Year 5 Reading Journey

20 passages to explore. Complete each with 80% or higher to unlock the next.

Year 5 passages challenge students with evaluation tasks, deeper inference, and comparison across texts. Students learn to identify persuasive techniques and evaluate reliability.

Parts of speech available at this level:
Common Noun Proper Noun Verb Adjective Pronoun Adverb Preposition Conjunction Interjection
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The Reading Lab is included with the Advanced and Premium plans. Try the free Year 1 sample first if you like.
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The Solar-Powered Classroom

Fiction Easy Literal
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Finn and the Flying Fox Colony

Fiction Easy Predicting
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How Coral Reefs Are Built

Non-fiction Easy Retelling
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The Inventor from Coober Pedy

Fiction Medium Connections
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Water Use in the Murray-Darling Basin

Non-fiction Medium Literal
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The Boundary Rider's Daughter

Fiction Medium Predicting
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Microplastics in Australian Oceans

Non-fiction Hard Literal
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The Firefighters of Black Saturday

Non-fiction Hard Retelling
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Voices of the Dreaming

Fiction Hard Connections
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The Debate That Changed Our Town

Fiction Expert Predicting
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The Return of the Murray Cod

Non-fiction Expert Connections
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The Time Capsule Beneath the Oval

Fiction Expert Predicting
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How Vaccines Work

Non-fiction Expert Literal
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The Tank That Listened to Rain

Fiction Expert Predicting
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Two Names on the Summit

Non-fiction Expert Retelling
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The Screen Time Debate

Non-fiction Expert Connections
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The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

Fiction Expert Predicting
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The Race for Clean Power

Non-fiction Expert Connections
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The Mystery of the Marvellous Maths Tutor

Fiction Expert Predicting
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Working at the Bottom of the World CAPSTONE

Non-fiction Expert Literal
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