KS2 - Year 5 - English

Year 5

Reading & Comprehension (6 lessons)
Moves pupils toward evidence-based inference, skimming and scanning, summarising longer texts, understanding structure, and distinguishing fact from opinion — key skills for upper KS2 reading. Complete with slides, worksheets, lesson plans, and vocabulary activities.

Poetry (6 lessons)
Introduces metaphor, personification, and connotation, with pupils learning to choose words deliberately for effect before writing and performing their own poem. Full teacher slides, worksheets with answers, lesson plans, and embedded keyword practice.

Non-Fiction Writing (6 lessons)
Covers formal vs. informal writing, balanced arguments, modal verbs of possibility, and writing a formal letter, finishing with a proofreading-focused lesson. Each lesson fully resourced with slides, worksheet, lesson plan, and vocabulary activity set.

Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling (6 lessons)
Covers Latin roots, verb-forming suffixes (-ate/-ise/-ify), relative clauses, and parenthesis (brackets, dashes, commas) — genuinely stretching Year 5 grammar content. Complete with slides, worksheets, lesson plans, and keyword activities.