English · Year 5

Tell facts apart from opinions and notice how informative texts are organised.

⏱ 20 min · 12 questions

Choose the right word when words sound the same but are spelled differently.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Find the main idea of a text and read between the lines to infer meaning.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Understand sayings that mean something different from their words.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Combine ideas into longer sentences using joining words.

⏱ 18 min · 7 questions

Discover how writers give human actions and feelings to non-human things.

⏱ 17 min · 7 questions

Work out whether a text is written to inform, persuade or entertain.

⏱ 17 min · 7 questions

Explore sound words and repeated beginning sounds in writing.

⏱ 18 min · 7 questions

Pick out the most important ideas and retell a text in fewer words.

⏱ 18 min · 7 questions

Use who, which and that to add extra information to a sentence.

⏱ 18 min · 7 questions

Use a colon to introduce a list and a semicolon to join close ideas.

⏱ 14 min · 6 questions

Words like can, might, must and should that show how likely or necessary something is.

⏱ 13 min · 6 questions

Linking words like however, firstly and therefore that guide the reader.

⏱ 14 min · 6 questions

Repeating sounds for effect and exaggerating for impact in writing.

⏱ 13 min · 6 questions

Use pairs of commas to add extra information inside a sentence.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Notice the mood a text creates and the author's tone.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Spot words that judge or rate things and use them in opinions.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Read quickly to find the gist or to locate specific information.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Add detail before and after a noun to build rich noun groups.

⏱ 18 min · 7 questions

Recognise when a story jumps to the past or hints at what's coming.

⏱ 18 min · 7 questions

Tell nouns you can sense apart from nouns that name ideas and feelings.

⏱ 15 min · 7 questions

Find similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic.

⏱ 18 min · 7 questions

Ask questions before, during and after reading to understand a text better.

⏱ 15 min · 7 questions

Notice how a sentence can hide or move the doer of an action.

⏱ 15 min · 7 questions

Discover how authors use objects to stand for bigger ideas.

⏱ 15 min · 7 questions

Pull out keywords and write short notes instead of full sentences.

⏱ 15 min · 7 questions

Make sure each pronoun clearly points to the right noun.

⏱ 20 min · 7 questions

Replace vague words with precise ones to sharpen your writing.

⏱ 15 min · 7 questions

Tell the difference between first-person and third-person narration.

⏱ 15 min · 7 questions

Tell the main idea of a paragraph from the details that support it.

⏱ 20 min · 7 questions

Match pronouns to the nouns they replace in number and gender.

⏱ 20 min · 7 questions

Keep a paragraph on topic with a topic sentence and linked supporting sentences.

⏱ 20 min · 7 questions

Recognise how a writer can stretch one metaphor across several lines.

⏱ 20 min · 7 questions

Tell a claim from its evidence and judge whether evidence supports it.

⏱ 20 min · 7 questions

Use phrases that begin with a preposition to add when, where and how.

⏱ 20 min · 7 questions

Tell apart the possessive 'its' and the contraction 'it's'.

⏱ 15 min · 7 questions

Use signal words to show how two things are similar and different.

⏱ 20 min · 7 questions

Notice words that try to sway your opinion in a text.

⏱ 20 min · 7 questions

Identify whether a sentence is written in the active or passive voice.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Discover nominalisation: changing verbs and adjectives into nouns.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions