Leap into Year 5 English and Reading - Summer Workbook to Bridge Year 4 and Year 5: 1000 Reading, Writing and Grammar Activities for Ages 8-9 to Prevent the Summer Slide (Leap into Next Year Series) by Leap Into Education

Is your child ready for the big step up to Year 5? Year 5 is the most demanding year yet for English — reading grows more complex, writing more sophisticated, and grammar and spelling lay the groundwork for the Year 6 SATs and 11+ entrance exams. Over the long summer holiday, children can lose weeks of hard-won reading and writing skills. This workbook bridges that gap, so your child walks into Year 5 confident, capable, and ready to fly. What's inside: Reading comprehension — challenging fiction, non-fiction and poetry with inference, retrieval and summarising questions Grammar and punctuation — modal verbs, relative clauses, parenthesis with brackets, dashes and commas Spelling — the Year 5 and 6 statutory word list, prefixes, suffixes and tricky homophones Writing — structuring longer pieces, linking paragraphs and writing for different audiences Vocabulary — synonyms, antonyms, word roots and using a thesaurus with confidence Read more