Our Class Text and Comprehension
In term 5, our reading comprehension lessons will be based upon our class text, “Queen Victoria’s Bathing Machine” by Gloria Whelan. Throughout this fiction text, we will learn about how Queen Victoria loved water but was too embarrassed to make her way to the water as Royalty are too regal to be seen in a swimsuit!
In term 6, we will be looking at Kennings Poems.
To find out more about this text, view our Queen Victoria’s Bathing Machine Knowledge Organiser.
For further information about the reading skills we will focus upon this term, please view “Darwin’s Sequential Reading Curriculum”
Independent Reading
In class, we will continue to use the Accelerated Reader program. For further information about this, please view a Parent’s Guide to Accelerated Reader. (https://help.renlearn.co.uk/AR/ARParentGuide) If you need your child’s AR password, please contact me (Miss Lett).
Writing
Over the course of the two terms, we will be writing: information leaflets, our own Kennings poems, descriptions of castles; and comic strips.
Firstly, we will write an information leaflet about Hampton Court Palace. The children will focus on their adjectives. and use expanded noun phrases to assist with this.
We will then write our very out kennings poems about famous monarchs. The grammatical focus for this piece will be turning verbs and nouns into compound nouns.
Then we will write a description of a castle using prepositional language and expanded noun phrases.
Finally, we will write comic strips about a particular Monarch and tell a narrative through humorous captions. Our focus will be using facts we have learnt.
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
Punctuation
This term we will ensure capital letters and full stops are used frequently in our writing; use a full range of punctuation such as a question mark and an exclamation mark; revise commas in a list; and introduce apostrophes for possession.
Grammar
Over the next two terms, we will learn to identify word classes in sentences; use complex adjectives to describe; revisit the four main sentence types; revisit tenses; use adverbs; and consolidate and use conjunctions independently.
Spellings
During our spelling lessons over the next two terms, we will revisit diagraphs and trigraphs; revisit compound words; introduce ‘k’ for the beginning of words; revisit ph and wh words; and look at pseudo words.
To view our weekly breakdown of our spellings, please view our Term 5 and Term 6 Homework Grid.
In addition to these weekly spelling rules, we will continue to learn and spell words from the Year 5 and 6 statutory spelling list.
For an overview of these spellings, please view the Spelling word list for Term 5 and 6.