Reading in Year 5 – Your child needs to know:
- continue to read an increasingly wide range of fiction, poetry, plays and non-fiction texts
- read fiction texts both modern and old, and from other cultures and traditions
- prepare poems and plays to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation and volume
- infer characters’ feelings from their actions and justifying inferences with evidence
- discuss how authors use figurative language
- distinguish between fact and opinion
Writing in Year 5 – Your child needs to know:
- use further prefixes and suffixes and understand the guidance for adding them
- spell some words with silent letters
- learn the spelling of more difficult homophones(words which sound the same but are spelt differently)
- use a dictionary and a thesaurus
- use adverbs and adverbials to explain how something is being done
- write with neat, legible handwriting; write with increasing speed
- use brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis
- use commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity
- learn to select appropriate grammar and vocabulary
- describe settings, characters and atmosphere in narratives and integrate dialogue
- carefully structure texts with a range of organisational devices, including time connectives, paragraphs, headings, bullet points, underlining
- assess and improve the effectiveness of their writing