Year 5 English Printable Worksheets

This worksheet helps students differentiate between common homophones, enhancing their vocabulary, grammar, and writing skills. Through engaging activities, pupils will learn to choose the correct homophone in sentences, fill in blanks with appropriate words, and create their own sentences. Suitable for both classroom and home use, this worksheet offers a fun and interactive way to master homophones.

This worksheet helps students practise using quotation marks correctly in dialogue. Through engaging activities, pupils will learn to punctuate dialogue properly, enhancing their grammar and writing skills. Suitable for both classroom and home use, this worksheet offers a fun and interactive way to improve punctuation and dialogue writing.

This worksheet focuses on helping students correct common verb tense errors. By practising with these sentences, students will learn to identify and fix verb tense mistakes, enhancing their grammar skills and overall writing clarity. Suitable for both classroom and home use, this worksheet offers a fun and interactive approach to mastering verb tenses.

This worksheet helps students identify and correct common grammatical errors, providing a valuable opportunity to enhance their grammar and writing skills. Through a series of engaging activities, pupils will practise improving sentences and paragraphs, making their writing clearer and more accurate. Suitable for both classroom and home use, this worksheet offers a fun and interactive approach to developing strong writing habits. By mastering these essential skills, students will become more confident writers, capable of expressing their ideas effectively and correctly.

Use this handy worksheet to help your students understand and use ellipses effectively in their writing. Through engaging activities, pupils will learn how to use ellipses to create suspense, show hesitation, and omit unnecessary words. Suitable for both classroom and home use, this worksheet offers a fun and interactive way to enhance grammar and punctuation skills.

This fun and interactive worksheet helps students practise using colons to introduce lists. In the "Fun with Lists" activity, students match lists with the correct introductory sentences, reinforcing their understanding of how colons are used. The "Creative Writing" bonus activity encourages students to apply what they have learned by writing a paragraph about a day in their life, incorporating sentences with lists. Perfect for both classroom and home use, this worksheet supports the development of grammar and writing skills in an engaging way.

This engaging worksheet is designed to help KS2 students master the use of colons in lists. By practising with a variety of sentences, pupils will learn how to correctly use colons to introduce lists, improving their grammar and punctuation skills. Suitable for both classroom and home use, this worksheet offers a fun and interactive way for students to enhance their writing abilities. Through these exercises, students will become more confident in using colons, leading to clearer and more structured writing.

Using commasCommas can be a useful punctuation mark to make the meaning of sentences clear. My dog, Max, loves to play fetch in the park. Students rewrite the sentences adding the commas in the correct place.

Using dashesDashes can be a useful punctuation mark for adding emphasis or providing additional details within a sentence. My favourite subject – science – has always fascinated me. Students rewrite the sentences adding the dashes in the correct place. This worksheet can be used in the classroom or at home and includes an answer sheet for quick marking. 

Using bracketsBrackets are used to enclose information that is not essential to the main sentence. The information inside the brackets can provide additional details or clarification. Students are asked to add brackets where they think they should go in each sentence. An answer is included for quick marking. This KS2 grammar activity can be used in the classroom or at home and is a great introduction to using brackets in writing. 

Using modal verbs to show degrees of possibilityModal verbs can be used to express different degrees of certainty or likelihood in a statement. Modal verbs of possibility include: definitely, certainly, surely, maybe, clearly, obviously, perhaps, probably and undoubtedly. With this upper KS2 literacy activity, students are asked to underline the adverbs of possibility in each sentence.

Using adverbs to show degrees of possibilityAdverbs can be used to express different degrees of certainty or likelihood in a statement. Adverbs of possibility include: definitely, certainly, surely, maybe, clearly, obviously, perhaps, probably and undoubtedly. With this upper KS2 literacy activity, students are asked to underline the adverbs of possibility in each sentence.

Students read the letters in each Christmas bauble and write the 8-letter word correctly on the line.

This fun Halloween themed resource asks students to take a letter or combination of letters from each test tube to make a word. Some words are already in place to help them get started.

Conjunctive adverbs are used to connect sentences or independent clauses and show the relationship between them. This English resource asks students to choose the best conjunctive adverb to complete sentences.

The symbol (-) is called a hyphen in the English language. A hyphen is a short horizontal line used to link words together. Students read through sentences and write the word that is missing a hyphen.

Subordinating conjunctions are used to connect two simple sentences: a main clause and a subordinate clause. Subordinate clauses do not make sense on their own, they are dependent on the main clause. This English activity asks students to choose the best conjunction in brackets to complete the sentences.

Coordinating conjunctions are used to connect sentences, words and phrases. They act as a kind of glue, linking the text together to help the sentences flow smoothly. This English resource asks students to choose the best conjunction in brackets to complete the sentences.

Auxiliary verbs, or helping verbs, add meaning to the main verb of the sentence. This literacy resource asks students to complete sentences by adding auxiliary verbs.

This KS2 English resource focuses on the suffixes sion and tion in a cloze activity.

A year literacy worksheet on spatial prepositions.

A year 5 literacy resource on adjectives, verbs and nouns.

A kS2 literacy resource on adjectives, verbs and nouns.

A KS2 literacy resource on matching synonyms.

A KS2 literacy worksheet on choosing to, too or two.

A KS2 English resource on choosing to, too or two.

A KS2 English resource on abbreviations.

A year 5 English resource on dictionary abbreviations.

A KS2 literacy worksheet on homophones.

A primary English resource on collective nouns.

This KS2 literacy resource is all about words with silent letters.

A KS2 literacy resource about onomatopoeia.

A year 5 English resource on the prefixes 'mis' and 'ex'.

A year 5 literacy worksheet on the prefixes 'mis' and 'ex'.

A year 5 literacy resource on the suffixes 'ly' and 'able'.

A KS2 literacy resource on the suffixes 'ly' and 'able'.

A KS2 literacy resource on the suffixes 'ful' and 'less'.

A KS2 literacy resource on the suffixes 'ful' and 'less'.

A KS2 literacy resource on words with silent letters.

A KS2 English resource on the phonics 'ph' and 'th'.

A KS2 literacy resource on the phonics 'ph' and 'th'.

A KS2 English resource on abbreviations.

A year 5 literacy resource on choosing to, too or two.

Use to as a preposition before a noun or as an infinitive before a verb. Use too as a synonym for also or to indicate excessiveness before a verb. Use two to spell out the number 2. Students choose to, too or two to complete each sentence.

A KS2 English resource on writing it's or its to complete the sentences.

A year 5 English worksheet on writing its or it's.

A KS2 English resource on writing its or it's.

A year 5 English worksheet on matching the correct synonyms.