Writing Practice for Grade 5–6

About these lessons

Upper primary writers already tell stories; now they learn to control them. The grade 5 lessons tidy up the past simple, because and so, and commas in lists, then add adverbs of manner and prepositions of place so that a reader can see exactly where and how things happened.

In grade 6 the focus moves to longer, smoother sentences. Pupils join two short sentences into one compound sentence and use who, which and that to add detail about a person or a thing without starting a new sentence. It is the grammar that makes writing sound grown-up without making it harder to read.

Each lesson is a short scene — a lost dog, a science fair, a storm on the way home — told in five steps that end with a sentence or two in the learner’s own words. Signed-in learners see which lessons they have finished and earn XP for each one they complete.

What you practise

• W5 · A1+because / so · past simple · commas in lists
• W6 · A2Adverbs · prepositions · compound sentences
• W7 · A2Joining sentences with who / which / that

Lessons include “A Football Match”, “The Birthday Party”, “My Trip” and 82 more.