A Smarter Balanced (CAASPP / SBAC) 5th grade ELA practice test workbook for teachers, with a pretest, skill practice for all 24 standards, mixed review and 2 full-length practice tests. Answer key included, so test prep is ready to go.

This writing tweets activity has kids read a bird feeder how-to text and answer fun prompt cards. Made for 3rd to 5th grade, with an answer key included for the practice page.

This take note writing activity has 3rd to 5th grade students sort print and digital sources, research a state with question cards, and take notes in their own words. Answer key included.

Students hunt for U.S. government facts with this digital dilemma research activity for 3rd to 5th grade, checking each answer in a website and a book. An answer key is included.

Using this Help From Other Author's Activity helps, students collect story elements from literary or informational texts to write their own story.

This write all about it newspaper writing activity turns 3rd to 5th grade students into reporters with topic cards, a planner, and a front page template. Answer key included.

Using W.5.3 Fifth Grade Common Core Lesson, students write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

Use this explain it all informative explanatory writing activity to help 3rd to 5th grade students plan and write clear fact-based pieces. Answer key included for easy checking.

Using W.5.1 Fifth Grade Common Core Lesson, students write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.

Using W.5.5 Fifth Grade Common Core Lesson, students develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.

Use this get ready to write activity with 3rd to 5th grade writers. Kids pick a topic card, plan with a simple planner, and write; an answer key is included.

Using W.5.2 Fifth Grade Common Core Lesson, students write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas andinformation clearly.

This Now Presenting - Report on a Topic Activity is a fun way for students to learn about Summarizing and presentations!

Using this Look in the Text Activity, students ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

Using this Get to the Point PowerPoint Activity, students learn to include multimedia components such as graphics, sounds, and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.

Using Enhancing My Presentation Activity, students add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations to enhance the development of main ideas.

Using W.5.4 Fifth Grade Common Core Lesson, studentsproduce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

This Author At Work Writing Checklist Activity lets 3rd to 5th grade students sort writing cards by type and check their own writing with clear checklists. Answer key included for easy review.

Using W.5.6 Fifth Grade Common Core Lesson, students use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others.

Using W.5.7 Common Core Activity, students conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.