5th grade Texas curriculum
What 5th grade students practice in Gradelings, unit by unit, matched to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). Tap any unit to see what it covers and try sample questions.
Math
- DecimalsTenths, hundredths and thousandths
- MultiplyMultiply up to three digits
- DivideShare, group and handle remainders
- Unlike DenominatorsAdd fractions with different bottoms
- Prime Factor TreesBreak numbers into primes
- Expressions & EquationsLetters stand for numbers
- Patterns & EquationsPattern rules and mystery numbers
- Parentheses & ExpressionsBrackets first!
- Volume of BoxesCubes, layers and l × w × h
- Area & PerimeterMeasure inside and around shapes
- Parallel Lines and QuadrilateralsSort four-sided shapes
- Converting UnitsInches to feet, grams to kilograms
- Coordinate GridPlot points (x, y)
- Fractions Times & DividedWhole numbers and unit fractions
- Taxes, Pay & BudgetsTaxes, net pay, payments and budgets
English Language Arts(“Language Arts” in the app)
- Plot and ConflictHow stories rise and fall
- Figurative LanguageSimiles, metaphors, idioms and more
- Purpose and StructureWhy and how authors write
- Context CluesCrack the meaning of new words
- Greek and Latin RootsWord parts that unlock meaning
- Complex SentencesClauses and conjunctions
- Punctuation PowerCommas, colons and apostrophes
- Media SmartsSee through persuasive ads
- Create With Words, Pictures and SoundChoose fonts, images and modes for your audience
- Research ReadyQuestions, sources, notes and credit
- Spelling SmartsSuffixes and words to know
- Adages, Puns & PersuasionOld sayings, wordplay, and why writers use hyperbole, stereotypes and anecdotes.
- Sound Changes & Word Partsselect → selection, music → musician, plus trans-, super-, -ive, -logy, geo and photo.
Science
- Solutions & MixturesDissolving and separating mixtures
- Measuring MatterMass, volume, density and particles
- Solid, Liquid, GasMass, volume and particles
- Forces, Friction and MachinesPushes, pulls and rubbing surfaces
- Forms of EnergyEnergy changes form
- LightSources, shadows, reflection and refraction
- Weather and the Water CycleWhat makes the weather change
- The Rock CycleIgneous, sedimentary and metamorphic
- Habitats & CommunitiesHomes for living things and what limits them
- Adaptations & HabitatsHow plants and animals survive where they live
- Circuits at WorkWhat a circuit needs, and how electricity becomes light, sound, heat and motion.
- Protecting ResourcesDesign solutions that cut the environmental impact of using natural resources.
- Spinning Earth, Moving ShadowsEarth's spin makes day and night and moves shadows across the ground.
- Deltas, Canyons & DunesHow wind, water and ice build and carve landforms.
- Born Knowing or Learned?Instinctive and learned behaviors, and structures that help animals survive.
Social Studies
- The Thirteen ColoniesNew England, Middle and Southern colonies
- Colonial Trade & WorkResources, trade and choices
- Road to RevolutionTaxes, protests and Patriots
- The American RevolutionIndependence and the war
- Building a GovernmentArticles, Constitution and Bill of Rights
- States & CapitalsFind the capital of every state
- History DetectiveSources, timelines and evidence
- A Growing NationThe War of 1812, the Louisiana Purchase and westward growth
- Civil War & ReconstructionA divided nation, freedom and rebuilding
- America in the 20th & 21st CenturiesWorld wars, civil rights and the space age
- Symbols, Rights & CitizensLandmarks, the Bill of Rights and taking part
- Free Enterprise & WorkHow Americans make, sell and earn
- Mapping the United StatesRegions, landforms, rivers and cities
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