1. Parents’ Coffee Morning
Year 5 and 6
Parents’ Coffee Morning
English
Autumn Term 2016

2. Aims
To inform you of the Year 5 and 6 Reading, Writing and SPaG curriculum objectives
To provide ways to support your child at home
To explore websites and strategies for learning.

3. The national curriculum for English aims to ensure that all pupils:
read easily, fluently and with good understanding
develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information
acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language
appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage
write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting their language and style in and for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences
use discussion in order to learn; they should be able to elaborate and explain clearly their understanding and ideas
are competent in the arts of speaking and listening, making formal presentations, demonstrating to others and participating in debate.

4. Assessment descriptors
At Avenue, use the terms ‘EMERGING’, ‘EXPECTED’ and ‘EXCEEDING’ to describe your child’s attainment against the expected standard for their year group.
Emerging – means your child is working towards the expected standard for their year group
Expected – means your child is working at the expected standard for their year group
Exceeding – means your child is working at greater depth within the standard for their year group

6. The Year 2 and 6 criteria is statutory
The Year 2 and 6 criteria is statutory. The years inbetween have been collated by the school.

7. Writing objectives- Spelling
Year 5/6 focuses:
Prefixes and suffixes
Spell some words with ‘silent’ letters e.g. knowledge
Homophones and other confusing spellings e.g. which and witch
Use dictionaries to check the spelling and meaning of words
Use a thesaurus to find synonyms of a word.

8. Spelling Lesson Structure
Review- previous learning from other year groups or within the year group
Teach- explicitly teach spelling rules and share the common exception
words or word list
Practise- pupils work independently so that they can practise their new
learning
Apply- children complete an activity and apply their knew knowledge

9. Strategies to support at home
There are lots of ways to help children with spelling at home.
It is beneficial to provide a range of activities e.g. visual, kinaesthetic.
As well as the activities in the spelling support pack, children could also:
Write shopping list
Stick post-it notes around the house
Be tested on words at random times (in the car)
Discuss spellings when reading
Use a dictionary at home to help with independent spelling activities.

10. Useful websites Topmarks www.topmarks.co.uk Spell Zone
Kids Spell
Key Stage 2 Literacy

11. Writing objectives- punctuation
Year 5:
All year 4 punctuation (see handout)
Commas in a list
Apostrophes for contractions e.g. don’t instead of do not
Commas, brackets or dashes to show embedded clauses (parenthesis)
Use and understand the grammatical terminology.
Commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing

12. Writing objectives- punctuation
Year 6:
All year 5 expected punctuation (see handout)
Inverted commas to show direct speech
Commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing
Brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis
Hyphens to avoid ambiguity
Semi-colons, colons or dashes to mark boundaries between main clauses
Colon to introduce a list
Punctuating bullet points consistently
Use and understand the grammatical terminology.

13. Writing objectives- grammar
Year 5:
Adverbials of time, place and manner to link ides across paragraphs
Pronouns and nouns used to avoid repetition
A range of sentence starters including fronted adverbials
Some cohesive devices
Nouns and expanded noun phrases modified by prepositional phrases
Embedded clauses (parenthesis)
A range of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
Verb forms mostly accurate

14. Writing objectives- grammar
Year 6:
Use adventurous vocabulary to create atmosphere within writing
Recognise vocabulary and structures that are appropriate for formal speech and writing, including subjunctive forms
Cohesive devices including adverbials
Passive, active and modal verbs
Wide range of sentence structures
Expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases and adverbs to add detail, qualification and precision

15. How you can support with grammar and punctuation at home
IXL
uk.ixl.com
Oxford Owl
Primary Homework Help
primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/interactive/literacy2.htm
Fun English Games
Twinkl

16. Reading In Year 5 and 6, children enhance their
reading skills by focussing on three main areas.
Reading for pleasure
Read a range of genres that are structured in different ways
Making comparisons within and across books
Preparing and reading poetry by heart
Understanding texts
Ask questions to improve their understanding
Make predictions
Infer characters feelings, thoughts, actions
Summarising main ideas

17. Reading Discussion Discuss and evaluate how authors use language
Distinguish between statements of fact and opinion
Retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction
Challenge others’ views with own opinions
Provide reasoned justifications for their views
Reading is taught through either whole class comprehension lessons, where all children will focus on the same book and text, or through differentiated texts, where children work in a focus group with the class teacher.
Please see handout for full reading objectives covered.

18. How you can support with reading at home
Children should be reading everyday, either independently or to someone. They should be questioned on what they have read as many children can show good reading skills, but may not understand what they have read.
Use the questioning support in the reading support pack to help you with this.
Explain why a character did something.
Explain a character's different/changing feelings throughout a story. How do you know?
What are the clues that a character is liked/disliked/envied/feared/loved/hated etc…?
What is similar/different about two characters?
Why is 'x' (character/setting/event) question/bullet/subheading/table etc to present the information?
Where does it tell you that…?

19. How you can support with reading at home
Oxford Owl
Twinkl
Primary Resources

20. Any questions?