In Year Five, the children continue to develop their reading and writing skills through the use of rich texts and curriculum topics.

High quality texts used in Year Five to develop reading and writing skills are:

• Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian.
• The Explorer ny Katherine Rundell.
• Tales of three brothers from the Tales of Beedle Bard by J. K. Rowling.
• Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo.

Other reading and writing Stimuli:

Our Narrative poetry based on what we have learnt from the Tales of 3 Brothers (J. K. Rowling)