Free Year 5 English Worksheets for Teachers

Year 5 reading comprehension on The Mystery of the Attic Map: word meanings, inference about Arthur, a one-sentence summary and a prediction.

Year 5 inference worksheet on a Blackwood Manor extract: retrieval, reading between the lines and prediction. Ten questions with a full answer key.

Year 5 non-fiction summarising worksheet on the deep sea. Pupils build a mind map from four paragraphs, then write a three-sentence summary.

Emperor penguin retrieval quiz for Year 5: 11 questions on subheadings, a fact file and a caption, plus a true or false table. Answers included.

Year 5 Venn diagram worksheet comparing traditional and modern heroes. Pupils sort nine statements, from magic swords to mobile phones. Answers included.

Year 5 poetry worksheet on simile, metaphor and personification. Four-box organisers with definitions, examples and non-examples. Answers included.

Year 5 persuasive writing worksheet: plan a theme park pitch, edit a paragraph for agreement and tense, then draft a formal introduction.

Six-panel suspense story storyboard for Year 5. Pupils plan a setting, a source of tension and an ending, with a caption for each scene.

Year 5 cohesion worksheet using Point, Evidence, Explain, Link. A model paragraph, a guided bedtime task and an independent book or film task.

Year 5 narrative writing worksheet set in a forgotten greenhouse. Plan, use a 12-word vocabulary bank, then write a scene with atmosphere and dialogue.

Year 5 persuasive letter worksheet: sentence frames and a letter skeleton asking the Headteacher for a wildlife garden. Model answers included.

Six-page Year 5 précis homework: the Great Fire of London, a 15-word pyramids challenge and Tutankhamun's tomb. Full answer key included.

Mixed Year 5 spelling practice: silent letters, homophones, dis-, mis-, -ation and -ible, and dictionary order by the third and fourth letter.

Year 5 ie and ei spelling anagrams: ten scrambled words with clues, three challenge sentences and a mystery exception word. Answers included.

Year 5 homophone match-up: practice and practise, licence and license, stationary and stationery, principal and principle. Answers included.

Year 5 silent letters word search: find ten words including knight, psalm and thistle across and down a grid. Answer key with grid positions.

Year 5 and 6 statutory spellings: Look, Cover, Write, Check for 12 words, joined handwriting practice and gap-fill sentences with answers.

Year 5 -able or -ible crossword with seven clues, from adorable to incredible. Each clue gives the ending and letter count. Answers included.

Year 5 grammar practice on parenthesis, modal verbs and relative clauses. Pupils punctuate, rewrite with modals and complete relative clauses.

Year 5 relative clauses worksheet with ten sentence frames, from choosing a pronoun to omitting it. Example answers included.

Year 5 parenthesis worksheet: spot, add and write brackets, dashes and commas in 11 questions, ending with the golden rule. Answer key included.

Year 5 modal verbs cloze set on a spooky castle trip. Pupils fill 12 gaps from a word bank with three distractors. Answers included.

Year 5 grammar and punctuation test: 30 questions on modals, relative clauses, parenthesis, commas and verb prefixes. Answer key included.

Year 5 commas starter: sentence pairs like the Grandpa example show how one comma changes meaning. Six questions with answers.