Experienced KS1 and KS2 teacher currently teaching in Year Six. Specialist Leader for Mathematics across three Local Authorities.
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Experienced KS1 and KS2 teacher currently teaching in Year Six. Specialist Leader for Mathematics across three Local Authorities.
All resources have been tried and tested. I'm open to suggestions and requests and aim to help anyone who requires it.
Please leave feedback and rate my resources.
This resource is intended to be used to help teach the skills of the KS2 National Curriculum for Reading, by domain. Domains 2b and 2d are weighted more in these comprehensions to match the weighting of the end of KS2 Reading Comprehension assessment.
Included:
• SATs style comprehension questions for every chapter of the novel.
• A teaching PowerPoint with an introduction to the author, their other works and copies of the questions.
This resource works best if the chapter is read, talked about and discussed in one day, then comprehension questions are given the day after.
This resource has been used with both Year Five and Year Six classes to great effect and has boosted their reading skills and their comprehension scores.
Please let me know if you found this resource useful. It should save you hours and hours of time.
Please leave feedback.
These are excel spreadsheets Gap Analysis documents for the May 2016 Year Six SATs Papers for GPS (including spelling).
The sheet totals up the scores automatically and each child’s final score changes colour to reflect their ability.
If their total score for a subject goes green, it means they would have passed the 2016 SATs with that score. If it goes Orange, it means they are within touching distance. If it goes Green with a yellow font, it means that child would have achieved a ‘More Able’ score for that tested subject.
I have also included a digital document, linking to a freely available copy of each test, mark scheme and instructions. Additionally, I have included the conversion tables from RAW Score to Scaled Score.
All a teacher has to do is enter their children’s names and enter the 0’s, 1’s, 2’s or 3’s for each question, which also change colour too for a visual reference. I recommend that a teacher should enter ‘N’ if a child did not attempt that question. This gives an idea of who is not even attempting certain questions, not just whether they got the question wrong.
The sheets are set up for 30 pupils but more can be added/deleted and instructions are on the first page/sheet. Some cells are locked/protected in this document but the parts that you need to insert yourself are editable. This is so that the formulas/algorithms do not break and render the spreadsheet’s functionalities as broken.
I take requests for Gap Analysis Grids. Please leave feedback if you like this resource as I am planning to produce more for each SATs paper going forward, as well as CGP Practice Papers.
Please remember to rate this resource as I made this to save teachers time. Thank-you.
A challenge based worksheet aimed at securing a child’s knowledge of Time Adverbials. Activities include using given time adverbials in sentences, varying the position of the adverbials (to help meet the goals of the KS2 Interim Assessment Framework 2016/2017/2018), using time adverbials within a paragraph and using time adverbials in a set of instructions.
This resource is intended to be used to help teach the skills of the KS2 National Curriculum for Reading, by domain. Domains 2b and 2d are weighted more in these comprehensions to match the weighting of the end of KS2 Reading Comprehension assessment.
Included:
• SATs style comprehension questions for the prologue/preface and the twenty-seven chapters of the novel.
• A teaching PowerPoint with an introduction to the author, their other works and copies of the questions.
This resource works best if the chapter is read, talked about and discussed in one day, then comprehension questions are given the day after.
This resource has been used with both Year Five and Year Six classes to great effect and has boosted their reading skills and their comprehension scores.
Please let me know if you found this resource useful. It should save you hours and hours of time.
A page of blank cards that can be cut out, laminated and written on with whiteboard marker. Coloured green to match VCOP colouring for conjunctions.
I use these as visual prompts on all my working walls.
Designed for children in Year Six to assess the contents of their own independent writing with ticks or dates.
Handy for allowing children to recognise their own areas for development.
A four-way differentiated activity sheet/ worksheet to develop an understanding of conjunctions and adverbs.
Challenge 1 - improve sentences by adding in coordinating conjunctions.
Challenge 2 - improve sentences by adding in subordinating conjunctions.
Challenge 3 - improve sentences by adding adverbial sentence openers.
Mastery Challenge - Vary the position of subordinating conjunctions and adverbs within sentences.
A complete bundle of Gap Analysis Grids (Reading, GPS, Spelling, Arithmetic and Reasoning) for the 2016 KS1 SATs assessments. I have also included links to the papers, the mark schemes and the conversion grids within each spreadsheet.
These are excel spreadsheets Gap Analysis documents for the 2016 Year Two SATs Papers for Reading.
The sheet totals up the scores automatically and each child’s final score changes colour to reflect their ability.
If their total score for a subject goes green, it means they would have passed the 2016 SATs with that score. If it goes Green with a yellow font, it means that child would have achieved a ‘More Able’ score for that tested subject.
I have also included an instructions and document page, linking to a freely available copy of each test, mark scheme and instructions. Additionally, I have included a link to the conversion tables from RAW Score to Scaled Score.
All a teacher has to do is enter their children’s names and enter the 0’s, 1’s, 2’s or 3’s for each question, which also change colour too for a visual reference. I recommend that a teacher should enter ‘N’ if a child did not attempt that question. This gives an idea of who is not even attempting certain questions, not just whether they got the question wrong.
The sheets are set up for 32 pupils but more can be added/deleted and instructions are on the first page/sheet. Some cells are locked/protected in this document but the parts that you need to insert yourself are editable. This is so that the formulas/algorithms do not break and render the spreadsheet’s functionalities as broken.
I take requests for Gap Analysis Grids. Please leave feedback if you like this resource as I am planning to produce more for each SATs paper going forward, as well as CGP Practice Papers.
Please remember to rate this resource as I made this to save teachers time. Thank-you.
Complete suite of Gap Analysis grids for the 2016 & 2017 KS1 SATs. Reading, Maths and GPS papers for each year plus links to the matching assessments.
Please read each resources page for a more detailed breakdown of the contents.
A very simple to use tracking grid that can be passed up with cohorts. All a teacher/LSA needs to do is put in the short date of when a child moved on to the next level/box.
Features approximate tracking of:
Target Tracker Band
Read, Write, Inc group
Old curriculum book bands
Can track as many or as few children as desired
A perfect way to inject a bit of life into a creative writing planning session!
This resource includes two high quality examples of a ‘Speech’ story opening, an ‘Action’ story opening and a ‘Description’ story opening that are intended to be printed double-sided and laminated.
The language and punctuation used will reinforce strong writing in Year Five and Six.
Possible activities -
- Discuss which of the three opening types each card belongs to.
- Put them face down on a table and flip them over to quickly analyse the opening type.
- Improve the card. Suggest improvement or redraft sections to be more exciting or descriptive.
Twenty-five wordsearches covering every spelling pattern found in the National Curriculum for Years 2-6.
Ideal as homework, morning tasks, afternoon tasks, interventions or as golden time.
A fun way for Year 5 & 6 children to revise and learn the National Curriculum spellings.
All spellings have been taken directly from the National Curriculum spelling appendix.
Can be used for homework, morning/afternoon tasks, golden time etc.
A fun way to learn the Year 2 spellings. Each wordsearch focuses on a different phoneme/spelling pattern:
-Long (o) as –old, -ost and -oll
-ss words
-Long (i) as –ild and -ind
-ll words
-wa and squa
-ck words
-war and wor
-ff and zz words
-all
-ch words
-short (u) as o 1
-sh words
-short (u) as o 2
-th words
A fun way for Year 3 & 4 children to revise and learn the National Curriculum spellings.
All spellings have been taken directly from the National Curriculum spelling appendix.
Three famous poems and reading comprehension questions to go with them. Questions include question types found in the 2016 and 2017 SATs papers or in End of Year assessments.
Poem 1 - You are old, Father William - Lewis Carroll
Poem 2 - Sick - Shel Silverstein
Poem 3 - Mary’s Lamb - Sarah Josepha Hale
I have used these as whole class exercises and for specific groups in guided reading to great effect.
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These are excel spreadsheets Gap Analysis documents for the May 2018 Year Six SATs Papers for GPS (including spelling).
The sheet totals up the scores automatically and each child’s final score changes colour to reflect their ability.
If their total score for a subject goes green, it means they would have passed the 2018 SATs with that score. If it goes Purple with a White font, it means that child would have achieved a ‘More Able’ score for that tested subject.
I have also included an instructions and document page, linking to a freely available copy of each test, mark scheme and instructions. Additionally, I have included a link to the conversion tables from RAW Score to Scaled Score.
All a teacher has to do is enter their children’s names and enter the 0’s, 1’s, 2’s or 3’s for each question, which also change colour too for a visual reference. I recommend that a teacher should enter ‘N’ if a child did not attempt that question. This gives an idea of who is not even attempting certain questions, not just whether they got the question wrong.
The sheets are set up for 30 or 90 pupils but more can be added/deleted and instructions are on the first page/sheet. Some cells are locked/protected in this document but the parts that you need to insert yourself are editable, including adding and removing rows. This is so that the formulas/algorithms do not break and render the spreadsheet’s functionalities as broken. This password will not be given out, but I am more than happy to make adaptations or changes for you, provided you show proof of purchase. All of my contact details are in the resource.
I take requests for Gap Analysis Grids. Please leave feedback if you like this resource as I am planning to produce more for each SATs paper going forward, as well as CGP Practice Papers.
Please remember to rate this resource as I made this to save teachers time. Thank-you.