5th Grade Vocabulary Worksheets
Synonyms, antonyms, word parts, and words with more than one meaning. These are the vocabulary skills we cover at the 5th grade level. Every sheet prints as a PDF with its answer key, and no two prints are the same.
Vocabulary skills for 5th grade
- Context Clues Choose the word · answer key The sentence around a hard word usually hides its meaning. Read past the word, find the clue, then decide: The arid desert had not seen rain for months, so arid must mean very dry.
- Greek and Latin Roots Choose the word · answer key Old Greek and Latin word parts hide inside big English words: tele means far, so telescope, telephone, and television all reach across distance.
- Personification and Hyperbole Sorting · answer key Personification gives human actions to things: the wind whispered. Hyperbole exaggerates on purpose: I've told you a million times.
- Similes and Metaphors Sorting · answer key A simile compares with like or as: brave as a lion. A metaphor says one thing IS another: the classroom was a zoo.
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