By the end of Year 5, children who are working at age related expectations should be able to:

Reading

• Summarise main points of an argument or discussion within their reading and make up own mind about issue/s.

• Compare between two texts

• Appreciate that people use bias in persuasive writing.

• Appreciate how two people may have a different view on the same event.

• Draw inferences and justify with evidence from the text.

• Vary voice for direct or indirect speech.

• Recognise clauses within sentences.

• Explain how and why a writer has used clauses to add information to a sentence.

• Use more than one source when carrying out research.

• Create a set of notes to summarise what has been read.

Writing

• Add phrases to make sentences more precise and detailed.

• Use range of sentence openers – judging the impact or effect needed.

• Begin to adapt sentence structure to text type.

• Use pronouns to avoid repetition.

• Indicate degrees of possibility using adverbs (e.g. perhaps, surely) or modal verbs (e.g. might, should, will).

• Use the following to indicate parenthesis: brackets; dashes; comma

• Use commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity.

• Link clauses in sentences using a range of subordinating and coordinating conjunctions.

• Use verb phrases to create subtle differences (e.g. she began to run).

• Consistently organise into paragraphs.

• Link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time (e.g. later), place (e.g. nearby) and number (e.g. secondly).

• Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed.

Mathematics

• Count forwards and backward with positive and negative numbers through zero.

• Count forwards/backwards in steps of powers of 10 for any given number up to 1,000,000.

• Compare and order numbers up to 1,000,000.

• Compare and order numbers with 3 decimal places.

• Read Roman numerals to 1,000.

• Identify all multiples and factors, including finding all factor pairs.

• Use known tables to derive other number facts.

• Recall prime numbers up to 19.

• Recognise and use square numbers and cube numbers.

• Recognise place value of any number up to 1,000,000.

• Round any number up to 1,000,000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 or 100,000.

• Round decimals with 2 decimal places to nearest whole number and 1 decimal place.

• Add and subtract numbers with more than 4-digits using formal written method.

• Use rounding to check answers.

• Multiply 4-digits by 1-digit/ 2-digit

• Divide up to 4-digits by 1-digit

• Multiply and divide whole numbers and decimals by 10, 100 and 1,000

• Recognise and use thousandths.

• Recognise mixed numbers and improper fractions and convert from one to another.

• Multiply proper fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers.

• Identify and write equivalent fractions.

• Solve time problems using timetables and converting between different units of time