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Year 5 English

Reading

 

Autumn Term

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In the autumn term Year 5 children will:

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  • have a reading age of 10 years

  • identify and work out the meaning of key words in the texts we read

  • retrieve and record information from fiction texts

  • summarise the main events from more than one paragraph

  • ask and answer questions about the text we are reading

  • discuss what we know about a character's thoughts and feelings from their actions

  • make predictions about what might happen next based on the evidence in the text

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Spring Term

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In the spring term Year 5 children will:

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  • have a reading age of 10 years and 5 months

  • read aloud with intonation that shows understanding

  • retrieve and record information from non-fiction texts

  • use evidence from the text to support opinions about a character's thoughts and feelings

  • Identify the main themes of what we are reading

  • identify and discuss how the choice of language enhances meaning

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Summer Term

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In the summer term Year 5 children will:

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  • have a reading age of 10 years and 10 months

  • explore the meaning of words in context

  • retrieve and record information from poetry

  • recognise fact and opinion in a text

  • identify the conventions of what we are reading

  • evaluate whether the use of language enhances a text

  • make accurate and appropriate comparisons within a text

Writing

 

Autumn Term

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In the Autumn Term Year 5 children learn:

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  • use joined and legible handwriting styles

  • create a plan which supports the structure of an independent piece of writing

  • use conditional conjunctions at the start of and within a sentence to suggest possibility

  • embellish simple sentences with a range of fronted adverbials

  • develop character through the use of noun phrases and careful choice of verbs

  • develop setting through the use of noun phrases

  • create sentences which include relative clauses to extend detail

  • correctly punctuate relative clauses

  • choose vocabulary for precision

  • use adverbials and pronouns within paragraphs to create cohesion

  • use a variety of organisational and presentational devices to structure text and guide the reader

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  • integrate dialogue to show character

  • create -ed clauses/relative clauses with omission of pronoun and choose where they go in the sentence

  • create expanded noun phrases to describe both setting and character and use prepositional phrases to expend noun phrases

  • write sentences with more than one clause, making choices as to the order those clauses go in

  • make links to across paragraphs through the use of adverbials of time, place and number

  • consider the audience when writing the end of the text

  • proofread writing for spelling and punctuation errors linked to the Year 5 curriculum

  • evaluate and edit writing by making changes to the vocabulary, grammar and punctuation linked to the autumn term curriculum

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Spring Term

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In the Spring Term Year 5 children learn:

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  • use relative clauses to add detail to narrative in terms of character setting and plot

  • select vocabulary to assist the understanding of the reader

  • use relative clauses to add necessary detail to a non-fiction text

  • use compound sentences to create cohesion

  • evaluate and edit by ensuing mostly consistent and correct use of tense throughout writing

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  • enhance use of dialogue by using prepositional phrases within the reporting clauses

  • describe character and setting by creating metaphors, similes and onomatopoeia

  • express and maintain a viewpoint

  • make links across paragraphs through tense choice

  • use modal verbs to express degrees of possibility and certainty

  • express opinions through direct and reported speech

  • proofread writing for spelling and punctuation errors linked to the Year 5 Curriculum

  • evaluate and edit by ensuring there is correct subject and verb agreement when using singular and plural

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Summer Term

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In the Summer Term Year 5 children learn:

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  • create rhetorical questions as a way of considering the audience

  • describe a setting using personification

  • describe atmosphere through the use of 'empty words'

  • evaluate and edit by ensuring written language is distinct from spoken language

  • create a variety of fronted adverbials within and across writing punctuating them accurately

  • embellish simple sentences trough a full range of noun phrases, adverbial phrases and prepositional phrases

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  • use a variety of ways to create complex sentence with accurate punctuation

  • use a combination of rackets, dashes and commas for parenthesis

  • proofread writing for spelling and punctuation errors linked to the Year 5 curriculum

  • evaluate and edit work by making changes to grammar and vocabulary linked to the Year 5 curriculum

Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling

 

Autumn Term

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In the Autumn Term Year 5 children will:

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  • spell words containing the letters -string -ough

  • spell words with silent letters

  • spell words ending in -able, -ably and -ible and recognise which ending is more likely for an unfamiliar word

  • use the first 3/4 letters of a word to find the correct spelling in the dictionary

  • identity the four sentence types and how to punctuate them correctly

  • write the four sentence types correctly

  • identify where commas are needed to mark lusts, mark adverbials, clarify meaning and avoid ambiguity

  • identify and use a range of determiners to clarify meaning (include pronouns as determiners)

  • identify noun phrases and expanded noun phrases in sentences

  • use prepositions to expand noun phrases

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  • spell the list of 'Autumn Term Words We Need To Know'

  • spell given homophones and chooses which to use in the context of sentences

  • spell words ending in -ant -ance -ancy -ent -ence -ency and recognise which ending is more likely for unfamiliar words

  • punctuate direct speech accurately

  • identify main, subordinate and relative clauses in a sentence and understand their purpose

  • identify what makes a sentence simple, compound or complex

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Spring Term

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  • spell words with the endings -cial and -tial and recognise which is the more likely ending for unfamiliar words

  • adds suffixes which begin with vowel letters to words ending in -fer

  • identify all past and present verb forms; create all past and present verb forms from infinitive verbs

  • punctuate bullet points consistently

  • identify and write relative clauses with the relative pronoun omitted

  • identify where rackets, commas and dashes have been used correctly for parenthesis

 

  • spell the list of 'Spring Term Words We Need To Know'

  • use a hyphen to join prefixes which end in a vowel to a root word which begins with one

  • spell given homophones and chooses which one to use in the context of the sentence

  • convert singular nouns into plural nouns accurately

  • convent direct speech into indirect speech

  • identify whether a model verb is used to suggest possibility or certainty 

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Summer Term

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  • spell words with the 'ee' sound spelled ei after a 'c'

  • identify root words to enable the correct spelling of words containing the root

  • convert nouns or adjectives into verbs using suffixes (-ate, -ify, -ise)

  • understand how verb prefixes change the meanings of verbs

  • use colons and semi-colons to mark clauses

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  • spell a range of homophones and make the correct choice dependent on context

  • spell the tire list of 'Year 5 Words We Need to Know'

  • identify the full range of pronouns and demonstrates how to use them correctly in a sentence

  • identify where the active voice has been used in a sentence and write a sentence in the active voice

  • idenfity whether a word has been used as a preposition or a conjunction in a sentence where the word can function as both (before, until, after)

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