Year 5 Literacy 2015-2016
Autumn Term
We Date
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Aims
Possible Teaching Activities
Outcomes
Resources
1
Diagnostic Assessment
 read, write and analyse paragraphs
 Introduce spelling rules and testing procedures
All children can:
 Understand the structure of a paragraph
 Write a paragraph
 Follow the writing process
Some children can:
 Write using varied sentence structure, adjectives,
adverbs and connectives
Spectrum Writing
5, English Back to
Basics F
Read The Ghostly Wedding, focusing on
genre features
Use the “box” method to explore narrative
structure
Discuss and draft stories
Practise direct and indirect speech
Act the story
(optional) Kensuke’s Kingdom by M.
Morpurgo
All children can:
 Plan and structure stories
 Write stories with interesting beginnings and
endings
100 LH Unit 1
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Annotate, summarise
Use a thesaurus to find synonyms
Write a vivid description
Write a story
Share and peer-evaluate work
(optional) Kensuke’s Kingdom by M.
Morpurgo
All children can:
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Analyse story structure and presentation of
characters
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Create strong characters and believable settings
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ALL CHILDREN CAN:
Read persuasive texts about CCTV in
classrooms and skateboarding in public
 Provide reasoned justification of views
places
 Use formal and informal registers correctly
Answer comprehension questions
 Retrieve phrases from texts read to use in own
writing
Discuss the predictable structure of opinion
essays
Annotate the texts to find phrases useful for
own writing
Write, edit and proofread an opinion essay
1 SEPT
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2
7 SEPT
Narrative structure
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3
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4, 5 21 SEPT
28 SEPT
establish the children’s
current level of literacy skills
read, understand and write a
paragraph
know the writing process
know the structure of different
stories
understand what makes good
beginnings, dramatic
development and endings
Grammar Focus: direct/
indirect speech; dialogue
punctuation
Aspects of Narrative
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Write summaries
explore characterisation
evaluate a text
Write stories
Grammar Focus: verb forms
and tenses
Persuasive: opinion
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Participate in a debate
Retrieve, record and present
information from a non-fiction
text
Plan, draft and write a
persuasive essay
Grammar Focus: formal and
informal speech
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Write varied dialogue with correct layout and
punctuation
100 LH Unit 3
Use standard English spelling and punctuation
Hamilton Trust
non-fiction plan 3A
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6, 5 OCT
7, 8 12 OCT
19 OCT
Spelling Focus: _tial, -cial
Classic Fiction
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Read and understand
language in a classic novel
Make notes and use
evidence from across a text
to explain events or ideas
Identify features of the
author’s style
Grammar Focus:
conjunctions, relative
clauses
Spelling Focus: -able, -ible
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explore the charm and challenge of classic
fiction
write a modern-day Jungle Book story,
write Just So Stories diary entries
perform their own Just So Story in Kipling's
style.
ALL CHILDREN CAN:
 identify language features in classic stories
 identify the point of view in a story
 write a diary entry from a character’s point of view
 punctuate complex sentences
 use connectives to link clauses
Hamilton Trust unit
1A
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Essential Fiction
Unit 4
HALF-TERM BREAK
9,
10
2 NOV
9 NOV
Biographies and
autobiographies
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11, 16 NOV
12 23 NOV
Poetry: performance (slam)
poems
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11, 30 NOV
12 7 DEC
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14 DEC
write and perform a short
poem
Grammar Focus: colloquial
language, contractions
Spelling Focus: -fer words +
their suffixes
Non-fiction: Recounts
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15
read, analyse, plan and write
an autobiography
Grammar Focus: complex
sentences, noun phrases
Spelling Focus: prefixes auto, bio-, suffixes –graphy, cious, -tious
understand language
features of an eyewitness
recount
Grammar Focus: adverbials,
commas for expanded noun
phrases
Spelling Focus: homophones
Use biographies of Roald Dahl & Michael All children can:
Morpurgo (both books & online) & their
 identify features of a biography and autobiography
autobiographical writing to identify
 write an retell autobiographical stories
features of biographies & autobiographies.
Use the texts to study dialogue, noun
phrases & complex sentences. Write
autobiographies.
Study a slam poem (a form of performance
poetry) & other poems about what to do
when you grow up. Chn write an extra
verse about their dreams. Use poems
about not knowing what to write to
stimulate writing about everyday little
things. Hold a poetry slam.
All children can:
 Identify voice and features used in slam poetry
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Write an perform a poem
ALL CHILDREN CAN:
Using the context of UFOs, chn explore
recounts: investigating genuine documents;
 Identify differences between historical and
discussing famous sightings & researching
eyewitness recount
notorious hoaxes. Chn write a diary entry
 Plan and write a sequel to a story
and create their own hoax UFO photo and
 Give an oral presentation
report. A video presentation completes the
unit.
ASSESSMENT – reading comprehension and writing
Hamilton Trust unit
2A Biographies
Hamilton Trust
Unit 1A Slam
Poetry, or
Essential Fiction
Unit 9
Hamilton Trust
Unit 1A Recounts,
or 100 LH Unit 5
Revision questions
and test
XMAS BREAK
Spring Term
We Date
ek
Aims
1, 2 4 JAN
(short
week)
11 JAN
Non-fiction: instructions and
explanations
3, 18 JAN
4, 5 25 JAN
1 FEB
Classic Poems
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8 FEB
Possible Teaching Activities
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Identify, understand and use
features of instructional and
explanatory texts
Grammar Focus: punctuation
Spelling Focus: words with
silent letters
understand that that the path
of light rays can be changed
Grammar Focus: relative
clauses
Spelling Focus: suffixes,
homophones
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Explore classic play scripts by
Shakespeare
Grammar Focus: subjunctive
Spelling Focus: -able, -ible
Follow and evaluate a range of card game
instructions
Research the internet for explanation texts;
take notes
Perform Dragon’s Den style presentations
of wacky inventions
Write an information guide about an
invented futuristic form of transport
Discuss archaic words and phrases
Compare poems
Write modern versions of poems
Memorise, perform and peer revise poetry
All children can:
 Understand features of instructions, including punctuation
 Consider the audience when writing
 Write for a purpose
All children can:
 Read narrative poems and note commentary responces
 Extend poems using own ideas but in the original style
 Recognise figurative language
Some children can:
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Drama
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Outcomes
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Introduce Shakespeare using Marcia
Williams’ Mr William Shakespeare’s Plays
– Romeo & Juliet + Macbeth.
Explore archaic words in Shakespeare’s
plays
Investigate different ways of writing
dialogue including playscript layout & the
use of informal language.
write a 60 sec version of part of Macbeth.
Use figurative language
All children can:
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Read and summarise a play
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Recognise the features of playscripts
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Write a playscript
Some children can:
make up a new word in the style of Shakespeare and use it.
Resources
Hamilton Trust Unit
2A Instructions and
Explanations
Hamilton Trust Unit
3A Classic
Narrative Poems
or Essential Fiction
Unit 8
Hamilton Trust Unit
4A Drama
(Shakespeare)
HALF-TERM BREAK
7
22 FEB
Drama (continued)
Hamilton Trust Unit
4A Drama
(Shakespeare)
8
29 FEB
Short Stories: Mystery
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10
Explore the structure of and
write a mystery story
Grammar Focus: adverbials
Spelling Focus: silent letters
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Look at the genre of short stories using
Short! by Kevin Crossley-Holland.
investigate the use of adverbials to link
sentences or paragraphs together.
plan & write short mystery stories
elaborating by use of descriptive words &
further details.
All children can:
 identify the genre of a story
 predict the ending
 identify the features of a genre
 plan, draft, write and revise a story
14 MARCH ASSESSMENT – reading comprehension and writing
Hamilton Trust Unit
3A Genre Fiction
revision questions
and test
EASTER BREAK
Summer Term
We Date
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Aims
1,2, 4 APRIL,
3
11 APRIL
18 APRIL
Classic Novel
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4,5
25 APRIL
4 MAY
Possible Teaching Activities
increase in familiarity with a
wide range of books including
fiction from our literary
heritage
drawing inferences and
justifying these with evidence
from the text
plan, draft and write
Grammar Focus: complex and
compound sentences,
elaborate language
Spelling Focus: -ie, -ei
Reports and Journalistic
Writing
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understand the features of
formal language
Grammar Focus: direct/
indirect speech, passive
voice
Spelling Focus: -ice, -ise,
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Through The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien,
investigate settings, character
development, dialogue & narrative style.
Writing includes: dramatisation, playing
with point-of-view & writing a 'Lost Tale'.
Outcomes
Resources
All children can:
 describe the narrative style of an author
 annotate and discuss original text
 effectively use clauses in a sentence
Hamilton Trust Unit
5A Classic Novels
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plan, draft, write, revise a “lost” tale
All children can:
Use Tuesday by David Wiesner to study
report writing.
 Write a formal report using reported speech and
passive voice
Look at different ways of writing speech –
playscripts, speech bubbles, direct &
 Write in paragraphs
reported speech.
 Evaluate own and partner’s writing
Compare formal & informal writing including
use of passive voice.
Write newspaper reports.
Hamilton Trust Unit
4A Reports and
Journalistic Writing
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9 MAY
16 MAY
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8,9
23-25 MAY
(short
week),
30 MAY
6 JUNE
11,
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13 JUNE
20 JUNE
Know that some materials will
dissolve in liquid to form a
solution, and describe how to
recover a substance from a
solution
Grammar Focus: modal verbs,
apostrophes
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Debate Poetry
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Non-fiction: Persuasive
Writing
Compare and annotate poems
Write and perform a playscript
based on poem
Plan, write, revise a poem
Grammar Focus: elaborated
language, expanded noun
phrases, grammatical
terminology
Spelling Focus: hyphenated
words
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Analyse adverts and political speeches,
adapt protest songs
manipulate with modal verbs.
write persuasively
the unit ends in a “political rally.”
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distinguish facts from opinions
provide reasoned justifications for their views
use a thesaurus
write with the purpose and audience in mind
All children can:
Read a Gulf ‘debate’ poem about a fierce
dispute between coffee & tea.
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Use hyphens to avoid ambiguity
Identify features of poems that tell a story.
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Identify powerful verbs in a poem
Read & compare other poems about drinks.
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Write a scene based on part of a poem
Create & perform a playscript for the
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Write a narrative poem
dispute.
Give and receive positive criticism
Write a poem about a drink.
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understand the structure and
language of non-chronological
reports
Grammar Focus: active and
passive; past participles
Spelling Focus: commonly
confused words
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Hamilton Trust unit
5A Debate Poetry
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ASSESSMENT - reading comprehension and writing
Non-chronological reports
Hamilton Trust Unit
5A Persuasive
Writing
Use texts about iPads & iPhones to
introduce features of non-chronological
reports.
Create a new section for a BBC online
activity about reports using BOS/ QuAD
techniques.
Research information about another
electronic device & write reports.
SUMMER HOLIDAY
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ALL CHILDREN CAN:
Understand how to use BOS and QuAD grids.
Research information for a non-chronological
report
Use paragraphs to organize material
Write and revise a report
revision questions
and test
Hamilton Trust unit
6A Nonchronological
Reports