KS2 SATs

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KS2 SATs ENGLISH
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• The Test
• Reading Comprehension (1 hour)
• Longer Writing Task, including handwriting (45
  minutes)
• Shorter Writing Task (20 minutes)
• Spelling Test

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Allocation of marks
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• Assessment focuses for reading
• The assessment will test the childrens ability
  to
• Use a range of strategies, including accurate
  decoding of text, to read for meaning
• Understand, describe, select or retrieve
  information, events or ideas from texts
• Deduce, infer or interpret events or ideas from
  the text
• Identify and comment on the structure and
  organisation of texts, at word and sentence
  level
• Explain and comment on writers use of language,
  at word and sentence level
• Identify and comment on writers purpose and
  viewpoint and the overall effect of the text on
  the reader
• Relate texts to their social, cultural and
  historical contexts and literacy traditions

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These questions are about Evelyn Glennie a
short biography. 1. Which of these instruments
did Evelyn learn as a child? Ring one.

• This table shows the dates of some important
  events in
• Evelyns life. Fill in the three gaps.

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This question is about the whole booklet. The
editors comments appear all through the magazine
to introduce different sections. Do you think
this is a good idea? Yes
No
Yes and no
Explain your answer fully. ..
. ...
... ..
.
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• Assessment focuses for writing
• The assessment will test the childrens ability
  to
• Produce texts which are appropriate to task,
  reader and purpose
• Organise and present whole texts effectively,
  sequencing and structuring information, ideas and
  events
• Construct paragraphs and use cohesion between
  paragraphs
• Vary sentences for clarity and effect
• Select appropriate and effective vocabulary
• Write with technical accuracy punctuation!
• Use correct spelling (assessed through spelling
  test).
• Write imaginative, interesting and thoughtful
  texts

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• Example spelling test
• washing
• before
• healthy
• disease
• serious
• material
• process
• essential
• available
• 10. survive
• 11. supply
• 12. release
• 13. surprising
• 14. advantage

14. advantage 15. properties 16. medicine 17.
physical 18. varieties 19. remember 20. design
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