes a true and false section, scenarios they can relate to, the do's and don'ts of drama, and a chance for them to spill their drama to the llama.

Resource comes in color and black/white versions.

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Prepare your 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade students for STAAR success featuring 65 passages, 15 skills, 5 genres, revising and editing, and short constructed responses in one spot! Topics include main idea and details, inference, author's purpose, context clues, plot, and more!

This print-and-go resource covers fiction, poetry, informational,  drama, and argumentative genres.

➡️ Why You Will Love

⭐STAAR rigor activities that are planned and prepped so you get your planning time back!

⭐Flexible Format to integrate into any curriculum. 

⭐Variety of activities to differentiate to help you reach every learner in your classroom.

➡️ Skills Included

• Author's Purpose
• Author's Voice
• Character Relationships
• Context Clues
• Elements of Plot
• Figurative Language
• Inference
• Main Idea and Supporting Details
• Making Connections
• Paraphrase and Summarize
• Point of View
• Print & Graphic Features
• Setting
• Text Structure
• Theme

➡️ Genres Addressed

• Fiction
• Poetry
• Informational
• Drama
• Argumentative

*Note: Plot elements, character relationships, setting influence, point of view, and figurative language are not tested in informational and argumentative texts_._

➡️ What’s Included in each passage

• Comprehension Questions
• Short Constructed Response
• Revising and Editing
• Answer Key

➡️ How to Use

• Small Group Intervention
• Independent Practice
• Stations
• Formative Assessments
• Sub Plans

Help your students feel confident and prepared for STAAR with this all-in-one resource!

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➡️ ADDITIONAL SUPPORTS

Mini-Lessons

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Short and Extended Constructed Responses

Prepare 3rd-5th graders for STAAR with this setting influence resource! Includes fiction, poetry, drama, STAAR questions, SCR, and revising and editing tasks. Great for RTI, stations, or independent work.

➡️ Why You Will Love

⭐A resource that is planned and prepped so you get your planning time back!

⭐Science of reading-aligned strategies for students to apply to their reading.

⭐Flexible Format to integrate into any curriculum. 

⭐Supports differentiation to reach all your students.

➡️ What’s Included

• 3 Engaging Passage Types: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

• Comprehension Questions

• Short Constructed Response Prompts

• Revising and Editing Practice

• Answer Key

➡️ Suggested Classroom Uses

• Literacy Centers or Stations

• Small Group

• Independent Practice

• Partner Work

• Homework

Help your students feel confident and prepared for STAAR with this all-in-one resource!

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➡️ Additional Supports

Mini-Lessons

Activity Packs

STAAR Prep

Short and Extended Constructed Responses

Prepare 3rd-5th graders for STAAR with this point of view resource! Includes revising and editing tasks, fiction, poetry, informational, drama, argumentative texts, STAAR questions, and SCR.

➡️ Why You Will Love

⭐A resource that is planned and prepped so you get your planning time back!

⭐Science of reading-aligned strategies for students to apply to their reading.

⭐Flexible Format to integrate into any curriculum. 

⭐Supports differentiation to reach all your students.

➡️ What’s Included

• 5 Engaging Passage Types: Fiction, Poetry, Informational, Drama, and Argumentative

• Comprehension Questions

• Short Constructed Response Prompts

• Revising and Editing Practice

• Answer Key

➡️ Suggested Classroom Uses

• Literacy Centers or Stations

• Small Group

• Independent Practice

• Partner Work

• Homework

Help your students feel confident and prepared for STAAR with this all-in-one resource!

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➡️ Additional Supports

Mini-Lessons

Activity Packs

STAAR Prep

Short and Extended Constructed Responses

Prepare 3rd-5th graders for STAAR with this story plot elements resource! Includes revising and editing tasks, fiction, poetry, and drama texts, STAAR questions, and SCR. Great for RTI, stations, or independent work.

➡️ Why You Will Love

⭐A resource that is planned and prepped so you get your planning time back!

⭐Science of reading-aligned strategies for students to apply to their reading.

⭐Flexible Format to integrate into any curriculum. 

⭐Supports differentiation to reach all your students.

➡️ What’s Included

• 3 Engaging Passage Types: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama,

• Comprehension Questions

• Short Constructed Response Prompts

• Revising and Editing Practice

• Answer Key

➡️ Suggested Classroom Uses

• Literacy Centers or Stations

• Small Group

• Independent Practice

• Partner Work

• Homework

Help your students feel confident and prepared for STAAR with this all-in-one resource!

➡️ LET’S CONNECT

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➡️ Additional Supports

Mini-Lessons

Activity Packs

STAAR Prep

Short and Extended Constructed Responses

Prepare 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders for ELA STAAR with this figurative language resource! Includes revising and editing tasks, fiction, poetry, drama texts, STAAR questions, and SCR. Great for RTI, stations, or independent work.

➡️ Why You Will Love

⭐A resource that is planned and prepped so you get your planning time back!

⭐Science of reading-aligned strategies for students to apply to their reading.

⭐Flexible Format to integrate into any curriculum. 

⭐Supports differentiation to reach all your students.

➡️ What’s Included

• 3 Engaging Passage Types: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

• Comprehension Questions

• Short Constructed Response Prompts

• Revising and Editing Practice

• Answer Key

➡️ Suggested Classroom Uses

• Literacy Centers or Stations

• Small Group

• Independent Practice

• Partner Work

• Homework

Help your students feel confident and prepared for STAAR with this all-in-one resource!

➡️ LET’S CONNECT

FollowELA Vibes to get updates on new resources!

➡️ Additional Supports

Mini-Lessons

Activity Packs

STAAR Prep

Short and Extended Constructed Responses

Prepare 3rd-5th graders for STAAR with this central main idea and details resource! Includes revising and editing tasks, fiction, poetry, informational, drama, argumentative texts, STAAR questions, and SCR. Great for RTI, stations, or independent work.

➡️ Why You Will Love

⭐A resource that is planned and prepped so you get your planning time back!

⭐Science of reading-aligned strategies for students to apply to their reading.

⭐Flexible Format to integrate into any curriculum. 

⭐Supports differentiation to reach all your students.

➡️ What’s Included

• 5 Engaging Passage Types: Fiction, Poetry, Informational, Drama, and Argumentative

• Comprehension Questions

• Short Constructed Response Prompts

• Revising and Editing Practice

• Answer Key

➡️ Suggested Classroom Uses

• Literacy Centers or Stations

• Small Group

• Independent Practice

• Partner Work

• Homework

Help your students feel confident and prepared for STAAR with this all-in-one resource!

➡️ LET’S CONNECT

FollowELA Vibes to get updates on new resources!

➡️ Additional Supports

Mini-Lessons

Activity Packs

STAAR Prep

Short and Extended Constructed Responses