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YEAR 5 & 6
LITERACY
Autumn Term
Word Level Work
o Investigate plurals, can children make their own rules (much better than being given rules,
as long as they're correct!)
o Investigate meanings and spellings of words with prefixes: auto, bi, tele and circum.
Sentence Level Work
Links to o Give sentences in direct/reported speech, to convert to reported/direct speech (she
curriculum said, "I am eating!" to she said (that) she was eating)
o Give a list, and ask to place a colon, make their own lists (top ten authors/pop stars etc.)
and place colons as necessary.
o Look at the conventions for writing dialogue in narrative using current reading books,
separate lines and commas etc.
Spring Term
Word Level Work
o Collect onomatopoeic words and present them to class
o See how many different ways the sound for example 'a' as in May, can be written
Sentence Level Work
o Write a formal invitation on the board, and ask the children to change it to an informal one…
and decorate!
o Explore ambiguities e.g. Heavy Plant Crossing, they are cooking apples, police shot man
Star fillers
with knife, Baby Changing Room, and Danger Swimmers Keep Out
Summer Term
Word Level Work
o Spell unstressed vowels in polysyllabic words, e.g. company, portable, interest, description,
carpet, freedom, extra
o Investigate and create rules for modifying words ending in e, when adding ing/ful/ly
o Compile class dictionary for own slang words and give own definitions, e.g. mate.
