Year 5 Literacy Indicators

Comprehending texts through listening; Composing texts through speaking LS5

Text Knowledge
i. Identify purposes for listening and speaking, select
and modify text structures and language features
appropriate for the content and context
Text Knowledge
ii. Plan, research, rehearse and deliver spoken
presentations specific to learning areas by:
taking notes, identifying key ideas and information
applying the stages and characteristics of spoken text
structures
selecting multimodal resources to influence audience
reaction



Comprehension

iii. Communicate to :
summarise and analyse information relevant to key
ideas or concepts
refine ideas and information
identify evaluative language (positive or negative
language that judges the worth of something) and bias
(prejudice in favour of or against)



Comprehension

iv. Compose, contribute and respond in different
settings by considering how spoken language features
and non-verbal cues affect meaning


Comprehension

v. Use interaction and communication skills to
contribute to and extend discussions by:
clarifying ideas
offering explanations for a point of view
introducing topics using agreed protocols


Grammar Knowledge

vi. Use words and word groups in increasingly
complex sentences, including correct verb tense

Word Knowledge

vii. Use new learning area vocabulary to provide
specific meaning






Comprehending texts through viewing and reading VR5

Text Knowledge

i. View, read, navigate and select texts for specific
personal, social and learning purposes

Text Knowledge
ii. View and read written, visual and multimodal learning
area texts that:
use chapters, text boxes, home pages and subpages,
topic sentences and paragraphs organised according to
chronology to assist navigation and enhance readability
connect relationships between ideas and concepts within
and between texts

Comprehension
iii. Use text-processing strategies when viewing and
reading, including:
skimming and scanning texts
comparing content from sources
analysing similarities and differences

Comprehension

iv. Independently view and read and demonstrate
understanding of learning area texts by:
synthesising information to link ideas across texts
interpreting, analysing and justifying ideas from literal
and inferred ideas and information

Grammar Knowledge

v. Identify and describe words and word groups that
represent ideas and relationships, including main and
subordinate clauses within sentences

Word Knowledge

vi. Independently read with fluency words of significance,
specialised learning area vocabulary and terminology

Word Knowledge

vii. Predict and confirm the meaning of unfamiliar words
and decode them using and combining cues within
different texts containing new language features, content
and ideas and complex sentences, vocabulary and visual
features

Visual Knowledge

viii. Compare and analyse how visual features:
enhance and clarify meaning, including sequences of
images in print texts
are organised in hyperlinked digital texts, explaining the
effect on viewers interpretations






Composing texts through writing and creating WC5

Text knowledge

i. Identify the purpose, content, context, text structure and
writerreader relationships when writing and creating
learning area texts

Text knowledge
ii. Write and create learning area texts, demonstrating
increasing control and using modelled structures to
organise information

Text knowledge
iii. Plan, draft and publish texts using strategies including:
understanding how writers innovate on text structures
organising main ideas and supporting details using key
questions or graphic organisers
using features such as text boxes, topic sentences,
home pages and subpages to aid navigation and usability
editing for meaning and structure using agreed criteria

Text knowledge
iv. Write paragraphs that maintain the pace or sense of
texts, and organise texts using structures including:
problem and solution
cause and effect
compare and contrast

Grammar Knowledge
v. Build meaning within paragraphs by using:
sentences to sequence information and join main ideas
and supporting details
pronouns to maintain cohesion within sentences and
paragraphs

Grammar Knowledge
vi. Use words and word groups including:
extended noun groups, phrases and adjectives to extend
ideas and information
adverbs or phrases to add detail to actions and thoughts
verbs to show certainty, probability or obligation

Grammar Knowledge
vii. Write using sentence structures that include:
main and subordinate clauses (a group of words that
cannot stand alone in a sentence)
conjunctions to link clauses

Word Knowledge

viii. Communicate intended meaning using punctuation,
including:
commas to join clauses
accurate use of commas, question marks, capitalisation
and exclamation marks within quotation marks

Word Knowledge
ix. Proofread and edit writing, using knowledge of editing
techniques

Word Knowledge
x. Select learning area vocabulary that:
clarifies meaning
has different meanings in different contexts
Word Knowledge

xi. Confirm spellings, word meanings or word choice using
knowledge about:
spelling patterns and the spelling system
etymology (knowledge of word histories and origins)
technical words, including nominalisations, developed
from prior learning, reading or research about the content
digital and print thesauruses

Visual Knowledge
xii. Use visual features to enhance and clarify meaning
and express and extend ideas and information, e.g. flow
charts, cross-sections