Year 5 English Objectives

Year 5

 

Children learn to:

 

Speak and listen for a wide range of purposes in different contexts

 

1.    Speaking

• tell a story using notes designed to cue techniques, such as repetition, recap and humour
• present a spoken argument, sequencing points logically, defending views with evidence and making use of persuasive language
• use and explore different question types

 

2.    Listening and Responding

• identify different question types and evaluate impact on audience
• identify some aspects of talk which vary between formal and informal occasions
• analyse the use of persuasive language

 

3.    Group discussion and interaction

• plan and manage a group task over time using different levels of planning
• understand different ways to take the lead and support others in groups
• understand the process of decision making

 

4.     Drama

• reflect on how working in role helps to explore complex issues
• perform a scripted scene making use of dramatic conventions
• use and recognise the impact of theatrical effects in drama

 

 

Read a wide range of texts on screen and on paper

 

5.   Word reading skills and strategies

• use knowledge of words, roots, derivations and spelling patterns to read unknown words

 

6.   Understanding and interpreting texts

• make notes on and use evidence from across a text to explain events or ideas
• infer writers’ perspectives from what is written and from what is implied
• compare different types of narrative and information texts and identify how they are structured
  • explore how writers use language for comic and dramatic effects

 

 

7.   Engaging with and responding to texts

• reflect on reading habits and preferences and plan personal reading goals
• compare the usefulness of techniques such as visualisation, prediction, empathy in exploring the meaning of texts
• compare how a common theme is presented in poetry, prose and other media

 

 

 

Write a wide range of texts on paper and on screen

 

8.    Creating and shaping texts

• reflect independently and critically on own writing and edit and improve it
• experiment with different narrative forms and styles to write their own stories
• adapt non-narrative forms and styles to write fiction or factual texts, including poems
• vary pace and develop viewpoint through the use of direct and reported speech, portrayal of action, selection of detail
• create multi-layered texts, including use of hyperlinks, linked web pages

 

9.    Text structure and organisation

• experiment with the order of sections and paragraphs to achieve different effects
• change the order of material within a paragraph, moving the topic sentence

 

10.   Sentence structure and punctuation

• adapt sentence construction to different text types, purposes and readers
• punctuate sentences accurately, including use of speech marks and apostrophes

 

11.   Word structure and spelling

• spell words containing unstressed vowels and more complex prefixes and suffixes, e.g. im-, ir-, -tion, -cian.
• group and classify words with regular spelling patterns and their meanings

 

12.   Presentation

• adapt handwriting to specific purposes, e.g. printing, use of italics

use a range of ICT programmes to present texts