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title: 'Video: What fifth-grade writing looks like'
description: Fifth-graders are honing their writing abilities. They have more sophisticated ideas and use more detail. Find out what writing skills most kids this age have gained.
slug: video-what-fifth-grade-writing-looks-like
author: The Understood Team
published: '2019-10-16T11:48:46.461Z'
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source_url: https://www.understood.org/en/articles/video-what-fifth-grade-writing-looks-like
lang: en
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# Video: What fifth-grade writing looks like

What does fifth-grade writing involve? Fifth graders’ writing involves more sophisticated ideas, more detail, and more complicated sentences than before. Find out what else you might expect from most kids this age in this video from [GreatSchools](https://www.greatschools.org/).

[![Video](https://cdn-images.understood.org/p0qf7j048i0q/A006764C3B1648BBA697F97CFACC99EB/4a02b250b71aed5763f672c3654c39a2/Video-WhatFifthGradeWritingLooksLike.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/embed/eIjVMIkEjZw)

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