Year 5 English textbook

The complete Year 5 English textbook: 12 chapters, free to read online. Each chapter has clear explanations, worked examples, practice exercises and a check-up at the end of every chapter, with step-by-step answers you can reveal.

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  1. 1
    Suffixes: -cious, -tial, -ant, -able and -ationSpelling
  2. 2
    Prefixes: in-, dis-, de-, re-, auto- and bi-Spelling
  3. 3
    The Year 5-6 word list, silent letters and the dictionarySpelling
  4. 4
    Relative clauses and adverbials of time, place and causeGrammar
  5. 5
    Modal verbs, possibility and the perfect formGrammar
  6. 6
    Active and passive voice, subject and objectGrammar
  7. 7
    Brackets, dashes, commas and hyphensGrammar and punctuation
  8. 8
    Reading fiction: summarising and comparingReading
  9. 9
    Reading poetry and playsReading
  10. 10
    Reading non-fiction: retrieving, summarising and fact or opinionReading
  11. 11
    Writing stories and poemsComposition
  12. 12
    Writing non-fiction, cohesion and layoutComposition

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