Year 5 Reading Curriculum
What is my child’s experience of reading in Year 5?
Just like in Year 2, 3 and 4, children begin each term by exploring an exciting book together during whole class guided reading, for example ‘The incredible Ecosystems of Planet Earth’ by Rachel Ignotofsky. While the class share each book, they also develop their reading fluency and reading inference skills (understanding what is implied rather than directly stated). Children also keep reading journals in which they reflect on their reading and carry out activities inspired by the book they are sharing.
Unique to Year 5... is that children take part in a special reading project with an outside organisation. In the past, we have worked with Collected Works CIC, Jubilee Library, and BookTrust. We are always looking out for our next exciting project!
All children:
- are frequently read to by the class teacher;
- experience high quality books during guided reading;
- regularly read aloud to a reading partner or an adult during guided reading;
- keep a reading journal;
- visit the school library regularly;
- can take a book form the class library and the school library;
- keep a log of all the books they read at home and at school.
Phonics interventions:
- Children who are consolidating Bug Club units 1 to 11 take part in a phonics intervention and continue to have 1:1 reading with an adult using books appropriate to their Bug Club level.
- Children still not secure up to unit 27 continue to use Bug Club phonics packs and Bug Club Guided Reading sets. These can then be supplemented using colour banded reading sets from turquoise and above. These children continue to access to the Bug Club e-books.
- Children taking part in interventions continue to keep a reading diary.
What can I do to support my child with reading in Year 5?
Please continue to read aloud to your child and do ‘turn-taking’ at bedtime – this is not just for younger children! Give your child space and time to read alone. Make sure your child has access to plenty of texts – fiction and non-fiction - on many different topics and by a wide range of authors. Ask us for support with this! Have fun learning the meaning of unfamiliar words that you spot and try them out in new sentences. If you feel confident, read difficult texts to your child, and allow them the chance to listen and ask questions.
Useful questions to ask:
What quality books do we use in our Reading Curriculum?
We think very carefully about the books we share as a whole class and during guided reading. We understand that the books we choose don't just develop reading skills, they can also open up the wider curriculum and enable pupils to acquire the subject knowledge, vocabulary and ideas necessary to thrive in different subjects. Therefore, we are currently increasing the number of sets of books that link to the wider curriculum in each year group.
The grid below shows some of the key texts that we enjoy in Year 5.
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‘Saxon Britain’ by Tony D. Triggs ‘Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in Britain’ by Haydn Middleton ‘Be your own Map Expert’ by Barbara Taylor ‘Maps and Mapping’ by Deborah Chancellor ‘Questions and Answers – Stars and Planets’ by Robin Kerrod ‘Earth and Beyond’ by Dr Brian Knapp ‘Sun, Moon and Stars’ by Stephanie Turnbull ‘Amulet’ by Ted Hughes ‘Civil war on the Moon’ by Ted Hughes ‘Beowulf’ by A Horowitz ‘Sick Building by Paul Magrs ‘A fire in the forest’ by W.W.E. Ross ‘Butterfly Lion’ by Michael Morpurgo 'Jack Pepper’ by Sarah Lean ‘Sideways Stories from Wayside School’ by Louis Sachar |
‘Thief’ by Malorie Blackman ‘Forces in Action’ by Dr Brian Knapp 'Forces and Energy’ by Alan Ward ‘Powerful forces’ by Rob Colson and Jon Richards ‘The Kraken’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson ‘What I love about School’ by Roger McGough ‘The Kraken’ by Gary Crew and Marc McBride ‘The Asrai’ by Pat Thomas 'Where People Live’ by Angela Royston ‘Everdark’ by Abi Elphinstone ‘Room 13’ by Robert Swindells ‘The Lost Diary of Erik Bloodaxe, Viking Warrior’ by Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore ‘The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day’ by Christopher Edge |
‘Tuesday’ by David Wiesner ‘The history of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton’ by Frederick Ernest’ ‘Royal Pavilion’ by Martyn Goff ‘North America’ by Madeline Donaldson ‘Introducing North America’ by Chris Oxlade ‘Discover and Learn: Geography – North and South America Study Book’ by CGP ‘Lifecycles’ by Dr Brian Knapp ‘The Highwayman’ by Alfred Noyes ‘Last night I saw the city breathing’ by Andrew Fusek-Peters ‘No One is Too Small to Make a Difference’ by Greta Thunberg ‘Population and Settlement’ by Izzi Howell 'The case of the Drowned Pearl' by Robin Stevens ‘Circus of Thieves and the Raffle of Doom’ by William Sutcliffe Malamander’ by Thomas Taylor |
