⭐️ Imagine your 5th grade students coming to class and getting right to their reading comprehension ELA morning work. Great for: Bell ringers, homework, and fun daily practice of essential reading comprehension skills. ✨ Specific ELA themes for EACH day make it quick and easy for you to build a foundation in your classroom! ✨
❤️ You will love this morning work because it will help you:
✨ establish an effective routine
✨ consistently cover critical content
✨ engage your students in a positive learning environment
✨ Short & Sweet, BUT Rigorous ✨
This morning work will help you consistently focus on critical content and build a routine for you and your students. Because the morning work is short and sweet but a rigorous daily review, it really maximizes those first few minutes so that you can set a peacefully productive tone for your day.
✅ This yearlong bundle of morning work includes:
- 11 months of morning work (August - June)
- 4-5 weeks for each month
- daily themes
- printable pdfs (one week per page copied front to back)
- Google Slides (each week is in one presentation)
- Self-grading Google Forms
⛅️ Daily Themes ⛅️
Daily themes help you consistently cover critical content AND keep your students engaged.
✏️ Meaningful Monday: Monday is focused on making meaning. Tasks will focus on synonyms, antonyms, vocabulary words, context clues, and making meaning in a short amount of text. Some tasks may require students to make meaning in the text (inference, message, adages, proverbs, etc) or build vocabulary skills.
✏️ Text Structure Tuesday: Tuesdays will have a paragraph that requires students to identify the text structure, signal words, and a question or two related to main idea, author's perspective, or vocabulary.
✏️ Wordy Wednesday: Wednesday is all about working with words. Tasks include working with shades of meaning, homophones, or a short writing task using pictures or a word bank.
✏️ Throwback Thursday: Thursday is all about grammar usage and conventions.
✏️ Figurative Friday: Figurative Friday tasks include working with various types of figurative language including similes, metaphors, idioms, and more!
✅ Looking for a way to assess the skills covered?
The weekly assessments are a companion for the morning work and align directly with the skills covered throughout the week. These are sold separately or in the morning work + weekly assessment bundle.
✅ Looking for MATH morning work?
Do your students tend to forget previously taught concepts? The math morning work helps your students continuously review critical content like multiplication, division, fractions, place value, and more! Click the links below to check out the bundles:
- 5th Grade ELA + Math Morning Work Bundle
- 5th Grade Math Morning Work Bundle
- 5th Grade Math Morning Work + Weekly Assessments
- 5th Grade ELA + Math Morning Work + Weekly Assessments
❤️ Here's what other teachers are saying about the morning work:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "I LOVE the spiral review that this product provides for my students. The chunking of skills practice by each weekday makes the tasks seem manageable for struggling students. I am so glad I purchased this product!" - Ashley S.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "This resource made my mornings go by so smooth. The kids knew what to do as soon as they entered the room." - Brittani
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "As an experienced educator, I've come across numerous teacher resources, but few have impressed me as much as this one. This comprehensive toolkit is a game-changer for any teacher looking to enhance their classroom instruction." - Ima
✅ Looking for another grade level?
The morning work/daily review is available for ELA in Grades 1-10 and Math for Grades 1-6. ⭐️ Click here to shop the morning work and daily review for Grades 1-10
ELA: 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th-10th
Math: 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th
Weekly Assessments: ELA | Math | ELA + Math Bundles: shop here
💛 Are you a member of the TLL Membership? These materials are already included. If you are not a member, click here to learn more. The TLL Membership gives you an all-access pass to hundreds of ELA resources for teachers in Grades 3-5.
I hope this resource works for you! You can contact us at help@theliteracyloft.com.
- Jessica
