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!
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!
A full workout on long multiplication - starting with multiplying 3 numbers by a 2-digit number and progressing to 4 digits multiplied by 2-digits.
Exercise provides a 15 question workout that focuses greatly on the 6,7,8 and 9 times tables and tests pupils’ handling of larger numbers from the 20s to the 90s.
Ideal as a maths revision task, holding task or starter/plenary.
Answers are included on pages 3 and 4 for ease of marking.
A short autumn poem with 12 mark reading comprehension to welcome in the autumn term. Five stanza poem describing the author’s feelings about autumn. Question areas include:
retrieval
true and false statements
statements of fact or opinion
word meanings
word comprehension
Answers are included in a separate document for ease of marking.
A nice resource to break pupils into the autumn term. A five stanza poem about autumn accompanied by a 12 mark reading comprehension. Question areas include:
retrieval
true or false
fact and opinion
synonyms
word comprehension
inference
Good for general poetry study or simply as a reading task. Short nature of poem should make the task accessible to most abilities.
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.
A reading comprehension exercise consisting of 4 passages of text and two 3 mark questions accompanying each.
The exercise is designed to help children infer from evidence given in the next when meaning is not always directly described. The task can be carried out independently, as a group guided session or whole class exercise.
Answers are provided for ease of marking for guidance - teachers can use their discretion upon marking.
Short reading comprehension about a wizard’s apprentice who is tempted by the forbidden top shelf of books in his master’s absence.
One A4 page of story text followed by an 8 question quiz (10 marks available).
Questions include:
retrieval
inference
antonyms
word comprehension
Answers are included for ease of marking. Exercise is ideal for online teaching as well as in the classroom.
I sometimes find children can be slightly unclear on the actual difference between fact and opinion. This always seems to come up in the SAT reading papers so I constructed this short exercise that incorporates a passage on New York. Should serve well as a 10 minute starter that can be discussed as a class afterwards. Alternatively, it could serve as a shared class reading exercise.
Range of word problems that incorporate 2-step and multi-step challenges.
There are 15 word problems in total (duplicated on the page 2-4 times so that they can easily be cut up and given out).
A good resource for setting homework on a ‘problem a day’ basis or acting as an extension task if you want to laminate them and put them in a pot (this is what I do).
Problems range from:
area
algebra
difference
money
fractions
percentages
ratio
Problems are also good for class discussion and promoting reasoning/understanding skills.
Answers are included at back of document for ease of marking and immediate feedback.
Useful assessment task that can be used in conjunction with the published elicitation task to show progress. Includes simple addition, subtraction, short division and multiplication, decimals, basic algebra and fraction to decimal conversion.
Answers are included for ease of marking.
Contains some original wording from the Shakespeare script. Some of the names and places are local to me and can be easily adapted to suit other geographical regions. I had my year 6s perform this as a film and it worked very well. Both children and parents greatly enjoyed the experience.
Report/documentary style reading comprehension (fictional!) on UFO and alien sightings in Fieldmarsh Forest. Two Spooky accounts, with fact boxes, documenting alien and UFO sightings since 1964. 20 mark question scheme for children to answer. Style of questions modelled on SAT reading papers.
Contains examples of:
True/false
Fact/opinion
Chronological sequencing
Inference
Recall/retrieval
Separate answer sheet file is included for ease of marking.
Hope your children enjoy!
Two page reading comprehension - contains references to ghosts and witchcraft.
Followed by 18 mark reading comprehension that includes questions on:
retrieval
inference
true/false
fact/opinion
word comprehension/synonyms
ordering events chronologically
Answers are included in a separate file for ease of marking.
Exercise can be conducted independently, in pairs/small groups or as a larger group/whole class guided reading task.
A two page reading comprehension with photographs. The text is a first person recount of an author’s experiences of visiting a Devon landscape during his childhood. The text is followed by a 20 mark reading comprehension quiz and poses questions in the following categories:
retrieval
Fact and opinion
True and false
Inference
Word comprehension (synonyms)
The format is available in both word and PDF and also comes with the answers for ease of marking.
Two starter exercises for warming up the word - a good starter for when children come in first thing in the morning - can be continued as the morning exercise throughout the week.
1st exercise = 48 synonyms to be matched.
2nd exercise = 48 antonyms to be matched.
Words vary in difficulty and demand on prior vocabulary knowledge so will suit children of differing abilities. Good opportunities for discussion and use of thesaurus if needed.
2 page reading comprehension where Father Christmas writes his own festive wish-list to the children. Activity is accompanied by a 22 mark reading comprehension quiz consisting of questions based on:
retrieval
Fact or opinion
True of false
Synonyms
Word comprehension
inference
recall
Answers are included in a separate file for ease of marking.
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
A mean average word problem task with two levels of differentiation. Basic finding the mean and a second sheet incorporating more challenging problems.
Basic word problems
Interpreting information from tables and find the mean
For the two short, a question is also included that includes fractions and giving a fractional answer (this will involve adding fractions with different denominators and finding the average of the result).
This worksheet is available in both Word and PDF formats and can be given out in class as part of a plenary, main activity or for online learning.
A science fiction for years 5 and 6.
The story is a teaching written novella (10 pages) split into 5 chapters. Each chapter has its own accompanying comprehension quiz of around 10 questions. Answers are also enclosed for ease of marking.
The story is about a future NASA crew who are sent to investigate a mysterious crack on the far edge of the known universe - but things soon go wrong.
Story can be read in guided groups, whole class guided reading or individually.
Simply titled ‘Bed’, this is a short poem (text on 1 side of A4) reading comprehension with 6 accompanying questions (10 marks available).
Ideal for a half hour reading exercise to hone skills in:
retrieval
inference
features of poetry
synonym
word comprehension
Answers are included for ease of marking and available in both Word and PDF formats for online learning.
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.