Schoolsweb
Listen

Link to the DfCFS home page
The Standards Site - Raising Standards

This website is changing: Find out more.

Strand Quick Find

Year 5 - Understanding and interpreting texts

Blue emphasised text signifies end-of-year (EOY) objectives within Mathematics and Early Learning Goals (ELG) within Foundation Stage. In Years 1 to 6, Literacy does not have end-of-year (EOY) objectives.

  • Make notes on and use evidence from across a text to explain events or ideas
  • Infer writers' perspectives from what is written and from what is implied
  • Compare different types of narrative and information texts and identify how they are structured
  • Distinguish between everyday use of words and their subject-specific use
  • Explore how writers use language for comic and dramatic effects