UK Year 5 Study Plan

By the beginning of Year 5, pupils should read aloud a wider range of poetry and age-appropriate books accurately and at a reasonable pace. They should read most words effortlessly and work out unfamiliar words with increasing automaticity, asking for help when pronunciation or meaning is unfamiliar.

Pupils should prepare readings with appropriate intonation, summarise and present familiar stories in their own words, and read widely and frequently for pleasure and information. They should read silently with good understanding, infer meanings of unfamiliar words, and discuss what they have read.

Pupils should write down ideas quickly. Grammar and punctuation should be broadly accurate. Spelling of most words taught so far should be accurate, and pupils should be able to spell untaught words by using what they know about how spelling works in English.

During Years 5 and 6, teaching should emphasise enjoyment and understanding of language, especially vocabulary. Pupils should enhance the effectiveness of their writing as well as their competence.

Pupils with poor decoding should catch up through a rigorous and systematic phonics programme. As far as possible, they should still follow upper KS2 in terms of listening to new books, new vocabulary and grammatical structures, and discussion.

By the end of Year 6, reading and writing should be fluent enough for Year 7 demands across subjects, and pupils will continue learning subject-specific vocabulary. Pupils should consciously control sentence structure, understand why sentences are constructed as they are, and understand nuances in vocabulary and age-appropriate academic vocabulary through consolidation, practice and discussion.

Spoken language is extended through public speaking, performance and debate.