In Year 5 children learn to:

• identify the audience for, and purpose of, the writing;
• select the appropriate form and uses other similar writing as models for their own;
• proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors;
• ensure the consistent and correct use of tense throughout a piece of writing;
• use further organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader (eg headings, bullet points, underlining);
• describes settings, characters and atmosphere;
• convert nouns or adjectives into verbs using suffixes (eg -ate; -ise; -ify);
• indicate degrees of possibility using adverbs (eg perhaps, surely) or modal verbs (eg might, should, will, must);
• use devices to build cohesion within a paragraph (eg then, after that, this, firstly);
• use commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity.