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)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
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
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
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
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
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)
