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English

National Curriculum in England · Key Stage 2 · Year 5

What they will learn

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Reading comprehension

Retrieval, inference, summarising and comparing texts.

Summarising and comparing

Summarising longer texts and comparing writers' choices.

  • Summarise main ideas
  • Compare two texts
  • Explain the effect of word choice

Grammar and punctuation

Clauses, tenses, commas, apostrophes and speech.

Clauses and punctuation

Relative clauses, commas, brackets and dashes.

  • Use relative clauses
  • Punctuate parenthesis
  • Use commas for clarity