Year 5 English (WA)

Core Program

A comprehensive course that develops your child’s potential in the key subject area of English. Each lesson contains 90 minutes dedicated to developing literacy.

Course Goals
  • Develop advanced literal and inferential comprehension skills
  • Develop competency and creativity in writing across a range of text types
  • Develop superior spelling skills
  • Develop an advanced vocabulary
  • Develop grammar, usage and punctuation skills
Course Structure
  • 4 terms in a year, 10 weeks in a term
  • 1.5 hour lessons per week, during term
  • Can be combined with Creative Writing (English + Creative Writing: 2 hour lessons per week)
  • Can be combined with Maths & General Ability (English + Maths & General Ability: 3 hour lessons per week)
  • Students attend lessons at their allocated time schedule
  • Small class group based
  • Experienced educators
Course Outline

Term 1
Week 1 — Comprehension, vocabulary,
Week 2 — Comprehension, vocabulary, Prefix Ex, proper noun, Lexicon
Week 3 — Word derivations, Collective nouns, Prepositions
Week 4 —
Week 5 —
Week 6 —
Week 7 —
Week 8 —
Week 9 —
Week 10 —

Term 2
Week 1 — Comprehension, vocabulary, idioms, Possessive, Pointing & comparing Adjective
Week 2 — Comprehension, vocabulary, adjectival phrases, comprehension – Advertisements
Week 3 — Comprehension, vocabulary, adjectival phrases, Lexicon
Week 4 — Comprehension, vocabulary, word puzzle, More Verbs, Lexicon
Week 5 — Comprehension, vocabulary, Verbs – II, more lexicons
Week 6 — Comprehension, vocabulary, fun with idioms, simple past tense verbs
Week 7 — Comprehension, vocabulary, improve lexicon, compound verbs, poetry
Week 8 — Term Test, Comprehension, vocabulary, participles
Week 9 — Comprehension, vocabulary, Helping verbs & participles part
Week 10 — Comprehension, vocabulary, helping verbs & participles-II, Lexicon

Term 3
Week 1 — Comprehension, vocabulary, Verb activities, spelling, puzzles & general knowledge
Week 2 — Present participles, idioms, comprehension skills, understanding of logic
Week 3 — Comprehension, vocabulary, analysing descriptive writing, past participles
Week 4 — Comprehension, vocabulary, Adverbs, poetry analysis, advanced synonyms
Week 5 — Comprehension, vocabulary, advanced synonyms, Adverbs, Poetry analysis
Week 6 — Comprehension, vocabulary, Idioms, spelling, contractions
Week 7 — Comprehension, vocabulary, Term test, adverbs, synonyms, spelling skills
Week 8 — Term Test, Comprehension, vocabulary, idioms & word fun, spelling skills
Week 9 — Comprehension, vocabulary, metaphors, poetry interpretation
Week 10 — Comprehension, vocabulary, rebus, rhymes, using adjectives & adverbs

Term 4
Week 1 — Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling test, puzzling palindromes, adverbs
Week 2 — Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling test, modal adverbs, idioms
Week 3 — Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling test, origin of English, adverbial phrases
Week 4 — Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling test, Australiana, adverbial phrases – II
Week 5 — Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling test, solve the puzzle, clauses
Week 6 — Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling test, synonyms, simple & compound sentences – I
Week 7 — Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling test, prefix “dis”, simple & compound sentence – II
Week 8 — Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling test, complex sentences,
Week 9 — Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling test, prefixes, suffixes & root words, clauses
Week 10 — Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling test, prefixes, suffixes & root words – II, punctuation importance

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