5th Grade Interactive Grammar Games

If you are looking for 5th grade interactive grammar games, you will find many online.  Following are explanations of some of these sites and a summary of the instructions for playing the games.

5th Grade Interactive Grammar Games 

If you had to pick just one site online to be your source of 5th grade interactive grammar games, Internet 4 Classrooms could be it. It has interactive games, quizzes, and activities in 10 grammar categories plus nine reading categories. Here is a breakdown of the number of activities in each grammar category: 

• Adjectives and Adverbs - 11
• Analogies - 16
• Antonyms and synonyms - 11
• Capitalization and contractions - 13
• General Grammar - 19
• Nouns and Pronouns - 10
• Plurals - 16
• Spelling - 14
• Word Usage Errors - 8
• Verb Study - 22

As you can see, this site has a lot of different ways to improve grammar skills.

Grammar Gorillas is another fun grammar game with colorful graphics. Fifth graders would play the advanced level with all the parts of speech. There is an explanation and examples of a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, interjection, preposition, conjunction and pronoun on the page where the game is played. When your answer is wrong, the game explains why it is wrong. This is a very good game and should be very useful for students learning or reviewing the parts of speech. 

Another of the 5th grade interactive grammar games online is Grammar Blast at Edu Place. The game is geared for grades 2-5. There are at least seven units on each level, and after two levels there is a review. Sentences, nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, capitalization, prepositions, pronouns, and punctuation are all covered.  Each level ends with a “Super Challenge Quiz on All Units.” You get two chances to get the right answer.    

Other Word Games 

Teacher.Scholastic.com has five grammar games. These games cover subject-verb agreement, capital letters, punctuation, prefixes, suffixes, and homophones. The games have colorful graphics and are fun to play. One excellent game is an editing game called Edit Dan’s Copy. The higher of the two levels covers quotation marks, apostrophes, and run-on sentences. To play, you can either click the letters on the keyboard that is displayed in the game or you can type on your own keyboard. If you get the wrong answer, they display the right one. 

The following sites have 5th grade interactive grammar games with more emphasis on words and making complete sentences. They include practice on synonyms, and antonyms, as well as some work on prefixes, suffixes, and punctuation.

• Ellwood.Goleta.K12's website has several good games for grades 2-6. The games cover synonyms, antonyms, prefixes, suffixes, making sentences, and punctuation. In Ball Hog you jump on the tennis balls that represents the proper synonym or antonym. In Word Jungle, you search in the jungle for synonyms. In Race to Ramses, you match prefixes and suffixes to make words in an Egyptian pyramid. In Wall of Words, you make complete sentences using the proper punctuation to construct a wall. These games have great graphics and they are engaging.
• The 5th grade level of Grammar Practice Park covers nouns, subject-verb agreement, sentences, and punctuation. It also has levels for grades 3 and 4, which is good for any 5th graders that need to review or that are struggling with grammar. This game can be found at Harcourt School.com.
• This game at Classzone.com is a game for middle school or high school students called Grammar Arcade. It has arcade style games, but to advance to the next level or to be released after being captured, you have to answer a question correctly. There are games on subject-verb agreement, proper use of commas, sentence fragments, and run-on sentences. For example, the subject-verb game has the player in a pyramid and when he is caught by the mummy, he has to answer a question. This is a good resource for advanced students.