Year 6 Parents’ SATS Evening Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar & Writing

Aims Understand new age-related expectations for Year 6 Spelling Punctuation and grammar Gain experience of assessment materials/processes for end of Year 6 Look at possibilities for home support

Assessment at the end of Year 6. Teacher Assessment Teachers collaboratively assess children’s work according to KS2 Interim Assessment Framework. Test SPaG Paper 1: Short Answer Questions (50 marks) SPaG Paper 2: Spelling Task (20 marks)

Punctuation and Grammar Punctuation and grammar is taught discretely throughout the school. Children participate in SPaG sessions to learn/practise new concepts. These are then applied in their wider writing. Punctuation and Grammar are assessed through: Teacher assessment of writing throughout Year 6 SPaG Paper 2: Short Answer Questions Give out Appendix 2: Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation Will look at SPaG test sample in next section.

Punctuation and Grammar Punctuation and grammar is taught discretely throughout the school. Children participate in SPaG sessions to learn/practise new concepts. These are then applied in their wider writing. Punctuation and Grammar are assessed through: Teacher assessment of writing throughout Year 6 SPaG Paper 1: Short Answer Questions Give out Appendix 2: Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation Will look at SPaG test sample in next section.

SPaG Paper 1: Short Answer Questions Punctuation and grammar assessed through short answer questions. No extended writing needed. Multiple-choice answers For some questions, you do not need to do any writing. Read the instructions carefully so that you know how to answer each question. Short answers Some questions are followed by a line or a box. This shows that you need to write a word, a few words or a sentence. Give out SPaG Paper 1: Short Answer Questions.

Spelling Spelling is taught discretely throughout the school. Children participate in spelling sessions to learn/practise new spellings. These are then applied in their wider writing. Spelling is assessed through: Teacher assessment of writing throughout Year 6 SPaG Paper 2: Spelling Give out Appendix 1: Spelling Will look at spelling test sample in next section.

Spelling Spelling is taught discretely throughout the school. Children participate in spelling sessions to learn/practise new spellings. These are then applied in their wider writing. Spelling is assessed through: Teacher assessment of writing throughout Year 6 SPaG Paper 2: Spelling Give out Appendix 1: Spelling Will look at spelling test sample in next section.

SPaG Paper 2: Spelling Task Punctuation and grammar assessed through 20 sentences with missing words. No extended writing needed. Children hear sentences read by teacher multiple times with word clearly emphasised. Give out SPaG Paper 2: Spelling Task.

Writing Teacher Assessment Statutory interim frameworks support teachers in making an assessment judgement for each pupil at the end of key stage 2 in 2017 only. A variety of pieces of work are studied to ensure quality of work is consistent. Give out KS2 Interim Framework.

Possibilities for home support. Spelling Continue to emphasise to pupils the relationships between sounds and letters, even when the relationships are unusual. Practise adding prefixes and suffixes to root words to change meaning. Many of the words in the list provided can be used for practice in adding suffixes. Focus on spelling in homework tasks. Punctuation and grammar Review week’s learning using CGP Books. Practise concepts using website list. Ask children to explain why their writing in homework is successful. Model exemplary grammar in everyday life.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy2.htm http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/spelling_grammar/ http://www.spellingcity.com/ http://www.educationquizzes.com/ks2/english/ http://www.swaffield.wandsworth.sch.uk/beta-site/?page_id=7214 Website List Useful websites which may help review learning. If any of the terms used by children, in the CGP books or on websites are unclear, then please use us as a frame of reference. Come and see us.

“Grammar to a writer is to a mountaineer a good pair of hiking boots or, more precisely, to a deep-sea diver an oxygen tank.” - A.A.Patawaran

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