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English

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How to learn in Year 5 English

Watch this short guide, then choose a lesson below.

Learn through explanations, worked examples and practice.

Your earlier submitted work and progress are retained in your learning history. These replacement lessons have their own progress.

Word knowledge

  1. Look inside an unfamiliar word
  2. Similar words are not always interchangeable

Reading closely

  1. Collect the relevant details
  2. Link an action to a possible motive
  3. Keep the thread across paragraphs
  4. Check what could be verified
  5. Literal meaning is not the whole effect

Literature

  1. The same event can feel different
  2. Read beyond the surface events
  3. Let interpretation guide the voice

Discussion

  1. Give reasons and answer the point

Spelling

  1. Connect the ending to the root
  2. Use a pattern without ignoring exceptions
  3. Listen, look and use related words
  4. Check what remains before the ending
  5. Build nouns ending ancy and ency
  6. Turn able and ible adjectives into adverbs

Spelling and handwriting

  1. Accuracy supports the message

Grammar

  1. Add information about a noun
  2. Show how certain a claim is
  3. Help the reader follow the links
  4. Make a verb with a suffix
  5. Change a verb with a prefix
  6. When can a relative pronoun be left out?

Punctuation

  1. Set apart extra information
  2. A small mark can change the meaning

Writing

  1. Plan for what your reader needs
  2. Use action and dialogue together
  3. Revision is more than correcting spellings

Spelling word studies

  1. Word study: accommodate to apparent
  2. Word study: appreciate to category
  3. Word study: cemetery to controversy
  4. Word study: convenience to develop
  5. Word study: dictionary to especially
  6. Word study: exaggerate to frequently
  7. Word study: government to individual

Check your learning

  1. Year 5 English — course check