Fifth Grade

Fifth grade is the last year before middle school, and the best year to find out what your child can do alone. The workbooks on this shelf carry the basics; the novels are where the year actually happens. A fifth grader who reads Hatchet and then goes looking for Brian's Winter on their own has told you everything you need to know about next year.

How to use it: thirty minutes of math, thirty of language arts, science and social studies on alternate days, four days a week. Use the fifth day for a project or a long read. Pick one math book and finish it.

The whole year in one place: The Whole Year: 5th Grade.
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Story of the World, Volume 1 Tests and Answer Key

Susan Wise Bauer
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Story of the World, Text Bundle (Paperback, Revised Edition)

Susan Wise Bauer
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Student Workbook to the Story of the World, Volume 1: Ancient Times

Susan Wise Bauer
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Story of the World, Volume 4: The Modern Age (Revised Edition)

Susan Wise Bauer
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Story of the World, Volume 2: The Middle Ages

Susan Wise Bauer
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Astronomy for Curious Kids: An Illustrated Introduction to the Solar System, Our Galaxy, Space Travel--And More!

Giles Sparrow
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Psychology for Curious Kids: An Illustrated Introduction to Brain Science, Identity, Mental Health, and More!

Anna Claybourne
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My First Book about Genetics

Patricia J Wynne
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Biology for Curious Kids: Discover the Wondrous Living World!

Laura Baker
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Computer Science for Curious Kids: An Illustrated Introduction to Software Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Security--And More!

Chris Oxlade
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Money for Curious Kids: An Illustrated Introduction to Spending and Saving, Finance, Economics--And More!

Claudia Martin
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Chemistry for Curious Kids: An Illustrated Introduction to Atoms, Elements, Chemical Reactions, and More!

Lynn Huggins-Cooper
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My First Book about Backyard Nature: Ecology for Kids!

Patricia J Wynne
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Ibn Al-Haytham (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 3): The Man Who Discovered How We See

  • Physics & Energy
  • Human Body & Health
  • Biography / Memoir

Why it works: Ibn Al-Haytham follows a scholar in the Muslim golden age whose questions about light and sight changed how people understood vision. His experiments and reasoning make optics and the emerging scientific process the milestones of the biography.

Libby Romero National Geographic Kids
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Wildfires (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 3)

Kathy Furgang National Geographic Kids
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Maker Comics: Build a Robot!

  • Engineering & Technology
  • Physics & Energy
  • Comics / Graphic Narrative

Why it works: An evil-toaster comedy assigns the reader six increasingly varied robots to build while the comic plot promises world domination. Motors, alarms, lights, sensors, and remote control become the mechanisms of both the projects and the joke, so engineering is learned by making.

Colleen AF Venable
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Secret Coders: Robots & Repeats

Gene Luen Yang
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Albert Einstein (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 3)

  • Physics & Energy
  • Biography / Memoir

Why it works: Albert Einstein places the physicist's achievements and challenges along the arc of his life in a photo-rich National Geographic reader. Timelines, unusual facts, and a developing life story give young readers a human route into how major scientific work emerges.

Libby Romero National Geographic Kids