Year 5
Term
Autumn 1 (7 weeks)
Literacy Overview 2016 - 2017
Autumn 2 (7 weeks)
Spring 1 (7 weeks)
Spring 2 (6 weeks)
Summer 1 (5 weeks)
Summer 2 (7 weeks)
Stargazers
Potions and Possibilities
Beast Creator
William Shakespeare’s England
William Shakespeare’s England
Cornersto
nes
Theme
Duration
Superhero’s
(Transition)
2 weeks
3 weeks
2 weeks
3 weeks
3 weeks
3 weeks
3 weeks
1 week
3 weeks
3 weeks
3 weeks
2 weeks
3 weeks
3 weeks
Purpose
To Report
To Entertain
To report
To
Entertain
To Persuade
To entertain
To persuade
To entertain
/ instruct
To inform
To instruct
To tell a moral/
entertain
To inform
To entertain
To explain
Form
Nonchronological
report
Detective
story
Newspaper
report
(Howard
Carter)
Meeting
Story
(Alien
Landings)
Discussion text
(Should Daleks
be allowed to
live on Earth?)
Quest story Harry Potter
Adverts
(all media)
Spell casting
poems/chanting
/riddles/rhymes
Nonchronological
report
Instruction on
how to care
for their
beast
Warning Tale
Biography
Cumulative Tale
Explanation
text
Audience
To create a
class anthology
of superheros
to inspire next
year’s year 5 to
read.
Performance
to parents
(assembly)
Year 1
classes
Write to
Tim Peake
Persuade
Government
For use in the
library.
Parents
Publishing
Library
Library
Year 6
Parents
To lower school
To year 4
Text
drivers
used
Variety of
comic strips
‘The Mystery
of the
Ancient
Scroll’
Historical
documentari
es,
newspaper
reports
Alien
Landings
Doctor Who
clips
Harry Potter
Macbeth
Play scripts
Life of
Shakespeare
‘The papaya that
spoke’
How to keep our
community clean
Tim Peake
going into
space
Doctor Who
Letter
Variety of
Shakespeare
stories as class
readers
Biography of
Henry V111 &
Elizabeth 1
The Gingerbread
Man
How the Tudors
lived
Grammar
and
punctuation
Curriculu
m
extended
writing
opportuni
ties
Relative
clauses to add
detail
beginning with
‘who’, ‘which’,
‘where’,
‘when’, ‘whose’,
‘that’, or an
omitted
relative
pronoun
- Relative
pronouns
who which
that whom
whose
-Onomatopoeia
Ancient Egyptians
- Start a
sentence with
an expanded ‘ed’ clause
Frightened of
the dark, Tom
hid under the
bed all night.
- Relative
clauses to add
detail
beginning with
‘who’, ‘which’,
‘where’, ‘when’,
‘whose’, ‘that’,
or an omitted
relative
pronoun
whose
-Onomatopoeia
- Verb
prefixes
‘dis-’, ‘de-’,
‘mis-’, ‘over-’
and ‘re-’
- Embellishing
simple
sentences
- Past
perfect
continuous
verb form
‘had’ + past
participle +
‘-ing’
- Secure
use of
compound
sentences
Variety of adverts
Harry Potter series
Diagon Alley
Harry Potter
– Mythical &
Magical
Beasts
The Monster
Book of
Monsters
- Developing
technical language
- Start a
complex sentence
with a
subordinate
clause
- Rhetorical
questions
- Indicating
degrees of
possibility using
modal verbs
might, should,
will, must
- Indicating
degrees of
possibility using
modal verbs
might, should,
will, must
- Embedded ‘-ed’
clauses:
Poor Tom,
frightened by the
fierce dragon,
ran home
- Indefinite
pronouns:
somebody,
something,
someone, nobody,
nothing, no-one,
everything,
anything, nothing
- Future tense
verbs
- Connectives
to build
cohesion
Exemplification
To summarise
To sequence
Results
- Linking ideas
across
paragraphs
using adverbials
of time (later),
place (nearby)
and sequence
(secondly)
- Developing
technical
language
- Colons for play
scripts
- Editing
sentences by
either expanding
or reducing for
meaning and
effect
Transferring
Shakespeare into
a cumulative tale?
- Commas for
parenthesis
- Brackets for
parenthesis
RECOUNT – trip to Hampton Court
Palace
Form Coverage: Narrative ____ Report ____ Recount ____ Discussion ____ Explanation _____ Persuasion _____ Instructions _____ (Poetry _____)
Editing sentences by
either expanding or
reducing for meaning
and effect
- Dashes for
parenthesis
- Commas for
parenthesis