Literacy For Grades 5 And 6, Home School

Literacy For Grades 5 and 6

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About Our Literacy Packs

The literacy topics in the worksheets for Grades 5 and 6 offer lots of variety.

• There are lessons on history, geography and technology.
• There are also some fictional stories that encourage empathy.

There’s something that will suit every upper primary school child, and lessons are being added on a regular basis.

• The vocabulary in the reading tasks is wider
• The sentences are longer and more complex
• The writing tasks are more demanding
• A student in upper primary school can work alone more, and can answer questions more competently than in earlier years.

How To Help Your Child With Literacy Tasks

Sit next to the student for most of the lesson. Sit on the child’s left if they’re right-handed and the opposite side if left-handed. This means you can see what they’re writing. Encourage them not to give their other arm a holiday under the table. That hand is needed on the work.

1. Always give the child time to work out a new word, and
2. time to answer questions that you pose while reading or between reads.
3. It helps to take it in turns to read. Children gain confidence from this joint activity with a parent. It also helps to share the reading if the text is long.
4. As always, I recommend two readings. This could be daunting in one sitting. So read the text one day and the second reading the next day. The first reading is for decoding – that is working out the words and the relationship between the words, (who did what to whom, when and where).
5. The second reading is for comprehension and to give the student a change to get an overview of the account. With the second reading many things begin to make more sense.

Conversation with the student during the lesson helps understanding and enjoyment.

How to Help the Student with Creative Writing Tasks

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The link here is both a post and a free item with different titles. Download it and keep it in a folder to help you direct the task your child is asked to do from school. It gives you the cues and the language to use if you and your child get stuck.

Problem: Children Reject Parents Teaching Them

Instructions for the child make it easy for the parent. Just follow through. If you feel you’ve forgotten things since school, don’t worry, it’s all there for you.

If your child rejects your help the most likely reason is a lack of confidence. All kids want the high opinion of Mum and Dad and they don’t want their weaknesses exposed. Many parents of Grades 5 and 6 students say their child’s refusal to let them help is a problem.

Solution: Do It Gradually

If this is your situation, an approach is to download an item and let them work through it alone. Stay in the vicinity but appear to be otherwise occupied. It’s called hanging around. Offer to help with anything that is a bit tough.

Probably your child will choose to work alone or look up difficult words. It’s better to see them sitting close by and working on tasks than not at all.

1. Then ask how they found the material.
2. How does it compare with the literacy material at school?
3. Was it too easy or too hard?
4. At this point you can ask if you can see how they went on the written tasks.
5. If this approach works, up to this point, build positively on what they’ve done.
6. Resist too much marking. Perhaps sit with them and give positive feedback. Being positive will keep your child working willingly.
7. And moving on to another task – hopefully with closer support – is what you want. And improvement will come.
8. Some children like to jump into the task without reading the instructions. This leads to mistakes. So always ask the student/s to read the instructions aloud. Check that they know how to proceed with the task after reading what they have to do.
9. Parents and other non-teachers are capable of correcting the task when complete. The tasks usually get harder as you move along so it’s a good idea to correct each task before doing the next one.
10. You don’t have to mark every mistake. Draw your child’s attention to noticeable errors and leave the others.

In Conlusion

I hope you enjoy the material. If you are interested then your child will be interested too. Rest assured, your child will progress with regular supervised literacy lessons.

It was my intention to help parents. I wanted to help those in isolated locations or who have an unwell child. For many reasons parents want their child taught at home. Some families prefer Home Schooling. For many reasons parents want to teach their own child. These carefully graded lesson packs will help you do that.