6 free writing resources for Year 5, organised by topic with answer sheets, study guides and topic tests.
Good writing is planned writing. Every prompt here includes a short planning section, then a writing task with success criteria that match what teachers look for in narrative, persuasive and informative texts.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
Students learn how a procedure tells the reader how to do or make something. They read a model procedure for growing a bean plant and find…
Students learn how dialogue brings a story to life. They read a short model scene and notice how each new speaker starts a new line, how…
Students learn three building blocks of an information report using facts about octopuses. They tell facts from opinions, sort facts under…
Clear explanations, examples and tips.
Teaches Year 5 students the four parts of a narrative (orientation, complication, series of events, resolution) and the show-don't-tell…
Prompts with planning space and success criteria.
A mystery prompt: a handwritten note falls out of a library book, and it is addressed to you. Students plan a story with rising tension…
Students research and write a structured information report about a native New Zealand animal, with a classification statement, paragraphs…
Writing prompts include a model opening and clear success criteria rather than a single 'correct' answer, so parents and teachers can give useful feedback.
Yes. All passages are written by Success Tutoring and checked for age-appropriate vocabulary and sentence length.
