5th grade vocabulary worksheets
Synonyms, antonyms, word parts, and words with more than one meaning. Every vocabulary skill we teach at 5th grade, one to a page. Each prints as a PDF with its answer key, and no two prints are the same.
Vocabulary skills for 5th grade
- Analogies Choose the word · answer key An analogy is a word puzzle in two pairs: work out how the first pair fits together, then finish the second pair the very same way.
- 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.
- Multiple-meaning words Choose the word · answer key Some words carry more than one meaning: a bat flies at night, and a bat hits a baseball. The rest of the sentence tells you which meaning is on duty.
- 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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