1. English Reading, Writing, Grammar, Punctuation and Grammar
SATs 2017
English Reading, Writing, Grammar, Punctuation and Grammar

2. English 2017-18 Reading Grammar Spelling Writing English Overview
1 hour
Reading Comprehension Examination
45 minutes
Grammar, Punctuation and Vocabulary Examination
15 minutes
20 Spellings taken from the Y5/6 Curriculum
A portfolio of pupil’s writing across a range of writing purposes.
See your child’s planner for their self-reflection sheet to use when checking their writing across all subjects
Externally marked
External Moderator looks at a sample of pupils’ work to agree our judgments.

4. Reading – the types of questions that will be in the test:
Type of question
Marks available in the paper
Give / explain the meaning of words in context
5-10
Retrieve and record information / identify key details from fiction and non-fiction
8-25
Summarise main ideas from more than one paragraph
1-6
Make inferences from the text / explain and justify inferences with evidence from the text
Predict what might happen from details stated and implied
0-3
Identify / explain how information / content is related
Identify / explain how meaning is enhanced through words and phrases
Make comparisons within the text

5. put on a waterproof suit
Focus of question: retrieval of detail
In the paper, up to 25 marks will be available on questions testing this skill
1. What did Lucy have to do before the boat left the dock? Circle your choice.
sit down
put on a waterproof suit
take a photograph
look out for whales

6. Focus of question: Inference
Make inferences from the text / explain and justify inferences with evidence from the text
In the paper, up to 25 marks will be available on questions testing this skill
Q32. Toward the end of the trip, Lucy admits that she has a mixture of feelings about her experience. Explain her different feelings.
Mark Scheme: Award 3 marks for developed answers
Lucy felt like a stranger on the whales’ property, but was still anxious to see them. As she approached land she was pleased she didn’t know all the whales’ secrets.

7. Focus of question: identification of structure.
2. Lucy’s account of whale watching is made of five main events. Number each stage of the trip to show the order in which they happen. The first one has been done for you.
goes back to the dock
sees one whale swimming
sets off on the journey
sees several whales leaping
prepares for the journey 5 3 2 4 1

8. In preparation for the Reading test
In English lessons, we are using half-termly Reading tests that match the demands of the SATs papers
Past SATs papers will be used in the build up to the tests to monitor pupils’ performance
Mock SATs examinations will be used for pupils to experience and feel more comfortable in an examination situation - results of which will be reported to parents

9. What can you do at home to prepare for the Reading Test?
Encourage your son/daughter to:
Practise their reading every day. How much can they read and understand in 15 minutes?
Read a passage aloud. Question your son/daughter about what he / she has read:
Why did the character ….? How was the character feeling when ……… happened?
Why did the author use the word / phrase …….? etc.
Learn to work out new vocabulary from the context, looking at the stem of a word and making connections and look up new words that they meet in the dictionary
Make predictions on what may happen next:
Why does the last paragraph suggest might happen next? Why do think that?
Make comparisons within an extract: How has the character’s mood changed from the beginning?

10. Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation
(In school we call this SPaG- Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar)
English grammar, punctuation and spelling
Paper 1 comprises of 40 to 50 short-answer questions covering grammar, punctuation and vocabulary, taking 45 minutes
Paper 2 is a spelling test with 20 questions, taking approximately 15 minutes

11. English staff are using www. spag
English staff are using to test pupils’ understanding to inform teaching.

12. Examples:
1) Circle all the adverbs in the sentence below.
Open the drawers carefully and quietly when using the filing cabinet.
2) Add a suffix to this word to make an adjective.
dread ______________

13. 3) Underline the subordinate clause in each sentence below
3) Underline the subordinate clause in each sentence below. One has been done for you.
Although his Mum thought they were very smart, Peter disliked his new trousers. Before he could go swimming, Ali packed his towel.

14. 4) Complete the sentence below with a contraction that makes sense.
If you give me the recipe____________ buy the ingredients on the way home.

16. The Spelling Test Transporting Station Boiled Stapled Future Enough
Feature
Mattered
Produces
Disruptive
Shipped
Strength
Umbrellas
Released
Variety
Chief
Familiar
Physically
Substantial
Surprised
20 words are read out three times for pupils to write down.
e.g.
Number 1, The word is transporting
The ship was transporting the cargo to its destination.
The word is transporting

17. Spelling in school
Spelling errors are identified in pupils’ extended writing as a individual focus for the pupil to correct and practise.
Regular spelling tests are being carried out (not just in English lessons), so pupils are expected to take words home to practise in advance of being tested.
Following its success in previous years, Spelling Club will run at lunchtimes for pupils identified as needing further support or boost in learning spellings.
Spelling Bee Competition – a fun, competitive strategy to learning spellings together and then competing is to be introduced in January.
Spelling Booklets with word lists are handed out each term with the weekly spelling lists that pupils are to revise.

18. Helping with Spelling
Making spelling practice into a game is much more effective than learning lists.
Speed Spell involves picking a word a pupil has difficulty with and writing it out as many times as possible, correctly, within a minute.
High Frequency Words or tricky words need to be learned, practising writing them in sentences
they’re said because should
Words within words
DICTIONARY– How many new words can I make-time it!
Spelling patterns / rhyming words can also be useful.
Phonics Most important, break a word down into syllables.

19. Key Messages
Listen to your child read – do they understand what they are reading and the new words that they encounter?
How much can you child read in 5 minutes?
Support your child by finding out the Grammar questions that they are unsure of together
Help your child with their spellings by testing them – even if it is just the spelling rule (e.g. words ending in –ious)
Encourage your child to proofread their writing to check for careless errors
Use the suggested revision guide to look through together