Grade 5 Interactive Websites

*** Language Arts ***

Theme 1: Finding a Way

Plot: Conflict and Resolution
Sentences: Complete, Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, Exclamatory, Interjections

  • Punctuation Paintball - Pick a level. Click on the correct punctuation then click on the part of the sentence that needs changing and fire!
  • Sentence Clubhouse Choose the correct punctuation and correct the sentence
  • What is a sentence?- Divide passages into sentences
  • Sentence Sort - Select the correct type of sentences; simple, compound, or complex
  • Sentence Structure - Select correct sentence structure that is underlined in the sentences.

Character's Motives

  • Similarities and Differences in Characters- Determine what makes characters alike
  • Character Traits- Determine what the character will do based on a short passage

Subjects and Predicates, Complete and Simple Subjects and Predicates

  • Subject and Predicate Review- This is a game to help review the difference between complete subjects/predicates, simple subjects/predicates, and compound subjects/predicates

Theme 2: Common Goals

Sentences: See Above
Sequence

  • Sequencing Fun - Many to select from
  • Dr. Stripp - Reading Ring - Put the comic strips in sequence, then answer questions about the comic strip
  • Subject and Predicate: See Above

Theme 3: Go with the Flow

Compare and Contrast

  • Compare/ contrast- interactive whiteboard activities (skip introduction; click on compare and contrast activities)
  • Dig It! - interactive story predicting the outcome

Singular and Plural Nouns

  • Plural Girls- Type in correct plural form of words
  • Fish Tanks- Type in the correct plural form of the word

Common and Proper Nouns

  • Rats!- Catch the correct type of nouns in a basket
  • Noun Dunk- Decide if the word is a common or proper noun or not a noun

Possessive Nouns

  • Possessives and Reflexive Pronouns Quiz - online graded quiz
  • Harcourt School Quiz- Possessive Noun
  • Softschool- Possessive Noun Quiz

Pronouns and Antecedent

  • Pronoun Clubhouse- Choose the correct pronoun to replace the noun
  • Personal Pronouns Game- 3 levels of activities
  • Grammar Blast!- Pronouns

Theme 4: Dare to Be Great

Making Inferences/Drawing Conclusions

  • Drawing Conclusions - Read the story and choose correct answer
  • Iditarod Dream
  • Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
  • Sarah, Plain and Tall
  • Seventh Grade
  • The Case of the Shining Blue Planet
  • The Cricket in Times Square
  • The Fun They Had
  • We'll Never Forget You, Roberto Clemente
  • Theme Park Favorites- Draw conclusions about theme parks by analyzing data in tables and graphs.

Subjective and Objective Pronouns

  • Quiz
  • Pronoun Fair

Possessive and Reflective Pronouns

  • Go for Grammar Gold
  • Quiz
  • Practice 1

Theme

  • determine if piece is best associated with setting, theme or plot

Adjectives and Articles

  • Rats! Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Grammar Blast!
  • Easy Articles
  • A or An
  • A, An, The or Nothing
  • A, An, The or Nothing
  • A, An or Nothing
  • A or An
  • Easy to Medium
  • Famous People (Article Quiz)
  • Difficult
  • Articles - Health Clubs

Main and Helping Verbs

  • Verb Phrases - Find the complete verb phrase
  • Linking Verbs - Identify types of verbs in this online quiz
  • To Be - Present and past tense online quiz
  • Be - Verb usage online quiz
  • Irregular Verbs - Jeopardy type game for two players

Theme 5: Making a Difference

Author's Purpose

  • Game
  • Activity
  • Quiz
  • Author's Purpose PreTest
  • Author's Purpose PostTest

Literary Devices (Reading Rocket and Test Tutor from Harcourt)

  • My Side of the Mountain - Literary Devices: Figurative Language
  • My Side of the Mountain - Literary Devices: Point of View
  • The Summer of the Swans - Literary Devices: Point of View
  • Trapped by the Ice! - Literary Devices: Figurative Language

Answering Questions
Action and Linking Verbs

  • Quia

Verbs: Present Tense, Past Tense, Future Tense

  • Simple Present Tense
  • Helping Verb Test

Forms of Be

  • 2Bee or NottooBee
  • The Verb 'to be'
  • Am, Is or Are

Irregular Verbs

  • Quia Game: Irregular Verbs I Play this game by yourself or with a partner and test your knowledge of irregular verbs
  • Quia Game: Irregular Verbs II Try these Flashcard and Concentration games to learn more about irregular verbs
  • Go for a Grammar Gold Play this quiz and try to get a grammar gol

Perfect Tense

  • Say What?- quizzes
  • Present Perfect
  • What have they just done? Present Perfect
  • Quia- Present Perfect

Subject and Verb agreement

  • Quia
  • Treasure Hunt- BBC Skillwise
  • Quiz- BBC Skillwise

Theme 6: Feats of Daring
Summarize and Paraphrase (Reading Rocket and Test Tutor from Harcourt)

  • Black Frontiers
  • Flood
  • Flood: Wrestling with the Mississippi
  • Folk Tales from Asia
  • How to Babysit an Orangutan
  • I'm in Charge of Celebrations
  • Look to the North: A Wolf Pup Diary
  • Nights of the Pufflings
  • Old Yeller
  • Papa Tells Chita a Story
  • Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
  • Woodsong
  • Anthony Reynoso: Born to Rope
  • Black Frontiers - Summarize and Paraphrase
  • Flood: Wrestling with the Mississippi - Summarize and Paraphrase
  • Folktales from Asia - Summarize and Paraphrase

Fact and Opinion (Reading Rocket and Test Tutor from Harcourt)

  • Boom Town
  • CyberSurfer
  • Dive! My Adventures in the Deep Frontier

Irregular Verbs- see above
Contractions

  • Contraction Games Play these contraction games
  • Concentration/Matching Learn contractions while playing the Matching or Concentration game
  • Go For Grammar Gold Read the explanation of contractions and negatives, then try the interactive quiz
  • A Bed Full of Cats interactive quiz
  • Fly By Game Test your knowledge of contractions with this interactive game

Adverbs

  • Adjectives/Adverbs - Change adjectives into adverbs in this online quiz
  • Quia: Adverb Battleship Game
  • Quia: Rags to Riches