English is the Key Learning Area where students develop knowledge, skills and understandings about English language and literature. The students will be actively engaged in the development of skills through:

This term in English, Year 5 will: 

• Write Better Sentences - Simple, Compound and Complex

• Investigate a mentor sentence each week

• Use spelling strategies where we recognise the sounds in unknown words and implement our knowledge of graphemes to spell them correctly

• Recognise how authors develop characters in their writing and use these strategies in our own writing

In this unit, students will further develop their understanding of how a sentence is formed and how to link more than one sentence in a text to produce a description of a character. Students will focus on a grammar perspective with the use of nouns, adjectives, descriptive language, verbs (past and present) and time connectives. Students will also continue to develop their use of reading cues and punctuation to enhance fluency when reading.

SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD’S LEARNING in ENGLISH