Year 5
At Sacred Heart, we use The Oxford Reading and Writing Criterion to aid us in our assessment of reading and writing skills.
These criteria describe the reading and writing journey that children make, from their first pre-writing behaviours through to a more complex and sophisticated understanding and mastery of writing skills. The reading and Writing Criterion Scales break down children’s development into small steps so that it is easy to identify the point children have reached, and the steps they need to make next in order to progress.
Although the criteria are set out in a rough hierarchy, every child’s reading and writing journey is different, so the Criterion Scales support a ‘best-fit’ teacher judgement against national expectations.
Reading end of year expectations:
By the end of Year 5, children should be able to:
Clarify the meaning of words in different contexts.
Skim and scan texts efficiently to identify and retrieve information.
Identify and discuss a range of fiction genres and share views and recommendations.
Compare and discuss information and/or ideas within and across texts.
Use inference and deduction to explore plot, character and mood and in more depth.
Identify and discuss the use of imagery in texts.
Justify and elaborate on thoughts and opinions, referring back to the text.
Recognize and discuss the appeal of some classic texts.
Essential Year 5 writing skills:
The following skills must be secured as a priority in Year 5/P6:
Produce more than a side of A4 writing that is clear and coherent with strong features and accurate interpretation of the stimulus and purpose.
Spell most common words on the Year 3 and 4 word lists correctly, plus all compound words and many complex words.
Show variety in sentence type and structure, including more sophisticated openings, adding detail and/or description and using a wider range of sophisticated connectives.
Use interesting language with a wide range of words that are ambitious for their age (occasional misuse is acceptable).
Use a wide range of punctuation accurately.
Use a wider range of connectives (conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions) to show time, place and cause.
Produce handwriting that is neat and joined.
Organise writing appropriately for the purpose, including using paragraphs.
Initiate edits and improvements to their work by proof reading what they have written.
Year 5 – end of year expectations:
By the end of Year 5/P6, children should be able to:
Show variety in sentence type and structure, including the confident use of a range of sentence openings, punctuation for effect and the inclusion of additional detail and/or description.
Use very interesting language with a wide range of words that are ambitious for their age and some literary features (e.g. alliteration, onomatopoeia, figurative language, etc.).
Use the full range of punctuation accurately (as and when appropriate).
Use a range of formal and informal styles or ‘voice’ when appropriate.
Use a wide range of connectives for the full range of purposes and begin to use more sophisticated connectives.
Produce handwriting that is fluent, neat and joined.
Organise writing appropriately, including the use of paragraphs and a range of organisational devices.
Initiate edits and improvements to their work by proof reading what they have written.