This homework pack contains seven weeks of Literacy and Numeracy tasks designed for Primary 5 students during Nov & Dec. It is suitable for parents, teachers, and tutors to purchase, with explanations and answers provided.

What’s included?

Comprehensions

• The Olympic Games of Ancient Greece (Informational Text)
• Devastating Fire that Engulfs Primark Fire (Newspaper Report)
• Extract from the book The Land of Roar by Jenny McLachlan (Fictional Narrative)
• The Role of Herbivores (Informational Text)
• Fires of Summer (Rhyming Poem)
• The Treasure hunt Adventure (Playscript)
• How to Make a Christmas Snow Globe (Instructional Writing)

40 pages in total (not including answers)

Format: pdf

Please note: upon completing your purchase, the resources will be dispatched to you via email. Please promptly download and store each item, as there is a single download attempt allowed per resource to prevent email sharing. Alternatively, access your purchased resources through your account. Be sure to check your junk/spam folder for the email containing instructions on setting up a password to create your account.

Numeracy

• Compare and arrange 4-digit numbers in ascending and descending order.
• Round whole numbers up to 9999 to the nearest thousand.
• Select the appropriate operations to solve two-step word problems involving addition and subtraction within 1000.
• Recognise and Use Multiples (Warm-Up Task)
• Recognise and Use Multiples
• Recognise and Use Factors
• Use written multiplication methods to multiply a 2-digit number by 2, 3, 4 and 5
• Use a written method to perform division calc. by 2, 3, 4, and 5 with numbers up to 99.
• Multiply any whole number by 10, answers up to 9999 (How to Poster)
• Multiply any whole number by 10, answers up to 9999
• Use two-step function machines to strengthen quick recall of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts.
• Calculate the perimeter of simple shapes by counting each 1 cm along the outer edge of the shape
• Calculate the perimeter of simple shapes by adding together the lengths of all the sides
• Calculate start, finish, and durations to 1-minute intervals
• Determine whether a 2D shape is regular or irregular

Literacy

• Understand and know the difference between a homophone and a homograph
• Understand and know the difference between a homophone and a homograph
• Infer the meanings of unknown words from the context
• Infer the meanings of unknown words from context (more challenging)
• Identify and use adverbs of manner to describe how actions are performed
• Understand and use commas to clarify sentence structure and separate different parts of a sentence effectively.
• Spot the Spelling Mistake (Spellings from Term 1)

Format: pdf

Please note: upon completing your purchase, the resources will be dispatched to you via email. Please promptly download and store each item, as there is a single download attempt allowed per resource to prevent email sharing. Alternatively, access your purchased resources through your account. Be sure to check your junk/spam folder for the email containing instructions on setting up a password to create your account.