Year 5 · usually aged 10 to 11
Year 5 maths and English
51 maths and English lessons for Year 5, mapped to the Victorian Curriculum 2.0. Your child starts where they are, follows a short daily plan, and you see how they're going.
The lessons
Every Year 5 lesson in Study Compass.
Maths
Number and algebra (12)
- Thousandths
- Factors and multiples
- Comparing fractions
- Percentages
- Add and subtract fractions
- Multiplying big numbers
- Division and what to do with the remainder
- Is it reasonable?
- Budgets and best buys
- Flowcharts
- Fact families for multiplication and division
- Finding unknowns in multiplication and division
Measurement (4)
- Choosing exact units
- Perimeter and area of shapes
- 24-hour time
- Measuring angles
Space (3)
- Nets
- Coordinates
- Slides, flips and turns
Statistics (3)
- Collecting data
- Line graphs
- Planning an investigation
Probability (2)
- Listing outcomes
- Chance experiments
English
Reading (10)
- Text structure
- Persuasion and audience
- Summarising
- Clues across a text
- Who tells the story?
- Imagery and metaphor
- Films and picture books
- Time and place in texts
- Talking about books
- Reading harder texts
Writing (4)
- Narrative with depth
- Persuasive writing that sounds reasonable
- Editing against a checklist
- Speaking and handwriting (at home)
Grammar and punctuation (10)
- Complex sentences
- Noun groups
- Sentence openers
- Commas and apostrophes
- Precise words
- Reasonable opinions
- Who you're talking to
- Verb groups and tense
- Pronouns that point back
- Adverbs and adverbials
Spelling (3)
- Letters with two sounds
- Word parts
- Tricky plurals
Each lesson has a short explainer read aloud, a quiz and five levels of practice. Outside Victoria, a few lessons sit in a different year so the plan matches what your school teaches.
NAPLAN
Year 5 NAPLAN, at a glance.
NAPLAN is in March, about six weeks into Year 5, so it mostly checks Year 4 learning. The online tests adapt: harder questions appear as a child gets earlier ones right.
| Test | Time | How |
|---|---|---|
| Writing | 42 min | Online, typed |
| Reading | 50 min | Online |
| Conventions of language | 45 min | Online: spelling, grammar, punctuation |
| Numeracy | 50 min | Online, no calculator |
NAPLAN-style practice tests for Year 5 · Try 10 free questions · NAPLAN explained
Practice scores, not official NAPLAN results. Study Compass isn't affiliated with or endorsed by ACARA.