Year 5Curriculum Afternoon Monday 9th February

2015

Spellings- In the new curriculum there is a heavy focus on

spellings- Weekly spellings are taken from band 5 – some

from band 4.- Spelling patterns for band 5

- Ough- Homophones- Words ending in – ant, -ent, -ancy, -ance, -ency,

ence.- Words ending in –ible, -able.- Words ending in –cious, tious.- Spell word endings which sound like ‘shil’ spelt –

cial or –tial - spell some words with ‘silent’ letters [for example, knight, psalm, solemn]

Grammar- Again there is a heavy focus on

grammar. I now teach grammar as part of the Literacy lesson.

Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, determiners, prepositions, modal verbs, clauses – main, subordinate/ relative, Sentence types, adverbials, connectives, apostrophes, commas, parentheses, hyphens, singular and plural.

Nouns There are 4 different types of nouns:- Common (dog, table, book)- Proper (Julie, China, England)- Collective (flock of birds, colony)- Abstract (excitement, anger)

- Pronouns (avoids repetition)- - I, you, she, it, who, they, he, them

Adjectives - Give information about the noun Beautiful, dangerous, colourful

You can have degrees of comparison Comparative (happier) Superlative (happiest)

Adverbs -Give information about the verb Quickly, nervously

Determiners -These come before nouns or noun

phrasesA, an, the, this, that, these, those

Prepositions- Link nouns or pronouns in a

sentence. They usually indicate when or where something happens

- About, above, across, after, under, behind, upon, over, between.

Modal Verbs These are used to show how likely we

believe things are to happen. We choose the verb depending on how sure we are.

Examples include can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would, won't will not, could not

Clauses There are two different types of

clauses, a main clause that can stand alone and can be written as a simple sentence

Eg. The man walked down the road A relative or subordinate clause that

cannot stand alone and adds extra information.

Eg. Who, which, that, The man, who sang happily to

himself, walked down the road

Sentence Types Simple sentence – The cat purred Compound – The cat purred and the dog chased after his bone

Complex – Although Charlie laughed, Emma stared to cry

Adverbials - This is a word or phrase that gives

more information about the verb They relate to time, place and

manner

After we had eaten dinner, (time) At the ice rink, (place) Carefully, (manner)

Apostrophes Possessive- The girl’s shoes Omission- Won’t, can’t, I’m

- Parenthesis- This is a word or phrase that is added as

an explanation to provide more information. They are usually punctuated by brackets, commas and dashes.

- E.g. She was lying (what a surprise) and no-one seemed to realise.

Singular and plural

Singular nouns represent one itemPlural nouns represent more than one!There are so many rules and many irregular plurals that the children need to learn

What can you do? The new curriculum is very

challenging and a lot of the focus has changed to grammar and spelling.

Please test your child regularly, including words that they had covered previously.

When they are reading/writing ask them what certain words are and can they explain it to you.

Read with your child regularly Help them to learn their times tables

by heart!