Developing reading preferences in Year 5 worksheet

“Who am I as a reader?” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 5 English unit “Developing reading preferences in Year 5”, for children aged 9 to 10, and takes about 24 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Week 15 of the year, 4 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Who am I as a reader?

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 5 · English · about 24 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can tell how my reading choices and the people who make a text can change how I read it.

A Look back3 min

1.
Which walking verb means moving with slow, heavy steps?
2.
Which walking verb means moving quietly so that no one sees you?
3.
Which type of book usually has a detective who solves a crime? Circle one.
FantasyMysteryPoetry

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola thinks about what kind of reader she is. She looks at the books she keeps going back to.

Watch me

Ola keeps choosing funny comics and animal stories.

She likes to read them in bed before she sleeps.

She goes back to them because they make her laugh, so that is part of her reader identity.

Now you

1.
Zara rereads her dragon books every week, mostly on the bus. Write one thing this tells you about Zara as a reader.

C Your turn8 min

Think about the people who make a book, then sort and choose.

Open picture book showing a colorful tree and sun drawing, beside a thin book.

1.
Join each word to what it means.
authorillustratortranslatorpoet
uses rhythm and line breaks in versewrites the words of a textcarries a text into another languagedraws the pictures in a text
2.
Mia loves the bright drawings in a picture book and wants more like them. Whose name should she look for on other books? Circle one.
authorillustratoreditorreader
3.
Sort each fact into the right column.
It has short chaptersThe writer grew up by the seaIt is set on a farmThe writer had a dog as a child
About the book About the author
4.
Which one is part of your reader identity? Circle one.
the books you keep going back tothe price of a book in a shopthe number of books in a library

Say it out loud: Which job makes the words, and which job makes the pictures? How do you know?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A pencil, a closed notebook and an open book with blank pages on a desk

Priya says: “If I look up the author first, every book will feel better to read.”

1.
Why is Priya's claim not always true?

E Think deeper4 min

An open picture book on a wooden table showing a quiet hill at dusk

1.
Two readers look at the same picture book page. One knows the illustrator grew up in a city. The other does not. Explain how that knowledge might change what one reader notices, or why it might not.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Who am I as a reader? · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. Look for: trudge or trudged If they write 'walk', ask: does that word tell us the steps were slow and heavy?

2. Look for: skulk or skulked. Accept creep, sneak or prowl.

3. Mystery

B

1. Look for: Names something Zara enjoys, such as dragon stories, or where she likes to read, such as on the bus. If they only write 'the bus', ask: what does choosing the same books every week show about what Zara enjoys?

C

1. author → writes the words of a text; illustrator → draws the pictures in a text; translator → carries a text into another language; poet → uses rhythm and line breaks in verse If the poet and author are swapped, ask: who uses rhythm and line breaks, and who only chooses the words of a story?

2. illustrator If they chose author, say: the author writes the words, and the illustrator makes the drawings Mia loves.

3. About the book: It has short chapters, It is set on a farm · About the author: The writer grew up by the sea, The writer had a dog as a child

4. the books you keep going back to If they chose the price or the library size, say: your reader identity is about what you enjoy and return to, not what things cost.

D

1. Look for: Says that looking up an author does not always make a book better, for example because the words can speak for themselves or some readers prefer to read first. If they say researching always helps, ask: could a reader enjoy the book more by reading it first and looking up the author later?

E

1. Look for: Explains a possible change in what the reader notices after learning about the illustrator, or explains why the picture might still speak for itself.

Words to use

Say“What do you like to read, and why do you keep going back to it?”

Instead of“Read this to me and tell me what the answer is.”

After the sheet

Ask your child to name three books, poems or comics they chose this month and where they read each one. Talk about what the three have in common.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

3 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Characters Who Inspire(with a plan)
Becoming a Book Recommender(with a plan)
Poems that do not rhyme(with a plan)

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