Planning and Activities
Non-fiction
English Year 5 Spring Information Texts
Reference Texts
Look at remarkable facts, common beliefs and reference texts. Learn whether you should believe – or not! Study modal verbs/adverbs and relative clauses.
The planning and resource documents for each session in this English block are free to all users.
Unit 1 Core: Exploring certainty and bias
(suggested as 4 days)
Back to Lockdown?
If your class or school is having to close for a while, these materials provide a home dimension as well as a clear route map outlining what to teach online, and what to practise at home.
With TA/Tutor
These materials are for a TA or Tutor to use with a small group of children or one child.
They support the learning in class in this unit.
Notes are provided for teacher and TA/Tutor.
Coming soon!
You Will Need
Texts
True or False? Dorling Kindersley
Optional Texts
Ripley’s Believe it Or Not (2018)
Unit 2 SPAG: Identifying and Using Adverbs of Certainty
(suggested as 3 days)
Planning and Activities
Back to Lockdown?
If your class or school is having to close for a while, these materials provide a home dimension as well as a clear route map outlining what to teach online, and what to practise at home.
With TA/Tutor
These materials are for a TA or Tutor to use with a small group of children or one child.
They support the learning in class in this unit.
Notes are provided for teacher and TA/Tutor.
Coming soon!
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Texts
True or False by Dorling Kindersley
Presentations
SPAG PowerPoint: Adverbs of Certainty
Unit 3 Comprehension: Understanding the basis of accurate research from reference texts
(suggested as 4 days)
Planning and Activities
Back to Lockdown?
If your class or school is having to close for a while, these materials provide a home dimension as well as a clear route map outlining what to teach online, and what to practise at home.
With TA/Tutor
These materials are for a TA or Tutor to use with a small group of children or one child.
They support the learning in class in this unit.
Notes are provided for teacher and TA/Tutor.
Coming soon!
You Will Need
Texts
True or False? by Dorling Kindersley
Optional Texts
Strange but True by Andrea Mills, 2015
Unit 4 SPAG: Using modal Verbs to indicate degrees of possibility
(suggested as 4 days)
Planning and Activities
Back to Lockdown?
If your class or school is having to close for a while, these materials provide a home dimension as well as a clear route map outlining what to teach online, and what to practise at home.
With TA/Tutor
These materials are for a TA or Tutor to use with a small group of children or one child.
They support the learning in class in this unit.
Notes are provided for teacher and TA/Tutor.
Coming soon!
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Texts
True or False? by Dorling Kindersley
Strange but True by Andrea Mills
Optional Texts
Ripley’s Believe It or Not (2018)
Presentations
SPAG PowerPoint: Using Modal Verbs
Unit 5 Composition: Writing well-researched reference texts
(suggested as 4 days)
