Free Year 5 English Check-up

What this checks

Ten questions drawn from 21 Year 5 english topics — easy first, then medium, then two harder ones. The result shows which topics look comfortable and which may need more practice.

• • Reading information texts
• • Reading narratives and diaries
• • Putting sentences and steps in order
• • Words with the nearest meaning
• • Sound-alike and confused words
• • Spot and fix a misspelt word
• • Write tricky plurals and the right verb form
• • Use nouns, verbs and pronouns correctly
• • Punctuate and capitalise sentences correctly
• • Reading procedural texts
• • Author’s opinion and purpose
• • Reading myths, legends and stories: working out what is not said
• • Tell nouns from verbs by their job and choose the right pronoun
• • Prepositions and phrases
• • Speech, lists and letters
• • Irregular verbs: past and participle
• • Verb tenses: past, present and future
• • Persuasive and discussion texts
• • Recounts, letters and timelines
• • Cloze, matching and true-or-false questions
• • One word for a phrase, and moving phrases

10 questions from across the year's topics, from easy to harder, that change each time, so it can be taken again. This is a short, informal check to help you decide what to practise — not a formal assessment.