5th Grade ELA Spiral Review | Daily Grammar & Language Warm Ups or Morning Work

This fifth grade language spiral review bundle for grammar, vocabulary, and editing will help build mastery with the foundational language arts concepts like parts of speech, prefixes, suffixes, figurative language, and editing.

So many students lack the basic grammar and editing skills needed to be successful with the 5th grade ELA standards, and there are so many standards it can be difficult to cover them all, fill in gaps, and support regular practice during the class time available.

Each week's work fits on a single piece of paper and builds on the same core skills throughout the week. By Friday, your students will have mastered the week's focus skills, meaning Friday's work can be used as an assessment with space available for guided support, reflection, corrections, and feedback for students and families.

Your download includes:

✔ 36 weeks (180 days) of standards-aligned spiraled language arts practice

• paper-saving weekly printables
• Google Slides

✔ At-a-glance scope & sequence for easy planning & prep

✔ Answer keys

✔Access to step-by-step directions for assigning in Google Classroom

PLEASE NOTE: DIGITAL ACCESS IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN THE BONUS FILE. After purchase, please download the bonus to access the link to the Google Slides.

This 5th Grade Daily Language Spiral Review includes:

1) Student-friendly formatting 

• 180 days of meaningful language arts practice
• Skills repeat in varied formats for the whole week to build confidence
• Weekly reflection to encourage goal setting and metacognition
• Provided as a 1-page printable each week or as daily Google Slides

2) Approachable practice with key grade-level language standards: 

• Parts of Speech - nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, & possessives
• Sentence Construction - subjects, predicates, compound sentences, run-on sentences, combining sentences, conjunctions
• Word Analysis - prefixes, suffixes, Greek & Latin roots, spelling patterns, vocabulary, syllabification, synonyms & antonyms, multiple-meaning words, and dictionary skills
• Figurative language - idioms, similes, metaphors, adages, proverbs, and analogies
• Editing for capitalization & punctuation - end of sentences, abbreviations, commas in a series, dialogue, direct address, titles of books & movies; proper nouns, etc.
• Revising for word choice, to add detail, show vs. tell, and combining or expanding sentences

4) Teacher support materials

• Scope & sequence
• Answer Keys for all problems
• Tips for preparation and implementation

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Benefits of the Language Spiral Format:

❑ Increase students' confidence with foundational language skills, editing & revising

❑ Build mastery of grade-level language standards in 10-15 minutes a day

❑ Identify misconceptions or skill gaps & address them quickly & effectively

❑ No prep paper-saving format fits on a single page & doesn't overwhelm students

❑ Encourages discussion about skills & strategies

Way to Incorporate this Language Spiral into your ELA Classroom

• Digital classrooms or for home learning

• Interactive whiteboard or projector during whole or small group writing instruction

• Morning work, a warm-up or bellringer

• Test prep

• Homework

Here's what teachers & homeschoolers say about this Language Spiral: 

♥  Can I just say WOW! This is such a great resource and it serves my writing class as a great bellringer and skills builder. It is interactive and allows the students to become more familiar with Google slides. Loving this and is worth every penny! - Alfonso M. 

♥ This is amazing! We have covered so many different topics already this year that it took forever to get to last year. Thank you! - Mary S.  

♥ Other morning work I have purchased takes my students too long to complete. My school serves breakfast, which takes some students a while to finish, and it always seems like I have a thousand things to do in the morning. I love how this resource offers the chance to review essential skills without taking 20 minutes. Thanks!!

- Hannah N. 

♥ This resource has been fantastic to use with my students in distance learning. I am so impressed with the formatting of the slides. I love how the concepts are reinforced M-F. I use these daily as warm-ups for ELA. They have also helped me identify some areas that my students needed more support in, such as understanding parts of speech, that I might not have known about had we not done these daily warm-ups. I will be using these with my class again next year even though we will be in person! – Nicole H.

♥ These are amazing! I started using them halfway through the year when I found this resource since my other daily entry wasn't working. It connects great with the growth mindset activities I've been starting to incorporate into the classroom! Thank you for this great, confidence-building activity for my students to engage in each day! :) - F.F.

♥ “I love this and have been using it all year, the students quickly fall into a routine and do the work. At the beginning of the week, I often explain what some of the questions are about, but that is teaching! I have planned my grammar unit around this resource so we are learning verbs etc when the daily work is asking us for it

– Kariann J.

♥ “This is a wonderful source that engages my students while slowly building from the activities prior. It breaks down the standards needed and it even provides a teacher outline so you can map out the future. I love this resource and would 10/10 recommend!!” - Amanda H.

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More Language Resources in the Daily ELA Line…

• Language Spiral Grade 2
• Language Spiral Grade 3
• Language Spiral Grade 4
• Language Spiral Grade 6

Other 5th Grade Language Arts Resources You Might Enjoy…

• Picture It! Comprehension Practice with Photographs
• Personal Narrative Writing Simplified
• 5th Grade Novel Units

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