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Learning Outcomes for
Grade 5 English
At the end of Grade 5, pupils should be able to:
Listening
• Show appreciation for a wider range of aural texts
• Understand and respond to aural input/texts with increasing confidence and appreciation
• Follow discussion on topics being taught
• Recognise variations in register
• Begin to recognise variations in register
• Begin to infer meaning from the texts
• Listen to and respect divergent views on topic
Speaking
• Communicate with growing confidence and clarity on familiar topics
• Use different forms of sentences
• Use a wider range of vocabulary correctly
• Relate events/incidents from everyday life in a coherent manner
• Willingly participates in a variety of oral activities in class
• Self-correct and attempt to rephrase utterances
• Ask and answer open-ended questions
• Support opinions by giving simple reasons or examples
• Show awareness of the need to change register and tone according to the situation.
Reading
• Show interest in reading a variety of genres and media
• Engage in silent reading spontaneously, more frequently and for longer periods
• Understand texts without illustrations
• Derive meaning from different types of texts
• Further develop word attack skills
• Understand complex sentences
• Read-on despite the presence of unfamiliar words
• Follow development of ideas in texts
• Derive meaning from grammatical items
• Vary tone, intonation and pace when reading aloud.
Writing
• Show increasing interest in writing
• Begin to produce extended texts with/without the help of a writing frame
• Engage in individual or shared writing activities
• Produce different texts using appropriate format
• Start to follow stages of process writing
• Use simple cohesive devices to structure writing
• Use a range of vocabulary appropriate to the situation and topic
• Begin to use the computer to type short texts, spell check and edit work