Less than $5 5th Grade Test Preparation Activities (by date, latest first)

Ready to get your students moving and learning with an engaging, exciting, and all-around fun vocabulary review game that is sure to become a class favorite? Then, The Fly Swatter Game is right for you! Students compete to swat the fly with the word that matches the definition they are given. Multiple formats (project-to-board/screen or print options) and multiple game modes keep this game fresh and exciting. It's engaging, it's intense, but most of all, it's loads of fun that will have your students wanting to play again and again!

Use this game to review key terms relating to any subject area!

What’s Included:

• PowerPoint version of game board and instructions to be projected to a board, wall, or screen
• Larger flies that can be printed and cut out to use around your entire classroom
• Teacher instructions
• Student Study List for terms and definitions
• Teacher Vocabulary Call List to be used during gameplay

Fly swatters not included (I found cheap ones at the local dollar store!), but you can always have students use their hands or create their own fly swatters from paper!

Need a no prep math game for your 4th grade number and shape patterns (4.OA.5) math center?

Your 4th graders will love these number and shape pattern puzzle games! These math puzzles make a perfect no prep game or math center to practice pattern skills.

What's Included:

• 3 Unique Puzzle Pictures: Each with differentiated math problems (Color & B/W)
• 3 Levels of Difficulty: Easy, Medium (4th grade), and Hard
• Answer Sheets: Differentiated for each puzzle
• Reusable Puzzle Instructions: Perfect for centers
• Student Work Page: For easy use
• Full Answer Keys: Included

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How to Play:

• Students will receive a page of puzzle pieces with math review questions on the back. They will also receive an "Answer Sheet" that lists all of the answers to their puzzle pieces.
• Students solve the math problem on the puzzle piece. They find the matching answer on their "Answer Sheet" and glue the puzzle piece in place.
• Students can color the mystery picture once they have solved and placed all math puzzle pieces.

How to Use:

• Math centers
• Small group instruction
• Fast finishers
• Independent time
• Group math games
• Differentiated Instruction

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Need an engaging geometry unit review for your 4th graders?

These 4 geometry unit color by number code worksheets are the perfect, no prep solution! Color by number code worksheet activities will make your 4th grade geometry unit review sessions both effective and enjoyable while costing you no additional prep time.

What’s Included:

• 4 unique color by number code pages (each targeting a different 4th grade math skill listed below).
• 4 student work pages to pair with the color by number page.
• Complete picture and number answer keys.

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Skills Covered:

• Lines (4.G.1)
• Classifying Triangles (4.G.2)
• Classifying Quadrilaterals (4.G.2)
• Lines of Symmetry (4.G.3)

Best Used For:

• No Prep Sub Plans
• Hands-On Math Centers
• Fast Finishers
• Test Preparation and Review
• Morning Work
• Independent Work
• And so much more!

These color by number activities keep your students engaged and excited about math while saving you precious time. They are a perfect addition to any 4th grade classroom!

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Master Present Tense with Low-Prep, Engaging Grammar Lessons – For All Learners!

Perfect for Grades 1-5, this print-and-go resource helps both native English speakers and ESL/EAL learners confidently master Present Simple and Continuous Tenses. With clear explanations and interactive exercises, it’s ideal for teachers seeking a time-saving, curriculum-aligned solution that supports independent learning.

What’s Included?

✏️ Print Materials: Worksheets, Answer Keys

**What’s Inside?
**✔️ Present Simple & Continuous Explanations

✔️ Verb Agreement Exercises

✔️ Fill-in-the-Blanks Activities

✔️ Sentence Reordering Tasks

✔️ Negative & Interrogative Practice

✔️ Present Simple vs. Continuous Comparisons

✔️ Quizzes 
✔️ Answer Keys

**
Why Teachers Love It:**

✏️ No Prep

✏️ Classroom-Tested

✏️ Versatile Resource
✏️ Aligned with Common Core, TEKS, and UK National Curriculum

When to Use:

✅ Grammar Lessons
✅ Independent Practice
✅ Literacy Centers
✅ Homework
✅ Early Finishers
✅ Sub Plans

Skills Focused:

✔️ Present Simple & Continuous Usage
✔️ Subject-Verb Agreement
✔️ Sentence Construction
✔️ Negative & Interrogative Forms
✔️ Editing & Self-Assessment
✔️ Independent Grammar Mastery

Curriculum Alignment

**
Common Core State Standards (CCSS)**

• L.1.1-L.5.1: Master English grammar and verb tense consistency.
• L.1.3-L.5.3: Use conventions to enhance meaning.
• W.1.5-W.5.5: Revise and edit for clarity and tense accuracy.

**
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)**

§110.3-§110.7 (Grades 1-5):

• • Develop and revise drafts with consistent verb tense.
  • Apply proper grammar and verb usage in writing and speech.

**
UK National Curriculum (Years 1-5)**

• Writing Composition: Plan and draft using correct present tense.
• Grammar and Punctuation: Use present simple and continuous accurately.
• Reading Comprehension: Analyze how tense affects meaning.

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✅ Builds Mastery
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Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to introduce yourself to your new students? Our editable Meet the Teacher Trivia Game is the perfect solution! This interactive activity is designed to help students learn about their teacher while fostering a positive and welcoming classroom atmosphere.

Key Features:

• Customizable Questions: Tailor the trivia questions to your personal interests and experiences, making the game more relevant and engaging for your students.
• Flexible Formats: Choose between a whole class 4 Corners format or individual Google Classroom assignments to accommodate different learning styles and classroom settings.
• Easy to Use: Our user-friendly template allows you to quickly customize the questions and answers, making it simple to prepare for your class.
• Educational Value: This activity helps students learn about their teacher while practicing critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

How to Play:

1. Choose a Format: Select either the whole class 4 Corners format or the individual Google Classroom assignment.
2. Customize Questions: Replace the placeholder questions with your own, ensuring they are age-appropriate and interesting.
3. Play the Game: Follow the instructions for your chosen format to conduct the trivia game.
4. Review Answers: After the game, review the correct answers and discuss any interesting facts or stories that came up.

Benefits:

• Builds Classroom Community: This activity helps students get to know their teacher and each other, creating a more positive and inclusive classroom environment.
• Enhances Engagement: The interactive nature of the game keeps students engaged and motivated to learn.
• Promotes Critical Thinking: Students must analyze and evaluate information to answer the trivia questions, developing important critical thinking skills.
• Personalizes Learning: By customizing the questions, you can make the learning experience more relevant and meaningful for your students.

Download our Editable Meet the Teacher Trivia Game today and start creating a fun and engaging learning environment!

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Figurative Speech Sorting Worksheets - Enhance your students' understanding of figurative language with engaging sorting activities. Identify metaphors, similes, personification, and more. Boost comprehension, creativity, and critical thinking skills.

Benefits of Figurative Speech Sorting Worksheets for Students:

• Improved Comprehension: Identifying figurative speech helps students understand deeper meanings and nuances in texts.
• Enhanced Creativity: Exposure to figurative language inspires creative expression and imaginative writing.
• Strengthened Critical Thinking: Analyzing figurative devices encourages students to think critically and analyze language.
• Vocabulary Expansion: Students learn new words and phrases through figurative language.
• Fun and Engaging Learning: Sorting activities make learning enjoyable and interactive.

By incorporating figurative speech sorting worksheets into your lessons, you can effectively enhance your students' language skills and foster a love of learning.

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This hands-on activity offers several advantages for students learning about states and capitals:

1. Active Learning: Students are actively engaged in the learning process by matching states to their capitals and gluing them. This physical interaction helps reinforce memory.
2. Visual Aid: The flip-up format provides a visual cue that aids recall. Students can easily see the state and flip it over to check their answer.
3. Self-Assessment: The activity allows students to self-assess their knowledge. They can immediately see if they've answered correctly or incorrectly.
4. Practice and Reinforcement: Repeated practice with the flashcards helps solidify the information in students' minds.
5. Independent Learning: Students can use the flashcards independently, making it a great tool for homework or review.
6. Fun and Engaging: The interactive nature of the activity can make learning about states and capitals more enjoyable and less intimidating.

By combining these benefits, the "Flip & Learn States and Capitals" activity can be a valuable tool for students to effectively learn and remember important geographic information.

Teach Test-Taking Strategies for Elementary Students and Minimize Test Anxiety with this Comprehensive Guide! Perfect for Teachers, Educators, and Counselors needing test anxiety activities, state testing encouragement, or motivational testing notes for students.

Get ready to lead your students to success on test day with this all-in-one packet that includes a plethora of activities to help your students cope with test anxiety and learn valuable test-taking tips and tricks.

This download features a mission-based approach to learning where students will embark on Mission: Test-Taking Success and master the skills, strategies, and habits needed to succeed on test day.

Here’s what’s in the download:

• MISSION: Test-Taking Success Social Story (step by step description of what to do on test day that shows students an action plan for success)
• MISSION: Test-Taking Success Poster Set (each step of the story in poster form, clearly outlines an action plan for the students)
• MISSION: Test-Taking Success Foldable and/or Cut & Glue Activity (interactive, engaging, hands-on activity for students that teaches an action plan for how to have test day success)
• “How to Keep a Superhero Mindset” Managing Anxiety Poster Set (teaches calm down strategies students can use on test day if anxiety or stress starts to take over)
• Managing Test Anxiety Foldable and/or Cut & Glue Activity
• Self Evaluation Quiz
• Five Types of Test Questions Poster Set (explanation and tips for different types of test questions such as multiple-choice, true or false, fill in the blank, essay, and matching
• Motivational Testing Notes for Students, Six Types (drop these cards off to students who need a little motivation or leave a note on each student's desk the morning of a test. Get creative and have fun with these sweet and inspiring notes!)

Save on prep and planning time with this all-inclusive packet that will help you teach test-taking strategies to your elementary school students. Use the included guide to decide which pages to print, prep the listed materials, and start sharing your test anxiety tips with students.

Included in this download are all components needed for students to create an action plan on how to successfully complete MISSION: Test-Taking Success. From the Mission: Test-Taking Success Social Story, the poster set, foldable and/or cut & glue activity, to managing test anxiety and a self-evaluation quiz, this packet has everything you need to help your students succeed.

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Visual learners delight with these character analysis graphic organizers! Help students uncover and focus on important character traits for writing and visualizing fiction and non-fiction characters. Includes critical thinking, problem solving, research skills, and test prep concepts. Includes: 3 Character Analysis sheets with traits boxes graphic organizers Background Profile graphic organizer Personal Profile graphic organizer Historical Info graphic organizer Character Road Map with directions 3 Road Map Symbols handouts Easy and fun to use with individuals and small/whole groups for analysis, close reading, building characters, and test prep in English, literature, and history classes for at-risk, GT, Pre-AP, AP, homeschool, etc...

Move your mastery meter from "empty" to "full" as you use the chart to find expert peer tutors in your class. By the end of the semester, students' skills will improve through the use of peer tutoring. Easy to follow directions with lined chart.

Need experts to deliver content for your lesson plans? Look no further than your own students! Let students be "Experts of the Day" through the "Share Your Knowledge" presentation. Complete with: instructions guidelines scoring rubric hand-out/sign-up sheets Everything needed to let students become the experts in for your lesson plans!

Get students thinking about test taking tips and strategies for being successful on that important day! This 20 page, critical thinking, emotional intelligence handout packet comes with boy and girl images, and it includes: --no facial expressions so students can fill these in --coloring images --emotional intelligence questions such as: eating a good breakfast and plan your menu be on time find a comfortable chair and desk stress meter following directions pace yourself don't rush (acrostic poem) stay focused check your answers find something fun to do after the test Students practice listing, peer group cooperative activity, fill in answers, etc... Great way to reinforce being mentally and physically ready for Testing Day!

Instill a love of learning and a growth mindset in students with this creatively designed coloring book! This 30-page digital download features unique growth mindset quotes embedded into artful imagery perfect for coloring.

Filled with inspirational sayings like "Challenges help me grow," "I can do hard things," and "My effort leads to success," this coloring book promotes a positive mindset around effort, persistence, and viewing challenges as opportunities to learn.

Designed for elementary students but suitable for any age, this coloring book is ideal for:

*Morning work or bell ringers to set an intention for the day

*"Brain breaks" to reset focus during testing days

*Counseling and SEL lessons on mindfulness and resilience

*Independent art time when students need self-directed activities

With thought-provoking quotes and space for students to add their own creative color, this growth mindset coloring book is perfect for classrooms, counseling offices, intervention services, and more!

Turn classroom review into an interactive throwdown!

Throwdown Cards are a dynamic and fun way to assess student understanding and promote active participation in your small group sessions. This set of playing cards replaces traditional answer sheets with an engaging twist!

Here's How It Works:

1. Review Previously Taught Skills
2. Pose a Multiple Choice Question
3. Throwdown Time! Students Throw Down Their Card
4. Defend Your Choice
5. Question Review

Benefits of Throwdown Cards:

• Multiple Formats: Choose to use Throwdown Cards in Small Group at Teacher Table, in Workshop Stations, or make a class set for whole-class review!
• Engaging and Interactive: Move away from passive note-taking and transform review into a game-like activity.
• Immediate Feedback: See student understanding at a glance with the "throw down" motion.
• Promotes Discussion: Encourage healthy debate and peer-to-peer learning as students defend their answers.
• Boosts Confidence: Students are more likely to participate when answers are hidden initially.
• Versatile Use: Adaptable to various subjects, grade levels, and question formats (multiple choice, true/false, etc.).

Make learning an active adventure! Add Throwdown Cards to your classroom toolkit today!

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Prepare for the 5th grade Science EOG with this set of engaging and hands-on Task Cards. This resource aligns with 5th Grade North Carolina SCOS Science Standards (implemented Fall 2024).

What's included?

• 24 printable task cards
• Recording sheet
• Answer Key
• Google Form version of Task Cards (completely editable and grades immediately out of 100)

In this activity, they will review...

• Weather
• Ecosystems
• Human Body Systems
• Genetics
• Force and Motion
• Water Cycle
• Properties of Matter

Many different ways to use this in your classroom!

• Use as a center
• Test prep/EOG review
• Display in hallway for an engaging and active activity
• Use with a board game
• Play a game with the whole class
• Play SCOOT
• Use for early finisher work
• Virtual/Distance Learning

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Prepare for the 5th grade Science EOG with this set of engaging and hands-on Task Cards. This resource aligns with 5th Grade North Carolina SCOS Science Standards (implemented Fall 2024).

What's included?

• 24 printable task cards
• Recording sheet
• Answer Key
• Google Form version of Task Cards (completely editable and grades immediately out of 100)

In this activity, they will review...

• Weather
• Ecosystems
• Human Body Systems
• Genetics
• Force and Motion
• Water Cycle
• Properties of Matter

Many different ways to use this in your classroom!

• Use as a center
• Test prep/EOG review
• Display in hallway for an engaging and active activity
• Use with a board game
• Play a game with the whole class
• Play SCOOT
• Use for early finisher work
• Virtual/Distance Learning

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Prepare for the 5th grade Science EOG with this set of engaging and hands-on Task Cards. This resource aligns with 5th Grade North Carolina SCOS Science Standards (implemented Fall 2024).

What's included?

• 24 printable task cards
• Recording sheet
• Answer Key
• Google Form version of Task Cards (completely editable and grades immediately out of 100)

In this activity, they will review...

• Weather
• Ecosystems
• Human Body Systems
• Genetics
• Force and Motion
• Water Cycle
• Properties of Matter

Many different ways to use this in your classroom!

• Use as a center
• Test prep/EOG review
• Display in hallway for an engaging and active activity
• Use with a board game
• Play a game with the whole class
• Play SCOOT
• Use for early finisher work
• Virtual/Distance Learning

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Looking for a fun way to help your students master Inherited Traits and Acquired Traits? Look no further! Start off with a 25 Google Slide presentation covering definitions and examples, perfect for a whole group lesson! Then have your students practice with an 8 question vocabulary sort and 15 question Google Slides drag and drop sorting activity that can be easily uploaded into Google Classroom or printed to use with journals in a cut and glue activity. Lastly, check your student's understanding with a 20 question Google Form quiz! This resource follows NC Standard Course of Study Science Standard LS.5.3.2

What's included:

• 25 Google Slides presentation covering definitions and examples
• 8 question vocabulary scramble activity with definition page (printable and digital)
• 15 question Google Slides drag and drop activity (printable and digital)
• 20 question Google Form quick check assessment

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Are you looking for a resource that covers NC Science Standard LS.5.3- Heredity and Genetics? Look no further! This set of engaging and hands-on Task Cards was created to help your 5th graders prepare for the NC Science EOG with 24 different multiple choice word problems! This resource aligns with North Carolina Standard Course of Study Science Standard LS.5.3

What's included?

• 24 printable task cards
• Recording sheet
• Answer Key
• Google Form version of Task Cards (completely editable and grades immediately out of 100)

Many different ways to use this in your classroom!

• Use as a center
• Test prep/EOG review
• Display in hallway for an engaging and active activity
• Use with a board game
• Play a game with the whole class
• Play SCOOT
• Use for early finisher work
• Virtual/Distance Learning
• Summer School Review

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Are you looking for a resource that covers NC Science Standard PS.5.2- Motion and Stability- Forces and Interactions? Look no further! This set of engaging and hands-on Task Cards was created to help your 5th graders prepare for the NC Science EOG with 24 different multiple choice word problems! This resource aligns with North Carolina Standard Course of Study Science Standard PS.5.2

What's included?

• 24 printable task cards
• Recording sheet
• Answer Key
• Google Form version of Task Cards (completely editable and grades immediately out of 100)

Many different ways to use this in your classroom!

• Use as a center
• Test prep/EOG review
• Display in hallway for an engaging and active activity
• Use with a board game
• Play a game with the whole class
• Play SCOOT
• Use for early finisher work
• Virtual/Distance Learning
• Summer School Review

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