Year 5 Course Monthly Access

Description

Reading tasks consist of and/or give children an opportunity to:

• A range of different text types
• Use morphological knowledge of root words and affixes to determine the meaning of new words
• Understand the pronunciation of words with the same letter string
• Understand themes and conventions in a variety of genres
• Read age appropriate poetry
• Understand the purpose of language, structure and presentation of different text types
• Understand the meaning of words in context and identify words with similar meaning
• Understand some figurative language and explain the effect on the reader
• Compare texts
• Make inferences and find evidence in a text
• Understand facts and opinions
• Summarise information from more than one paragraph
• Identify key information

Year 5 writing tasks consist of and/or give children an opportunity to:

• Plan and develop ideas for writing
• Write to suit purpose
• Understand how to create suspense
• Gain a growing understanding of writing features to suit audience
• Create cohesion by linking ideas within paragraphs
• Use a range of presentational devices
• Use dialogue
• Describe characters, setting and plot
• Begin writing summaries
• Write using a range of sentence types
• Understand how to use relative pronouns
• Understand how to use brackets, commas and dashes
• Indicate degrees of possibility using adverbs
• Write in past or present tense
• Identify and select determiners
• Identify formal and informal writing

Year 5 spelling tasks consist of and/or give children an opportunity to:

• Spell words from the Y5 and Y6 spelling list
• Revisit words from the Y3 and Y4 spelling list
• Use hyphen to join a prefix to a root
• Spell homophones from the Y5 and Y6 spelling list
• Spell words with letters which are not sounded