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English

Year 5

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Five sentence types

Key grammar terminology, including determiners and fronted adverbials

Three tense forms and modal verbs

Speech punctuation, parenthesis and apostrophes

Verb, adjective and noun suffixes

Noun suffixes, letter strings and homophones

Etymology and prefixes

Building handwriting fluency through speed, choices and writing dialogue

Taste and smell words

Developing reading preferences in Year 5

'How To Train Your Dragon': reading

'How to Train Your Dragon': diary and narrative writing

'Crazy about Cats': reading

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The aye-aye or wild cats: non-chronological report

Wild Cats: non-chronological report

The Aye-Aye: non-chronological report

The Titanic: journalistic report writing

Introduction to debate

'The Viewer': narrative writing

'The Unforgotten Coat': book club

'The Highwayman': narrative writing

Poetry about personal experiences

'The Listeners': reading

School uniform: persuasive letter writing

'Mirror': reading

Shakespeare's 'Macbeth': narrative and soliloquy writing

'Front Desk': book club

'Front Desk': persuasive letter writing

'Oliver Twist': reading

'Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover': reading

The Amazon Rainforest: essay writing

'Princess Sophia Duleep Singh: My Story': reading

Harriet Tubman: biographical writing

Poetry inspired by animals

'Wonder': book club

Successful speeches