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I am currently a year 5/6 teacher in Devon so I create a great many resources throughout the year - particularly when it comes to that dreaded SAT time of year. Hope you will find many helpful resources here to save you time during the hectic 2 term year that is Year 6!

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I am currently a year 5/6 teacher in Devon so I create a great many resources throughout the year - particularly when it comes to that dreaded SAT time of year. Hope you will find many helpful resources here to save you time during the hectic 2 term year that is Year 6!
Year 5/6 Four Operations Workout - Fluency and Application - Differentiated
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Year 5/6 Four Operations Workout - Fluency and Application - Differentiated

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Worksheet that gives students a full 4 operations workout, combining fluency and application in solving word problems. Resource includes 3 differentiated worksheets to cater for low ability year 5 through to high ability year 6 (one, two and three star sheets). Problems include: addition/subtraction multiplication/division long multiplication/long division/short division times table practise one, two and multi-step problems/operations Good for SAT revision, general workout after a holiday, holding task, extension to any work being conducted within additive or multiplicative reasoning. Answer sheets included for ease of marking.
Year 5/6 Inference Exercise and 3 Mark Question Workout.
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Year 5/6 Inference Exercise and 3 Mark Question Workout.

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Four short passages where children must use inference with regards to the text in order to answer 3 mark questions. This is good practice for providing evidence from the text itself and explaining reasoning. These exercises can be carried out in a whole class guided reading environment, small groups or individually. Might be a good idea to one text as a class and discuss how to answer the questions. Give another as a paired exercise and the final two as individual work. A teacher notes/answers sheet is provided as a separate file for ease of marking.
Year 5/6 Autumn Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation Quiz Worksheet - GPS SPAG
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Year 5/6 Autumn Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation Quiz Worksheet - GPS SPAG

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Twenty spellings (asked in a similar way to the usual GPS paper). Sheet for chn to fill in the blanks as you read out the required word to complete the sentence. Second attachment is based on grammar and punctuation. Questions included are based on: a and an adjectives formal language active and passive voice semicolons main and subordinate clauses conjunctions relative clauses parenthetical commas statement, question, exclamation and a few more! Task can be used for an idea of pupils’ GPS knowledge and could be useful to inform further planning. Both files available as Word and PDF. All answers included in for ease of marking.
Year 3/4 Christmas Reading Comprehension: The Christmas Tree
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Year 3/4 Christmas Reading Comprehension: The Christmas Tree

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Christmas reading comprehension written from the point of view of a Christmas Tree. Just over one page of text with a 15 mark reading comprehension quiz. Questions include: retrieval true and false word comprehension inference Answers are included for ease of marking.
Year 5/6 Football Reading Comprehension: The Substitute.
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Year 5/6 Football Reading Comprehension: The Substitute.

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Reading comprehension (4 pages) about a girl who plays for her reserve team as a striker. She really wants to get her big chance playing in the first team and this story is about her first opportunity. Comprehension includes 16 questions with true/false, fact/opinion, chronological ordering, identifying similes and exclamatory sentences, retrieval and vocabulary/word meanings. Answers are enclosed for ease of marking. Exercise is good practice for SAT reading and the questions are designed to mirror the question types in previous papers.
Year 5/6 Bonfire Night Reading Comprehension: Lights in the Night.
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Year 5/6 Bonfire Night Reading Comprehension: Lights in the Night.

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A reading comprehension about Bonfire Night, comprising of a short poem and a first-person text about the author’s view of November 5th. This text can be used in guided reading, whole-class guided reading or independent reading. The text is accompanied by a comprehension quiz. Text can also be used for modelling writing and GPS. Examples of the following can be found in the text: similes alliteration metaphor multi-clause sentences Subordinating and coordinating conjunctions synonyms fact/opinion true/false inference
Year 5/6 Reading Comprehension - Prometheus Newspaper Article - Ancient Greece
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Year 5/6 Reading Comprehension - Prometheus Newspaper Article - Ancient Greece

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Newspaper article on Prometheus stealing fire from The Gods and giving it to humankind. Uses formal language and writing features expected in a news article as well as including a shift to informality where appropriate in interviews. Article is accompanied by a 14 question (19 mark) reading comprehension comprising of: retrieval inference true/false fact/opinion synonyms language level of formality Available as Word and PDF with answers for ease of marking.
Baseline Year 6 GPS Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling Entry Quiz for Year 6 (SPaG)
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Baseline Year 6 GPS Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling Entry Quiz for Year 6 (SPaG)

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A time saving assessment tool providing a quiz for year sixes to inform their teacher on work that needs to be done in specific areas. Exercises include: Determiners ‘a’ and ‘an’ Which Punctuation Mark?!. Exclamation, Question, Statement or Command? Modal Verbs of Certainty and Possibility Capital Letters and Punctuation Conjunctions and Sentence Types Relative pronouns and clauses Identifying prepositions Using verbs and nouns in context Identifying adverbs and adjective Each page has a 10 mark marking system. You could give the pupils one exercise at at time (out of 10) or give them the whole quiz (out of 90). The quiz could also be used to show progress if taken at the beginning of the autumn term, for example.
Year 5/6 Newspaper Article Reading Comprehension - New Housing Development (fic in non-fic style)
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Year 5/6 Newspaper Article Reading Comprehension - New Housing Development (fic in non-fic style)

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Year 5/6 Reading comprehension based on a newspaper article written about a planned housing development in a fictional town. Contains layout of a newspaper report, opinions and examples of formal writing throughout. Also contains interviews and opinions to provide context to the report. Comes with a 20mark reading comprehension paper with questions based around the following: True and False Fact and Opinion Inference Retrieval Word comprehension Synonym Questions are accompanied by an answer sheet for ease of marking and marking boxes for speedy feeback (especially if peer-marking is to be used).
Year 5/6 Inference Bundle Reading Comprehension
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Year 5/6 Inference Bundle Reading Comprehension

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Short passages that provide children with an inference workout with the purpose of answering 3 mark questions. Questions draw on inference where children need to justify answers, provide evidence from the text and provide information from text where meanings are not explicit. All answers provided for ease of
Year 5/6 A Christmas Carol Reading Comprehension - The Ghost of Christmas Past.
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Year 5/6 A Christmas Carol Reading Comprehension - The Ghost of Christmas Past.

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A two-page first-person narrative written by the Ghost of Christmas Past that describes his visit to Scrooge. A good example of a well-known story being written by another character’s point of view with shifts in formality (good for modeling and discussion). Exercise can be done as whole-class guided reading, group guided reading or individually. Story comes with a 15 question comprehension consisting of: true/false fact/opinion inference retrieval Some elements of GPS All answers are included at the end of the document for ease of marking.
Reasoning Practise for Maths SATs
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Reasoning Practise for Maths SATs

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A set of questions based on number and word problems - includes rounding, reading data, percentages and ratio. This revision exercise is aimed at children working at the expected level
SPAG Part I Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Quick Quiz Year 5  Year 6
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SPAG Part I Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Quick Quiz Year 5 Year 6

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First in series of SPAG/GPS quick quizzes that gradually work through the different aspects of the GPS curriculum. Ideal for early and gradual preparation for the GPS SAT paper in May. Can be used as knowledge retrieval exercise or as a lesson plenary. Answers included on pages 3 and 4 for ease of marking or quick feedback. 50 mark quiz.
Year 6 Christmas Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation Quiz
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Year 6 Christmas Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation Quiz

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A GPS quiz for Christmas consisting of 20 spellings and 20 Grammar and punctuation questions. A time filler for that approach to the end of term and a good assessment tool to see how children are doing in GPS by using the Christmas context. Answers are included for ease of marking. Quizzes can be done individually, in pairs or in cooperative groups.
Year 5/6 Reading Comprehension - The White Pony of the Whistling Wood (fantasy/magical)
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Year 5/6 Reading Comprehension - The White Pony of the Whistling Wood (fantasy/magical)

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3 page story with accompanying 15 mark reading comprehension. Story is about an enchanted wood where 2 children get lost and are guided out by a mysterious white pony. Task can be carried individually, in groups for guided reading or as a whole class. Questions include: retrieval inference fact/opinion true/false word comprehension (synonyms) Task ideal for expected level and greater depth readers. Lower ability year 5 and 6 may require an adult to prompt.
Maths Reasoning Starter on Powerpoint
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Maths Reasoning Starter on Powerpoint

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A reasoning powerpoint incorporating multi-step problems similar to the type encountered in SAT papers. Ideal for year 6 in that it promotes partner/group discussion and discussion of methods and efficient methods.
Identifying Subordinate Conjunctions and Clauses (GPS Revision)
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Identifying Subordinate Conjunctions and Clauses (GPS Revision)

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An exercise children can do in pairs, groups or individually based on identifying subordinate clauses and conjunctions. I find that children often get confused when asked to underline either clauses or the conjunctions. This is a good exercise to get them used to what the vocabulary is referring to.