In Flyers Reading & Writing Part 5, your child reads a story, then completes seven sentences about it using one, two, three or four words. Every answer must come straight from the story text, so it tests close reading and the ability to locate exact words.
Your child reads a story told over a few paragraphs.
Below the story are seven unfinished sentences about what happened.
They complete each sentence with one to four words copied from the story.
The sentences follow the order of the story, so earlier answers come from earlier paragraphs.
The answer is always in the story — teach your child to find the matching sentence and copy from it, never to paraphrase in their own words.
Answers are one to four words: if your child is writing five or more, they have copied too much.
Use the order of the questions — the answer to question 3 sits after the answer to question 2 in the text, which cuts searching time.
Spelling must match the story exactly, so this is a copying exercise as much as a comprehension one.
Read stories and answer questions about them — the same close-reading muscle Part 5 marks, levelled to Flyers texts.
No — this is the part where paraphrasing costs marks. Each sentence must be completed with words lifted directly from the story, spelled as they appear there. Children who summarise in their own words often understand the story perfectly and still score poorly, so practise the copy-the-exact-words habit deliberately.
Between one and four words. The sentence to complete usually restates part of the story, and the missing piece is a short phrase from the text. If an answer is running past four words, your child has copied more than needed — teach them to trim to just the phrase that completes the sentence.
At seven questions it is the third-biggest part of the paper, and the skill it tests — scanning a text to locate exact words — is unlike the option-choosing parts around it. Children who only practise multiple-choice formats often stumble here first, so a few targeted sessions make a visible difference.
Last updated: 2026-07-02
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Last updated: 2026-07-02