10 free vocabulary resources for 5th Grade: 10 worksheets. Answers included.
Word meanings, synonyms, antonyms and word building. 5th grade brings fractions with different denominators, decimals, factors and multiples, written multiplication and division, and problem solving across several steps.
Students will practice: recognizing the meaning of common prefixes; building words with suffixes; applying spelling changes when adding suffixes; working out word meanings from their parts; knowing common Latin and Greek roots; using roots to work out word meanings; building word families from a root; knowing that English borrows words from other languages.
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Students learn that a prefix is added to the start of a word to change its meaning (un-, re-, pre-, mis-, sub-, dis-) and a suffix is…
Students discover that many English words grow from Latin and Greek roots, such as struct (build), rupt (break) and aud (hear), and that…
Students learn to work out the meaning of an unfamiliar word from the words around it. They use four kinds of context clue (a definition,…
Add a prefix to the start of a word and work out how the prefix changes the meaning (un- = not, re- = again, dis- = not, pre- = before,…
Choose the word that means the same (synonym) or the opposite (antonym) to build vocabulary. Starts with the most common words and the…
Add a prefix to the start of a word and work out how the prefix changes the meaning (un- = not, re- = again, dis- = not, pre- = before,…
Choose the word that means the same (synonym) or the opposite (antonym) to build vocabulary. Expected-level practice with the main…
Add a prefix to the start of a word and work out how the prefix changes the meaning (un- = not, re- = again, dis- = not, pre- = before,…
Choose the word that means the same (synonym) or the opposite (antonym) to build vocabulary. A challenge set with trickier and irregular…
Choose the word that means the same (synonym) or the opposite (antonym) to build vocabulary. A challenge set with trickier and irregular…
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Word meanings, synonyms, antonyms and word building. At 5th Grade, our resources focus on: recognizing the meaning of common prefixes; building words with suffixes; applying spelling changes when adding suffixes; working out word meanings from their parts.
Start with the Level 1 or Level 2 worksheet, then move up a level. Finish with the topic test if there is one.
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