This Year 5 reading collection contains 11 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:
- Antarctic explorers – Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill
- Beetles – Beetle Boy by MG Leonard; Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles
- Brazil – Journey To The River Sea by Eva Ibbotson; Trains To Brazil by The Guillemots
- Children’s classics – Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne; The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien; The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling; The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame; The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett; The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Each lesson’s PowerPoint contains vocabulary guides, questions for talk partners and solo tasks.
Also covered in this pack are:
- Changing materials
- Peter Pan
- Christmas
- Circuses
- Disney songs
- Energy/forces
You can also download part 2 and part 3 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.
