Year 5 Reading
Key Performance Indicators
- Applies a growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes as listed in English Appendix 1 -ible, -able, -cious, -cial, -ance, -ation when reading independently
- Reads at least half of the exception words in Appendix 1
- Checks that reading makes sense, discussing their understanding and exploring the meaning of new words in context
- Understands and uses technical terms needed for discussing reading such as imagery and the grammar terms in Appendix 2
- Summarises the main ideas drawn from across the text, identifying key and supplementary details
- Compares characters, settings and other aspects of what is read, drawing evidence from across the text
- Is familiar with the features of a wide range of fiction including myths, legends, traditional stories, modern fiction, classic fiction and from other cultures
- Retrieves, records and presents information from non-fiction in a variety of ways
- Makes comparisons within and across texts read on similar topics or themes
- Participates in presentations and debates about texts on similar and contrasting themes
Other Performance Indicators
- Uses a range of strategies to work out unfamiliar words on the run
- Accurately reads new vocabulary and technical terms which might be key to the meaning of a sentence or paragraph
- Demonstrates reading fluency across all subjects and not just in English
- In non-fiction, considers what information is needed and selects texts appropriately
- Knows how to use indexes and glossaries to locate information and applies these skills across the curriculum
- Prepares and recites longer poems by heart
- Recommends books read independently giving their reasons
Year 5 Writing
Key Performance Indicators
- Uses commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity such as with relative clauses
- Spells word endings -ant, -ance, - ancy, -ent, -ence, ency, correctly (Appendix 1 p66)
- Converts nouns or adjectives into verbs using suffixes (e.g. -ate, -ise, -ify)
- Ensures the consistent and correct use of tenses throughout a piece of writing
- Uses more sophisticated conjunctions to build cohesion within a paragraph and to link ideas
- Indicates degrees of possibility using adverbs (e.g. perhaps, surely) or modal verbs (e.g. might, should, will, must)
- Uses adverbials of time, place and number to link ideas across paragraphs
- In narratives integrates description, action and dialogue to advance the plot
- Uses organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader (e.g. headings, bullet points, tables etc)
- Demonstrates ways to create tension and atmosphere in narrative and poetry
Other Performance Indicators
- Handwriting is joined, legible and fluent
- Spells at least half the words in the Year 5/6 list and spelling rules taught in Appendix 1 (p66)
- Uses a thesaurus to select more ambitious vocabulary correctly and that fits the context
- Uses the grammar terminology for Year 5 set out in Appendix 2 (p78) when discussing writing
- Uses expanded noun and verb phrases to convey information more precisely
- Understands the differences between standard English and non-standard English and can apply what has been learnt, for example, in writing dialogue for characters
Year 5 Mathematics
Key Performance Indicators
- Read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 1 000 000 and determine the value of each digit
- Interpret negative numbers in context
- Count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers including through zero
- Add whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (columnar addition)
- Subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (columnar subtraction)
- Add or subtract mentally with increasingly large numbers
- Identify multiples and factors, including finding all factor pairs of a number, and common factors of two numbers
- Solve problems involving multiplication and division including using their knowledge of factors, multiples, squares
- and cubes
- Solve problems involving multiplication and division, including scaling by simple fractions and problems involving simple rates
- Compare and order fractions whose denominations are all multiples of the same number
- Read and write decimal numbers as fractions
- Read, write, order and compare numbers with up to 3 decimal places
- Solve problems which require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents of ½, ¼, 1/5, 2/5 and 4/5 and those with a denominator of 10 or 25
- Convert between different units of metric measure
- Measure and calculate the perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes
- Calculate and compare the area of rectangles (including squares) and including standard units, estimate the area of irregular shapes
- Draw given angles and measure them in degrees
- Distinguish between regular and irregular polygons based on reasoning about sides and angles
- Complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables
Other Performance Indicators
- Round any number up to 1 000 000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10 000 and 100 000
- Multiply numbers up to 4 digits by a one or two digit number using a formal written method, including long
- multiplication for two digit numbers
- Divide numbers up to 4 digits by a one digit number using the formal written method of short division and interpret remainders appropriately for the context
- Multiply and divide whole numbers and those involving decimals by 10, 100 and 1000
- Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator or denominators that are multiples of the same number
- Multiply proper fractions and mixed number by whole numbers, supported by material and diagrams
- Round decimals with decimals to the nearest whole number and to one decimal place
- Recognise the percent symbol and understand that % relates to number of parts per 100 and write percentages as a
- fraction with denominator of 100 and as a decimal
- Use all four operations to solve problems involving measure (for example, length, mass, volume and money) using decimal notation and scaling