Literacy Long Term Plan - Year 5
HALF TERM
BOOK
GENRES COVERED
PUNCTUATION AND GRAMMAR
SPELLING PATTERNS
Autumn 1
Farther
Apostrophes to mark singular and
plural possession
Inverted commas for direct speech
Standard English for verb inflictions
e.g. was/were
Autumn 2
Wolves in the Walls
Spring 1
The Sleeper and the
Spindle
Spring 2
The Highway Man
Explanations
Story endings
Character description
Information text – leaflet
Letters
Diary entries
Balanced Argument
Non-chronological reports
Recounts (newspaper)
Story endings
Character descriptions
Letters
diary
Persuasion
Recount (newspaper)
Full narrative
Story ending
Letters
diary
Balanced arguments
Character descriptions
Biography
Diary
Recounts (newspaper)
Summer 1
The Varmints
Persuasion
Full narrative
Playscript
Character description
letters
Summer 1
The Jungle Book
Full narrative
Instructions
Non-chronological report
Biography
persuasion
Use of commas after fronted adverbials
Relative clauses
Building cohesion within a paragraph
Commas to separate clauses
Apostrophes
Speech (inverted commas)
Use of brackets and dashes
Cohesion between paragraphs
Ambiguity
Relative pronouns
Relative clauses
-ible
-able
-ibly
-ably
-ation
-hyphen (co-education)
-ent
-ant
-ence
-auce
-eucy
-aucy
Silent letters (numb)
Double letters (programme referral)
-cial
-tial
-‘e’ after ‘c’
Soft ‘c’ (truce)
Yr 5/6 word list (exceptions)
-cious
-tious
-ous
-ure
-tion
-sion
Soft g - ge
-dge
Le –le
-al
-el
-il
-ful
-fully
-oy
-oi
-ear
-ire
-ough
Verb prefixes (e.g. dis-, de-)
Use adverbs to indicate degrees of
possibility
Modal verbs
Converting nouns or adjectives into
verbs using suffixes
Use of brackets and dashes
Adverbials of time place and number
(later, nearby, secondly)
Pronouns to avoid repetition
Apostrophes plural and possessive
Commas after fronted adverbials
Commas to separate clauses
Adverbials of time, place and number
Apostrophes – plural and possessive
3 Cross curricular writing
links (science, RE, CC, book)
Poetry is to be taught discretely 3 times a year for a week. This should be taught in week 1 of the longest half term of each term (e.g. Autumn 1).