Year 5 Students can learn to answer questions on stories, articles, poems and advertisements. Lessons cover finding stated facts, inferring feelings and predicting what happens next. Students also practise working out author’s purpose, telling fact from opinion, spotting persuasive techniques and reading tables and diagrams.

Year 5 students can prepare for either a narrative or a persuasive task. In narrative lessons they plan quickly, create believable characters, build tension and write a clear ending. In persuasive lessons they take a position, explain their reasons, use persuasive devices and answer an opposing view.

Spelling, grammar and punctuation through multiple-choice and short-answer questions. Students can practise capital letters, commas, apostrophes for contractions and possession, and speech marks. Grammar lessons cover verb tense, pronouns, prepositions, adjectives and adverbs. Students also learn to build compound and complex sentences, fix fragments, and choose the right homophone.

At UExL students can work with numbers up to the millions, then move on to fractions, decimals and percentages. They practise written and mental methods for all four operations, including remainders in word problems. Further lessons cover time, area, perimeter, units, angles, nets, maps and graphs. Students can also learn to check scales and graph keys.