Year 5 Reading Intervention Full Year | Comprehension, Fluency and Word Study

A complete, full-year reading intervention for Year 5 small groups: 12 three-week skill units (36 weeks) of comprehension, word study and fluency, with a skill screener, cold-read progress probes and full answer keys. 111 A4 pages, ready to print.

Built for groups of three to six pupils who need extra support, meeting four times a week for 20–30 minutes alongside whole-class English lessons.

What’s included

• How to Use guide, a step-by-step guide to running a cold-read probe, Scope and Sequence and Curriculum Links
• Skill Screener (12 items, one per unit) with a scoring and grouping grid
• Group Progress Tracker and a pupil Reading Growth Graph with start, middle and end-of-year fluency benchmarks
• 12 units, each with 8 pages: teacher plan (day by day for three weeks), anchor chart, original teaching passage with running word counts, Words to know, Talk about it and Quick write, four multiple-choice questions plus an extended answer, graphic organiser, word study sort with a spelling tip, fluency log with a word-time helper, and a cold-read probe with a ready-made WCPM table
• Answer keys with model answers for every extended question, all 12 word sorts and all probe questions

The 12 skills

Main idea and key details • Sequence of events • Character traits and feelings • Cause and effect • Context clues • Compare and contrast • Making inferences • Text features • Theme • Author’s purpose and viewpoint • Problem and solution • Summarising

Curriculum links

Every question is tagged with a KS2 English reading content domain (2a–2h), so you can see at a glance which kinds of question each pupil finds hard. Each unit is matched to a Year 5–6 comprehension statement in the national curriculum. Word study covers Year 5–6 endings (-able/-ible, -cious/-tious, -cian) and revises the Year 3–4 prefixes, suffixes and roots that many pupils in an intervention group still need.

England contexts include the Great Stink of 1858, the River Thames and the Thames Barrier, hedgehogs and migrating swallows. All passages, questions, word lists and drawings are original.

Teacher tips

• Use the screener to group pupils, then teach the units in order or start with the skills your group needs most.
• Time each probe on the first word of the passage; the margin word counts make scoring quick.
• Shade the tracker cell green when a pupil scores 3/3 and reaches the benchmark for that time of year.

Fonts: Poppins, Lato and Andika (SIL Open Font Licence). Single-classroom licence.