Year 5 English Worksheets

More figurative language

Similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia.

More reading & comprehension

Main idea, evidence, inference, author's purpose.

Explore how historical, social, and cultural contexts shape the ideas and values represented in literature.

Develop and justify an opinion about a literary text using metalanguage to explain effects.

Share and justify personal responses to literary texts.

Develop elaborated personal responses; support opinions with specific textual evidence.

Examine how metaphor, personification, and anaphora work together to create meaning and effect.

More fill-in-the-blank

Independent and dependent clauses, phrases, modifiers.

More grammar practice

More parts of speech

More plurals

Higher-order synonyms, antonyms, homophones, words in context.

Sentence craft (advanced)

Extended vocabulary

More word study

Grammar — clauses

Modifiers & structure

Pronouns

Advanced punctuation

Word study

Understand how language choices reflect and shape social contexts, relationships, and roles.

Identify language that goes beyond bare assertion to consider opinions, sources, and evidence.

Understand how the starting point of a sentence or paragraph creates cohesion across a text.

Analyse how sequences of images in print, digital, and film texts create meaning and effect.

Examine the effect of strongly evaluative language; identify bias and covert evaluation in texts.

Combine clauses using coordination and subordination; understand relative clauses.

Build academic vocabulary across subject areas; analyse connotation, denotation, and shades of meaning.

Tricky multi-syllable words, double letters, common misspellings.

Understand that texts reflect the time, place, and circumstances in which they were created.

Identify and explain the characteristic features of imaginative, informative, and persuasive texts.

Navigate texts using skimming and scanning strategies to locate information efficiently.

Use comprehension strategies to evaluate ideas and information across a range of texts.

Spell less common plurals and understand how suffixes change the meaning and word class of base words.

Examine how texts with multiple purposes (inform + persuade) balance their aims for their audience.

Combine multiple strategies flexibly; make text-to-text and text-to-world connections while reading.

Plan, create and edit texts; combine and refine sentences with complex structures and linked ideas.

Write words accurately, applying spelling generalisations, letter patterns and word origins.