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What are the exams my child will sit for Literacy?

Reading Paper – 1 hour Grammar Paper 45 mins + spelling test Writing (internal)

THANK YOU!

How can I help my child prepare for the READING paper?

Read with your child(ren) and ask questions to develop and strengthen their understanding.

SELECT SYNONYM/ ANTONYM WHY? HOW? FIND

NATIONAL VOCABULARY

It’s easier to spot and find than explain, so we need to develop this skill. 95% of students nationally got these two questions correct. Only 65% of students in the nation could answer this one. They struggled with explaining.

What impression…what do you think. 2 marks and 2 words…explain each word. Use synonyms – word association game.

What else?

• Read aloud with your child – choral
• r echo
• Homework completion
• VIPERS
• Reading scheme
• Travel time
• Author’s Journals
• Vocabulary Ninja WoD – L’Hebdo &

Twitter

What else?

Take books out of the library together/ read the newspaper together

• Discuss how the writer

has created a certain view or feeling to what they have created

• Are parents and siblings reading?
• Is reading seen as a non-negotiable

in the home? Read at length – see sample papers

KS2 READING SATS PAPER : WORD COUNT OVER TIME

Year Text 1 Text 2 Text 3 Total Pass Mark /50 2017

Gaby to the Rescue 602 Swimming the Channel 70 Encounter with the Sea 626 1937 26

2018

Giant Panda 560 Grannie – poem 214 Albion’s Dream 714 1488 28

2019

The Park 633 Bees 632 Music Box 903 2168 28 As this word count analysis shows, the 2019 test comprised of the most words ever presented in a KS2 reading test paper so to prepare we need to consider reading at length more frequently…

How can I help my child prepare for the GPS paper?

Do NOT repeat what is said. USE the word you’re given.

Underline only what you are asked for. Tick the number you’re asked for.

Useful sites for grammar

The school website and Facebook feed has lots of grammar guides and links to sites: https://www.grammaraquarium.co.uk/ BBC supermovers – fun songs to help remember key vocabulary Punctuation booklets The punctuation show :

WWW.SPAG.COM

• Work through a few questions with your child
• Make it a competition – parents could write their answers
• ut on paper
• Use Bitesize or Google to help work out the answer (and

then a few days later, test that they have remembered what you looked at together)

• Grammar Police
• Can they proof

read for you?

SPELLINGS

“I’M AWFUL AT SPELLING…”

• Test your children on their weekly spellings – practise

regularly!

• Websites : how to spell / spellzone /spelling frame
• Spelling fun – get creative
• Have the Curriculum spellings stuck to the fridge
• Ask your children to explain what spelling patterns/

rules they have learnt in class

• Turn predictive text off

SPELLINGS

• Teacher assessed
• VERY strict guidelines
• Moderated ( our sample work can be seen)
• Only INDEPENDENT work is considered.
• TAF and government guidelines
• Biggest hurdle facing students – fitting it

all in!

• Handwriting

Writing

KS1 EXS

• Segment spoken words into phonemes and represent

these by graphemes, spelling many of these words correctly and making phonically-plausible attempts at

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• Spell many common exception words*
• Form capital letters and digits of the correct size,
• rientation and relationship to one another and to

lower-case letters

• Use spacing between words that reflects the size of

the letters.

KS2 EXS

• use verb tenses consistently and correctly throughout

their writing

• use the range of punctuation taught at key stage 2 mostly

correctly^ (e.g. inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech)

• spell correctly most words from the year 5 / year 6

spelling list,* and use a dictionary to check the spelling of uncommon or more ambitious vocabulary

• maintain legibility in joined handwriting when writing at

speed

Joined handwriting also improves spelling and grammar.

INTERVENTION & QL ANALYSIS