Overview

Listening and Speaking in Grade 5 ELA (Alberta) builds students’ ability to participate thoughtfully in conversations and share ideas clearly, using 5 focused worksheet activities. This lesson bundle is designed to strengthen how students listen for meaning, speak with purpose, and respond respectfully during academic and everyday discussions.

The included materials follow a progression from respectful discussion routines to purposeful speaking, organized oral delivery, strategic listening, and clarifying responses—so students practice communication skills that show up in classroom learning, group work, and real-life communication.

In total, you’ll use 5 worksheet packs to support consistent practice across a short unit, helping learners gain confidence while teachers target specific oral language outcomes aligned to the Alberta framework.

What's Included

• ✅ Respectful Discussion Skills Worksheet Pack | Grade 5 ELA Practice – Students practice moves for respectful turn-taking, active listening, and appropriate response during discussion.
• ✅ Purpose Audience Speaking Worksheet Pack | Grade 5 ELA Practice – Students identify a speaking purpose and audience needs, then adjust language to match the listener.
• ✅ Organized Oral Delivery Worksheet Pack | Grade 5 ELA Practice – Students organize ideas into a clear speaking structure using an introduction, details, and a closing.
• ✅ Listening Strategies Worksheet Grade 5 | ELA Practice – Students apply listening strategies to capture main ideas, key details, and important wording.
• ✅ Clarifying And Responding Worksheet Pack | Grade 5 ELA Practice – Students learn how to ask clarifying questions and respond effectively using evidence from what they heard.

Skills & Standards

Within this Alberta ELA lesson bundle, students strengthen core oral communication skills through structured practice in listening and speaking. They learn to engage in collaborative discussion by following norms for respectful participation, listening with attention to meaning, and taking turns with intention. The bundle also supports disciplinary communication by helping students plan, deliver, and evaluate oral messages.

Students practice modeling and reasoning as they plan responses based on a speaker’s message, then explain how their speaking choices connect to purpose and audience. They use evidence-based thinking by referencing details they heard and choosing language that accurately reflects the information. Across the worksheets, learners build specific competencies such as:

• Using respectful discussion strategies to maintain productive dialogue
• Adapting speech to purpose and audience needs
• Delivering oral ideas with an organized structure for clarity
• Applying listening strategies to identify main ideas and key details
• Clarifying meaning and responding with questions or statements grounded in the conversation

Perfect For

• Teachers seeking structured instruction
• Sub plans
• Homework or review
• Intervention or centers
• Assessment preparation

How to Use

Plan for a typical 1–3 week pacing, depending on how often you include oral language practice. Start with respectful discussion norms, then move into purposeful and organized speaking before focusing on listening strategies and clarifying responses. Use the worksheets as targeted practice sessions after mini-lessons or class read-aloud discussions.

• Begin each day with a 3–5 minute warm-up: students rehearse one discussion move (turn-taking, respectful agreement/disagreement, or clarifying a question) using sentence frames.
• After guided practice, assign one worksheet pack for small-group work or independent practice, then hold a brief conferencing check for organization, clarity, and listening accuracy.
• Use end-of-lesson exit tickets that ask students to identify a listening strategy used, the purpose of a sample message, or one improvement to their speaking delivery.

Closing

With 5 Alberta-aligned Grade 5 ELA worksheet activities, this Listening and Speaking lesson bundle gives students repeatable routines to listen closely, speak purposefully, and respond with confidence.