Grade 5 Prepositions — Dinosaurs

Students will identify prepositions that show the relationship between a noun and another word in the sentence.

After Q5, pause and ask students to act out the preposition physically — for example, have a student stand 'beside' the desk or place a pencil 'under' a book. This kinesthetic moment locks in the rule before the harder questions in Q6–Q8 and connects directly to the dinosaur scenes Leo moves through in this worksheet.

• Circle the sentence that uses the preposition correctly. A) Leo hid the ancient fern under. B) Leo hid under the ancient fern.
• Circle the sentence that uses the preposition correctly. A) Leo walked the meteor crater toward. B) Leo walked toward the meteor crater.
• Fill in the blank with the correct preposition from the box. [ beside / beside the / the beside ] — Leo found a fossil bone _______ the muddy trail.

...plus 5 more questions in the full worksheet

Instructions: Read each question carefully and choose or write the answer that uses the preposition correctly. Remember: a preposition shows where, when, or how one word connects to another in the sentence.

Standard: L.5.1

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