5th Grade Common Core: L.5.4a

Your students can cut out the vocabulary word cards and definition cards to practice memorizing the definitions for each of them.

Andy can almost feel the first place medal around his neck, but when the last challenge of the field day is a hula hooping competition, Andy will learn what it means to be a true field day champion.

The last few chapters of Charlotte's Web has 10 vocabulary words for review, including: trembled, pompous, phenomenon, meekly, desolation, forlorn, and sentiments. Print and cut out the vocabulary cards to help study the words and definitions.

Challenge your students to find these vocabulary words in the book. They can use the Internet or a dictionary to define each.

Learn about Hudson's attempts to search for a northern passage to Asia.

Learn about a variety of invasive algae that is taking over sea floors and killing sea life.

These vocabulary cards review the words in chapters 5 and six, including: animosity, diligently, domain, barren, commendable, menacingly, and commerce.

A toucan's colorful bill is certainly beautiful, but did you know that it also helps the toucan in many ways?

Chapters 5 through 8 of Charlotte's Web has ten vocabulary words to review with these printable vocabulary cards. Print them on card stock paper or laminate them so they can be used over and over again.

Clockatoos are never late. They're almost always on time. But if they're tardy, it may mean their clocks have failed to chime.

Find definitions for these six challenging vocab words from the story.

Words on this worksheet include spectacle, sympathetic, droll, astonished, spar, amid, scarcely, and sulking.

Print out these vocabulary cards to practice the definitions for the words: sensation, remarks, exhibit, unforeseen, novelty, descriptive, and unique.

Vocabulary words for these chapters include oblige, seized, delicate, delectable, attire, idiosyncrasy, and destiny.

Learn interesting facts about opossums with this acrostic science poem.

Strolling through a garden in a late summer evening can bring pleasure to all five senses. In this story, the narrator describes the wonderful sounds, colorful sights, rich aromas, and delicious-tasting food around her.

Vocabulary words for these chapters include gnawing, objectionable, wits, scheming, hoisted, gratified, scruples, and hysterics.

A magical fairy is spotted dancing in the garden after a rain storm.

Learn about these white, furry hunters that make their home in the frozen tundra. You'll be amazed at the ways an arctic fox is adapted to live in its freezing environment.

Chapters 16 and 17 have fifteen vocabulary words to review definitions for, including: furrow, nonchalantly, disdainfully, indignantly, transfixed, and bellowed.

Learn about the four layers on the rainforest- the emergent layer, the canopy, the understory, and the floor.

This printable file has 30 cut-apart cards with words and definitions for the vocabulary words for chapters 1 through 4.

Students find and define these words from the book.

Words for these chapters include trembled, pompous, rapidly, ails, meekly, desolation, and forlorn.

Did you know that a seahorse can't swim well and it can actually die of exhaustion in rough water?  Learn many seahorse facts in this article.

Read the word cards and match the definition cards to the three vocabulary words in chapters 7 and 8, which include: chasms, harrowing, and ominously.

These unusual animals spend most of their lives at sea, but occasionally climb onto Pacific beaches for a period of rest and molting.

Have your students practice their vocabulary words from chapters 9 through 12 with these print-and-cut vocabulary cards.

Find and define these challenging vocab words from chapters 18, 19, and 20.

Students can research the definitions to these words from the book.

Vocab words on this printable include dignity, intention, outraged, neglected, protesting, consented, and ordinance.

Students can match the definition cards to the word cards in review for the vocabulary words in chapters 17 through 20.

Have your students review the ten vocabulary words in chapters one and two with these vocabulary cards.

Vocabulary words are used in a sentence. Below each sentence, define each word. Words include glutton, promptly, gaze, approached, and commotion.

A group of people stop for ice cream while waiting for a ferry to come. What happens when they stay at the ice cream shop too long?

A magical fairy disguises herself as a beggar to find an elf worthy of getting his wish granted. The task is harder than it appears. Will she be able to find a worthy elf? Comprehension questions and vocabulary words included.

Your class can cut out and review the vocabulary words from chapters 18, 19, and 20 with these vocabulary cards.

Discover how llamas are helpful to people by providing transportation, wool, and meat.  They also assist sheep dogs in herding sheep.

Students can practice the definitions for the words: outraged, intention, dignity, vigorously, protesting, neglected, consented, and ordinance.

The words on this worksheet include shrieking, nuisance, mischief, concerned, apparent, and corridor.

Words for this section of the book include fiercely, rejoiced, aloft, vanish, purebred, listless, scramble, and gorged.

Look out!  The world's second largest, and most ferocious shark may be swimming in an ocean near you.

Cut out the word and definition cards to review the meanings of the words: profusion, promontory, gallant, and lure.

Learn about the famous naturalist and artist, John James Audubon

Use these printable vocabulary cards to study the vocab. words from chapters 13-16, including: mercilessly, thrashing, monotonous, vaguely, snare, distinguish, and reputation.

Can you define these vocabulary words from the story?

Have students look up the meanings of these vocabulary words from the novel.

Vocabulary words on this printable include spattered, expanses, expedition, prospect, absent-minded, stout, pompous, and hastily.

Can your students find the definitions to these vocabulary words?

Define each of these vocabulary words. You may want to allow students to use the Internet or have them look up the words in a dictionary.

There are nearly a thousand different species of bat in the world today. Most eat insects or fruit, but there is one type- the vampire bat- that drinks blood.
(Approx. Grade Levels: 3-5)

These cut-apart vocabulary cards have 9 word cards and 9 definition cards for students to study from.

Discover the reasons animals migrate and read about the places they travel.

This is a cute poem about a spelling bee who can spell the name of all the flowers she visits.

The eight vocabulary word cards also have eight corresponding definition cards to use for reviewing the vocabulary words from chapters 1 through 4 of Charlotte's Web.

This short article highlights the achievements of Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree.

Jim describes the many fascinating duties of his job as a railway mechanic.

This printable file has 10 vocabulary word cards and definition cards that can be cut apart and used for practice.

Vocab on this worksheet includes exhibit, sensation, unforeseen, unique, descriptive, and remarks.

Vocabulary words for these chapters include noble, thrashing, vaguely, incessant, mercilessly, monotonous, and snare.

Find out why people play jokes and pull pranks on each other every April 1st.

Chapters 11 and 12 have six vocabulary words to review with these cut-apart cards. Students can match the definition to the word.

Charlie is the toughest girl in the fifth grade, but when she's dared to look into the "Wailing Well" and find out if a kid-hungry troll really lives there, she's afraid she'll lose her reputation. Charlie must find the courage to prove that some scary stories are just that--stories.  (fiction)

The vocabulary words for review in chapters 17-19 feature: fiercely, aloft, vanish, rejoiced, gorged, and listless. Use the printable vocabulary cards to help study the definitions of the words.