Year 5 English Bundles

All bundles have 12 months access from date of purchase and details of 'Common Tricky Word' and 'homophone' spellings.

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Unless there is only one tutorial, each bundle (excluding genre writing) will have an ‘end-of-topic’ assessment. You may like to complete this at the start and end of the bundle to see how much your child has grown in confidence and ability.

Tutorials are all taken from our main Curriculum Steps Programme so the PDF week numbers and spellings relate to this programme.

  • How to identify different sentence types and use a variety of punctuation

    Identifying different types of sentences and appropriate punctuation

    Punctuating direct speech

    Using apostrophes correctly (contracted and possession)

    Using hyphens to connect words

    Using semicolons and colons

    Using ellipses

  • How to create more complex sentences using different techniques

    Using adverbial phrases/fronted adverbials (of time, place, frequency, manner) with appropriate commas

    Recognising nouns and adjectives

    Extending description using noun phrases

    Extending sentences using coordinating conjunctions

    Adding subordinate clauses using subordinating conjunctions

    Recognising subordinate clauses and main clauses

    Adding relative clauses and use of parenthesis

  • How to spell using suffixes

    Spelling words using suffixes -cious, -tious

    Spelling words using suffixes -cial, -tial

  • How to spell homophones, using suffixes and other spelling rules

    Spelling using suffixes -ant, -ance, -ancy, -ent, -ence, -ency

    Spelling using suffices -able, -ably, -ible, -ibly

    Spelling using suffix -fer

    Spelling using ‘i’ before ‘e’ rule

    Spelling using silent letters and unusual spellings using ‘ough’

    Using word class/term patterns to help with homophone spelling

  • Writing, and converting, direct and reported speech

    Converting between direct and reported speech

  • Identifying word terms

    Recognising and using adverbs and adverbs of possibility

    Recognising ‘modal’ verbs

    Categorising five different types of noun

    Recognise adjectives, verbs, determiners and prepositions

    Recognising different types of pronoun

  • How to write in different genre

    Planning and writing a story

    Using techniques for adding atmosphere and suspense

    Building a setting and character description

    Balancing pace and flow in a story

    Getting started, and use of cliff hangers to hook the reader in

    Writing about emotions

    Editing work

    Planning and writing non-fiction writing

    Planning and writing a newspaper article using reported speech

    Planning and writing persuasive text

    Analysing and reviewing poetry

  • Identifying tenses, active and passive sentences and the use of paragraphs

    Recognising tenses (past, present, future)

    Recognising and converting tenses: present perfect, past perfect, simple present, simple past, progressive present and progressive past

    Understanding use of paragraphs

    Identifying the subject and object of a sentence

    Identifying active and passive sentences, and converting between the two