Year 5

Character Flaws

In term 3, Year 5 is learning to write interesting villains! We will meet a variety of children's literature's best bad guys and analyse the techniques excellent writers use to create these engaging evildoers!

Our model text "The Naïve Scoundrel" might be familiar to fans of Arabic folklore (or Disney films).

Lesson 2 - Model Text and Vocabulary.pptx

Journey Stories

This half term, Year 5 is learning how to write journey stories and use quality dialogue to drive the action forward. This unit will also tie in with the IPA topic of the Maya people in Mexico. Our model text "The Chocolate Maker's Son" features a young boy named Aapo who sets out on a perilous journey to help his father. 

The Chocolate Maker's Son Widgits.pdf

Tales of Fear

In this unit, the Year 5 children will embark on a thrilling journey by writing their very own 'Tale of Fear.' From spine-chilling narratives to mysterious settings, our students will unleash their imagination, weaving tales that captivate and send shivers down the reader's spine.

Review the model story 'Alma' below:

ALMA widgits.pdf

Here is a Wordwall activities where the children put the evens of the story in order.

To play a Quizlet with the Magpie Words, visit this link: https://quizlet.com/vn/855299337/alma-flash-cards/?i=3hq5q4&x=1jqt


Super Speeches

In this unit, we are learnign to amazing public speakers, writing our own pursuasive speech and learning the techniques to deliver it with confidence and style. Here is the example speech we are learning full of great features we can borrow.

Airport Speech with Widgits (1).pdf

TopTips for Successful Speeches

Watch Climate Activist Greta Thunburg's speech to the United Nations. What techniques did she use for a powerful speech?

Travel Documentaries

This term, we will be collaborating to create a documentary about our class' International Week country of choice. Our completed videos will be used to introduce visiting countries to our class country. We will be using persuasive language and developing control of the present simple and present perfect tenses while maintaining verb agreement. The unit will also challenge us to balance entertainment and information, as well as sharpening our multimedia skills.

Model Video and Text

Ha Long Bay Model.mov
HA LONG BAY SCRIPT - Student Copy.docx

Present Perfect V3 review

In order to use the Present Perfect in our documentary scripts, we need to remember the V3 (Past Particple) of irregular verbs.

Find V3 Quizlet sets with unlimited number of reviews (along with other useful resources) by joining Mr Paul's Quizlet class.

https://quizlet.com/join/zsNpjhH9U

Character Flaws

No one is perfect; everyond has flaws. In the first half of Term 3, we will be looking at developing interesting and realistic characters with their own flaws.

Through their speech, thoughts and actions, we will help our readers have a window into our characters.

Here are the class texts we will be learning this term.

2023 Extract from Aladdin - T4W Character Flaw Text (1).docx

Version 1

Story with words.pdf

Version 2

Journey Stories

In Term 2, we will be writing Journey Stories. Our characters will travel long distances and encounter all kinds of challenges to reach their destination and find what they have been looking for!

Class Texts

Our model text for this Talk4write unit is "The Clockmakers Son". Here are copies of the class text.

EAL copy The Clockmaker's Son Tier 2&3 text.docx

Version 1

Tier 1 Story with words.pdf

Version 2

Dialogue


To let our characters speak, we need to use dialogue in our stories. Another word for the way we write this is 'direct speech'. Do you remember these important parts of direct speech?

Do you remember this comic page from our EAL lesson? Look at what the Superman and The Flash are saying and practise dialogue by playing this wordwall game. These sentences include information about what the characters are doing too.

Can you use 'as', 'whilst' and verb-ing to add actions to your characters speech in your stories?

Simple, Compound and Complex sentences

For this unit, we have been reviewing simple, compound and complex sentences. Find the presentations below to review what we learned in class. Below you can find some more games to practise

1 Simple Sentences slides
2 Compound sentences slides
Subordinating conjunctions

Thank you to all Year 5 Students for putting in so much effort and hard work this term in EAL. Have a lovely and a well deserved break, and I will see you in January!

Mr Paul

Tales of Fear

This term, we are writing Tales of Fear. We will be learning to hide the threat, and build a creepy atmosphere. How do we keep our readers in suspense? It's time to find out.

Tier 2 Into the Darkness.docx

Into the Darkness

This is the class text. We'll be using this text to explore suspense.

Widgit TEXT.pdf

Into the Darkness (Version 2)

Here is a Tier 1 version.

Past Simple

We've had a focus on past simple. It can be easy to forget to use the past tense of the verbs, especially if verbs don't change form in your language. Use the Quizlet Sets below to review some of the most common irregular verbs (with some regular verbs thrown in to make it harder!).

Persuasive Speech

In Term 1.2, we will be studying persuasion. The children will choose a topic they care about, and write a speech to persuade others to their point of view. 

Tier 2 Simplified Airport Text.docx

A New Airport

Badgers creek widgit text.pdf

 A New Airport

simplified text

PEEL and AFOREST

AFOREST

PEEL

Here is a reminder of the structures we have been using this term. Include features of AFOREST to make your speech more persuasive. Use PEEL to remember how to structure each paragraph to make your argument strong!

Present Simple

When talking about how the world is in our speeches, we very often need to use the present tense. It's easy to forget that we have to make the verbs agree. Here's a couple of activities to practise verb agreement and the meaning of present simple.

Practise meaning

Present simple is used to talk about things that are still true. They're not finished. Sort these sentences into things that happen again and again, and those that are always true.

Welcome to Year 5 2022/23

Dear students and parents. Welcome to Year 5! 

I am Mr Paul, and I will be your EAL teacher this year. I'm looking forward to getting to know you! Below, you will find our first English unit: "Lost and Found". As we learn together, I will add lots of games, activities and resources to help you practise and remember what we have studied.

Lost and Found

This term we will be reading and writing Lost and Found stories. By the end of the unit, students will be able to write their own lost and found story using imaginative vocabulary and describe vivid settings using figurative language like similes, metaphors and personification

A new beginning Y5 T4W

A New Beginning

Class Text

A New Beginning Tier 1 text.pdf

A New Beginning version 2

Magpie words

Play this wordwall game to review the magpie words for from our Talk for Write story: A New Beginning.

2021/2022    Below, you will see resources from last year. You can have a look if you want, but everything above will be more useful for you!

Character Flaws

What makes an interesting character? Strong, clever and kind? YAWN!

Flaws are things about us that aren't perfect. All the most interesting characters have at least one thing they are not proud of, something they might wish they could change. They are flawed.

This term we're looking at stories from the perspectives of different characters, and making sure we make our characters real by including flaws.

The Naive Scoundrel_original.docx

Class story

naive scoundrel storymap with words.pdf

Class story (version 2!)

Embedded clauses

In this unit, we have thought about how to show-not-tell information about our characters feelings and personalities. One way to add more information to a sentence is with embedded clauses. 


Play this rearrange game to practise.

Tale of Fear

In Term 2, we will be writing a tale of fear! How do writers build suspense? How can we make our readers feel like something is about to happen? This term, we'll be trying our hand at language to do this. Below, you can find the text and story maps for our class story: "Into the Darkness".

Into the Darkness Story Map.pdf

Into the Darkness

T1 storymap with words landscape.pdf

Into the Darkness (simplified)

Magpie words

There is some fantastic vocabulary in "Into the Darkness". Can you figure out the meaning of these words? Practise using the Quizizz game here!

Magpie words:

Simple, compound and complex sentences

In January, we have been reviewing sentence grammar. Students can sometimes forget to put full stops at the end of a sentence. It can also be difficult to know how we can make longer sentences by linking ideas together. Below are some reminders of some of the grammar we have looked at this term. There are also lots of Wordwall games to practise!

Simple sentences

How do we know where a sentence ends? What does every sentence need?

The simplest sentences must have:

a) Subject + Verb

OR

b) Subject + Verb + Object

In the game below decide if the sentences have a subject, a verb and an object, or just a subject and verb.

EXTRA CHILLI CHALLENGE: Can you add any adjectives or add any more information to the sentences in the game?


Compound sentences

We can make longer sentences by using conjunctions to connect two sentences together.

The conjunctions below are used instead of a full stop to join two sentences. Joining two parts in this way makes a compound sentence.

Play the game below to practise using the most common of these conjunctions.

Complex sentences

We can make complex sentences just like compound sentences: we link two ideas with a conjunction. 

One big difference is that the idea that we link cannot stand on its own. It's meaning depends on the main sentence. 

Below are some games to practise using some of the most common of conjunctions to make complex sentences.

Here is the song we listened to: "You're a Mean One, Mr Grinch". It uses a lot of similes and metaphors to describe how bad he is!

Can you spot these simile and metaphor structures in the song?

Similes

You're as  [adjective] as a(n) [noun].

You have all the [noun] of a [noun]

Metaphors

You're a [noun]

You have [noun] in your [noun]

You're a [noun] with [noun]

Synonyms for 'bad'

mean, nasty, vile, awful, deplorable, apalling, sinful, disgraceful

Here is the full story of "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas".

Nonsense Poems

Lullaby.pdf

In the first half of December, we read some nonsense poems.

We analysed the beat, rhyming and repetition of our group poem Lullaby. Here is the full poem.

We wrote our own poems using the same structure as "Lullaby" and performed for our classes!

Here are some top tips about performing poetry from the author Michael Rosen.

Explanation texts

In November, we will be learning about and writing our own explanation texts. We will describe a real-life process and explain how it works. Our model explanation text is taken from this half term's Science unit. It explains how flowering plants reproduce. Have a look at the class text (left) and a simplified version (right) below.

How do flowering plants reproduce?

Full version

Simplified explanation text.docx

Simplified version

Academic vocabulary - flowering plant reproduction

We learned about plant reproduction in Science. It is quite complicated. To explain it properly, we must use the proper scientific words.

Use this Word wall activity to practise the parts of a flower. 

Cause and effect conjunctions

In explanation texts, we have to explain WHY and HOW things happen. Cause-and-effect conjunctions show use how one thing caused another thing to happen. This makes them really useful.

Look at the examples below to review and then practise using them with the Quizizz underneath!

IF YOU CAN'T ACCESS THE GAME, TELL MR PAUL ON GOOGLE CHAT!

Play this quizziz game to practise cause-and-effect conjunctions. 

Choose the right conjunction to fit in the gap!

Present Simple and Verb Agreement

Incredible settings 

This term we will be looking at the settings in the stories we read. The settings of a story are the places it happens in. From fairy-tale castles and deep forests to spaceships and deserts. A setting could just be someone's house! How do writers help us to imaging these places? Look at the activities below for some more ideas.


What can we talk about?

What can we say about a place? Here are some ideas to help you get thinking.

Amazing Adjectives

Whenever we want to help a reader imagine something, adjectives help a lot! There are some awesome adjectives here. You could use a dictionary to look up some you're not sure about.

Click here to see a bigger version


Adjectives wordwall

We learned some fantastic adjectives in EAL. These are synonyms for adjectives that we often used. They are more interesting because you don't see them so often. Can you use some of these adjectives when you are describing settings in your stories? Test yourself on these words with the game below.

Expanded noun phrases

We can use expanded noun phrases to make our nouns much more descriptive. They make our writing more interesting too.

Look at the examples above. Each noun has adjectives (yellow) and a prepositional phrase (blue)

A prepositional phrase starts with a preposition. Here are some common prepositions we could use in an expanded noun phrase:

in    on    under    next to    with    by     at

Dialogue

To let our characters speak, we need to use dialogue in our stories. Another word for the way we write this is 'direct speech'. Do you remember these important parts of direct speech?

Past tense verbs

Stories are usually in the past tense. It can be difficult to remember how to form the past tense of a verb.

This Quizlet game will help you to memorise the most common verbs in the past tense. Click on the link and then choose 'LEARN'.

CLICK HERE TO START PRACTISING


POSTS BELOW ARE FOR LAST YEAR (Academic year 2020-2021)

Journey to Jo'burg - The story so far

Can you remember what happened in the story in chapters 1-8? Test your memory skills by completing the chapter summaries below. This activity is also useful in case you missed any of the chapters from your class reading.

Journey to Jo'burg Activities

Can you remember the characters in this picture?

Did you notice anything unfamiliar about the characters' names in the story? Have you heard these names before?

The names are all from a language called Tswana. This language is spoken by 5 million people in Southern Africa, including many people in the north of South Africa. Many of the names have interesting meanings in English - for example, Dineo (the baby sister) means "special gift" in Tswana.

Tswana people

When you read the book, look out for any new Tswana words that you can find. Often you will notice a tiny number next to the word, and at the bottom of the page you can learn the meaning in English.

Using the table below, see if you can match the Tswana words to their meanings in English:

Apartheid Vocabulary

In our English unit we are learning about the story "Journey to Jo'burg", which is set in South Africa. The story is set in the past, during a time called "Apartheid", which happened between 1948 and 1994.

So, what is Apartheid? (There is a clue in the word - apartheid)

Apartheid was a system which forced black people and white people to live apart (separate) from each other. Black and other non-white people did not have the same rights as white people.

Black people were not allowed to go into certain places, for example there were "whites-only" schools, bathrooms and buses.

Watch this video to learn more about Apartheid:

Quizlet - use the flashcards below to learn some important vocabulary related to apartheid.

Click "Choose a Study Mode" to choose some different fun ways to practise. How fast can you match? Why not test your knowledge?

February 2021 - Virtual Learning

We are continuing with our learning online - well done to everyone for joining your class chats and meets! 

Please read the expectations below to remind yourself of all the things you need to be a great virtual learner: 

Parents - check out the Parents Zone for advice on how to support your child at home with Virtual Learning.

25th - 29th January 2021

←  Can you see your country's flag? 

→  Use this activity to practise key vocabulary you can use to talk about countries.

After you have learned all of them using "Learn" mode, why not try a different Study Mode? How fast can you Match the words with their definitions? 

Generalisers are words or phrases that give us more information about a group of people or things. They usually tell us how often something happens, or how many/much of something there is.

See if you can sort the generalisers using this activity >

Year 5 EAL Persuasive Speeches Display

Year 5 EAL students' amazing work is now on display for all to see in the Year 5 corridor (outside Ms Eileen's classroom). We are so proud of them for producing such excellent work on topics that they are so passionate about!

You can see each speech below - can you find yours?

Persuasive Speeches

Year 5 have been learning how to write a speech to persuade their audience. 

"Persuade" means to cause someone to believe or do something, through reasoning or argument. There have been some incredible speeches throughout history, made by important public figures such as Martin Luther King Jr and Hillary Clinton. 

In order to make a great persuasive speech, we need to use persuasive devices in order to capture our listeners' imagination. We can remember these techniques by using AFOREST - how many can you remember?



We enjoyed trying to make short speeches for the first time! Why not spin the wheel and have a go yourself?

Explanation Texts

In this non-fiction unit, we have been learning the text 'How a toaster works', adapted from Roger McGough's 'Until I Met Dudley'.

Use the activity below to practise vocabulary from the text - match the words to the correct labels on the diagram.

Making Machines

To practise using the present simple tense in third person we made our own machines using the app "Inventioneers". The students then wrote sentences to explain how their machines work, being careful to check their grammar! Do you remember the rule? 

Lost & Found Stories

In this fiction unit, we have been learning the story "A New Beginning". In the story a young girl, Nyla, feels lost when she moves to a new home in a new city. Have you ever felt the same way as Nyla?

Use these activities to practise vocabulary from the story, and match nouns to the correct examples of personification:

Use the story map below to practise reading the text aloud. Can you remember all of it? Can you do some actions to help you to remember?

A New Beginning - Story Map