This Year 5 reading collection contains 13 weeks of planning. Use the resources to complete three lessons over the course of each week.
The resource list sets out each week’s theme, and there’s a separate PowerPoint for each day’s lesson. The text is linked to or included as a PDF. There are some instances where you’ll need to source the text yourself.
Year 5 reading themes
Here are some of the themes covered in this Year 5 reading scheme:
- Notable people – Ada Lovelace; John Archer; Tim Berners-Lee
- Novels – Kick by Mitch Johnson; Wonder by RJ Palacio; Street Child by Berlie Doherty
- Picture books – Greenling by Levi Pinfold; The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr Morris Lessmore by WE Joyce; The Wolves In The Walls by Neil Gaiman
- Poetry – The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes; The Listeners by Walter De La Mere; The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll; We Refugees by Benjamin Zephaniah
Each lesson’s PowerPoint contains vocabulary guides, questions for talk partners and solo tasks.
Also covered in this pack are:
- Rainforests
- Sia
- Songs
- Songs from musicals
- Space
- Titanic
You can also download part 1 and part 2 containing lots more planning.
Read more about Ashley Booth’s approach to teaching reading. Browse similar resources for Year 3, Year 4 and Year 6.
Ashley Booth is a Year 6 teacher and phase, maths and reading lead. He is passionate about improving reading. Visit his website.
