Our tutors will teach Year 5 students following the Australian curriculum, ensuring they develop advanced skills in reading, writing, and communication. By the end of Year 5, students interact with others, sharing and expanding on ideas, using supporting details from texts or topics. They read, view, and comprehend texts designed to inform, influence, and engage, explaining how ideas are developed through characters, settings, and events. They create written and multimodal texts for various audiences, using complex sentences, paragraphs, and topic-specific vocabulary. Their spelling uses a strong understanding of phonics, morphemic, and grammatical knowledge.
Language:
Year 5 students learn to use language for different social contexts, recognising how it signals roles and relationships. They understand text structures for narrative, persuasive, and informative purposes and use grammar features like complex sentences and precise vocabulary to convey ideas clearly. Students also explore the role of imagery and the history of words, using these insights to enrich their language use.
Literature:
Students engage with literature by discussing how stories reflect cultural, historical, and social contexts, including those by First Nations Australian authors. They analyse how literary devices like similes, metaphors, and personification enhance meaning and create mood. Students experiment with these techniques in their own creative writing, building their understanding of narrative structure, characterisation, and descriptive language.
Literacy:
Students practise listening and speaking in discussions, using paraphrasing and questioning to clarify ideas and present opinions. They analyse how language and visuals target different audiences, and read a variety of texts fluently, using comprehension strategies to extract meaning. Writing tasks include creating and editing texts, using detailed paragraphs, complex sentences, and appropriate grammar. They also focus on refining their spelling and expanding their vocabulary through the study of word origins and spelling patterns.