Year 5 English Curriculum

Year Five English Curriculum SPOKEN LANGUAGE Pupils should be taught to:

listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and build vocabulary and knowledge articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions give well-structured descriptions and explanations maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments

use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas speak audibly and fluently with an increasing command of Standard English

participate in discussions, presentations, performances and debates gain, maintain and monitor the interest of the listener(s) consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others select and use appropriate registers for effective communication.

Year Five English Curriculum READING Word reading Pupils should be taught to:

Understand what they read by: checking that the book makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and exploring the apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes meaning of words in context and suffixes (morphology and etymology), both to read asking questions to improve their understanding aloud and to understand the meaning of new words drawing inferences such as inferring characters' that they meet. feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence READING predicting what might happen from details stated and Comprehension implied Pupils should be taught to: summarising the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph, identifying key details that support the maintain positive attitudes to reading and understanding of main ideas what they read by: identifying how language, structure and presentation continuing to read and discuss an increasingly wide contribute to meaning range of fiction, poetry, plays, non -fiction and reference books or textbooks Discuss and evaluate how authors use language, including reading books that are structured in different ways and figurative language, considering the impact on the reader. reading for a range of purposes increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, Distinguish between statements of fact and opinion. including myths, legends and traditional stories, modern fiction, fiction from our literary heritage, and Retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction. books from other cultures and traditions recommending books that they have read to their Participate in discussions about books that are read to them peers, giving reasons for their choices and those they can read for themselves, building on their identifying and discussing themes and conventions in own and others’ ideas and challenging views courteously. and across a wide range of writing making comparisons within and across books Explain and discuss their understanding of what they have learning a wider range of poetry by heart read, including through formal presentations and debates, preparing poems and plays to read aloud and to maintaining a focus on the topic and using notes where perform, showing understanding through intonation, necessary. tone and volume so that the meaning is clear to an audience Provide reasoned justifications for their views.

Year Five English Curriculum WRITING Composition Pupils should be taught to:

Evaluate and edit by: assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing Plan their writing by: proposing changes to vocabulary, grammar and identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning selecting the appropriate form and using other similar ensuring the consistent and correct use of tense writing as models for their own throughout a piece of writing noting and developing initial ideas, drawing on reading ensuring correct subject and verb agreement when and research where necessary using singular and plural, distinguishing between the in writing narratives, considering how authors have language of speech and writing and choosing the developed characters and settings in what they have appropriate register read, listened to or seen performed Proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors .

Draft and write by: selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, Perform their own compositions, using appropriate understanding how such choices can change and intonation, volume, and movement so that meaning is clear. enhance meaning in narratives, describing settings, characters and WRITING atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey Handwriting character and advance the action Pupils should be taught to: prĂŠcising longer passages using a wide range of devices to build cohesion within Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed by: and across paragraphs choosing which shape of a letter to use when given using further organisational and presentational devices choices and deciding, as part of their personal style, to structure text and to guide the reader (e.g. headings, whether or not to join specific letters bullet points, underlining) choosing the writing implement that is best suited for a task (e.g. quick notes, letters).

Year Five English Curriculum WRITING Spelling Pupils should be taught to: use further prefixes and suffixes and understand the guidelines for adding them spell some words with ‘silent’ letters, e.g. knight, psalm, solemn continue to distinguish between homophones and other words which are often confused use knowledge of morphology and etymology in spelling and understand that the spelling of some words needs to be learnt specifically use dictionaries to check the spelling and meaning of words use the first three or four letters of a word to check spelling, meaning or both of these in a dictionary use a thesaurus.

WRITING Spelling Pupils should be taught to: Endings which sound like /shus/ spelt –cious or –tious Endings which sound like /shal/ spelt –cial or –tial Words ending in –ant, –ance/–ancy, –ent, –ence/–ency

Words ending in –able and –ible Words ending in –ably and –ibly

Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in –fer The r is doubled if the –fer is still stressed when the ending is added. (referred) The r is not doubled if the –fer is no longer stressed. (referee) Use of the hyphen (co-operate/re-enter) Words with the /i/ sound spelt ei after c

Words containing the letter-string ough Words with ‘silent’ letters (i.e. letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word)

Homophones and other words that are often confused

Year Five English Curriculum Word list for years 5 and 6 accommodate communicate accompany community according competition achieve conscience* aggressive conscious* amateur controversy ancient convenience apparent correspond appreciate criticise (critic + attached ise) available curiosity average definite awkward desperate bargain determined bruise develop category dictionary cemetery disastrous committee embarrass

environment equip (–ped, ment) especially exaggerate excellent existence explanation familiar foreign forty frequently government guarantee harass hindrance identity immediate(ly)

individual interfere interrupt language leisure lightning marvellous mischievous muscle necessary neighbour nuisance occupy occur opportunity parliament persuade physical

prejudice privilege profession programme pronunciation queue recognise recommend relevant restaurant rhyme rhythm sacrifice secretary shoulder signature sincere(ly) soldier

stomach sufficient suggest symbol system temperature thorough twelfth variety vegetable vehicle yacht

Teachers should continue to emphasis to pupils the relationships between sounds and letters, even when the relationships are unusual. Once root words are learnt in this way, longer words can be spelt correctly if the rules and guidelines for adding prefixes and suffixes are also known. Many of the words in the list above can be used for practice in adding suffixes.

Understanding the history of words and relationships between them can also help with spelling. Examples: Conscience and conscious are related to science: conscience is simply science with the prefix con - added. These words come from the Latin word scio meaning I know.

The word desperate, meaning ‘without hope’, is often pronounced in English as desp’rate, but the –sper- part comes from the Latin spero, meaning ‘I hope’, in which the e was clearly sounded.

Familiar is related to family, so the /ə/ sound in the first syllable of familiar is spelt as a.

Year Five English Curriculum WRITING Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation Pupils should be taught to:

WRITING Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation Pupils should be taught to:

Develop their understanding of the concepts by: recognising vocabulary and structures that are appropriate for formal speech and writing, including subjunctive forms using passive verbs to affect the presentation of information in a sentence using expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely using modal verbs or adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility using relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative pronoun

Word Converting nouns or adjectives into verbs using suffixes (e.g. –ate; –ise; –ify) Verb prefixes (e.g. dis–, de–, mis–, over– and re–) Sentence Relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that, or an omitted relative pronoun Indicating degrees of possibility using adverbs (e.g. perhaps, surely) or modal verbs (e.g. might, should, will, must) Text Devices to build cohesion within a paragraph (e.g. then, after that, this, firstly) Linking ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time (e.g. later), place (e.g. nearby) and number (e.g. secondly)

Indicate grammatical and other features by: using commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing using hyphens to avoid ambiguity using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate Punctuation parenthesis Brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis using semi-colons, colons or dashes to mark Use of commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity boundaries between main clauses using a colon to introduce a list Terminology for Pupils punctuating bullet points consistently modal verb, relative pronoun relative clause Use and understand the grammatical terminology accurately parenthesis, bracket, dash and appropriately in discussing their writing and reading. cohesion, ambiguity