Year 5 · Speaking & listening
Identify the specific language feature described on each card.
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Identify the specific language feature described on each card.
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Use one example in a real piece of reading, writing or discussion.
Year 5 readers discuss how figurative language and other choices can affect a reader or listener. Figurative lens uses explicit descriptions to focus each match on a particular feature. Real poetry can combine several devices in one line, so the diagnostic description matters. Recognising a metaphor or hyperbole is useful when it leads to an explanation of the image or effect created.
Read The classroom was a hive and explain the comparison without claiming the room literally became a beehive. A busy, active atmosphere is a possible effect, depending on the context. Compare it with a simile using like, then try reading a line with emphasis that makes the intended image clear. Discuss the choice instead of treating a label alone as a complete interpretation.
Read a short passage aloud after playing and try more than one performance choice. Ask a listener which words or ideas became clearer, and explain a reason for the choice. A poem can support different interpretations, so the game checks explicit features or directions rather than claiming to judge the only correct performance. No microphone recording or automated speech assessment takes place.
Spoken-language requirements are shared across Years 1–6. These tasks prepare selected skills at a level intended for Year 5. Read the official English programme of study.
It checks explicit poetic features or performance directions. It does not judge a spoken performance.
The National Curriculum groups reading and writing in Years 5 and 6. These Year 5 examples provide a practice progression within that shared programme; schools can sequence the content differently. Spoken-language requirements apply across Years 1–6.