As the Year 6 teachers around the country start the serious countdown (and consumption of adult beverages) to SATs week I have brought together some of my favourite resources to ease us into the potentially manic after Easter prep…
I truly believe in little and often and think that a carefully planned timetable of SATs prep activities can ensure focused and meaningful use of the school day rather than hours on ploughing through past papers (if you do use SATs papers it is most effective if worked on in pairs).
EGPS:
Really useful daily EGPS sessions are a must and to resource these I have used a variety of ready made resources. If you have a Twinkl subscription then the Year 6 Grammar Revision Guide and Quick Quiz Bumper Pack are great for clear explanations of each key grammar objective and the use SATs style questions to test understanding.
To mix things up a bit there are Follow Me cards….
Click to access spagfollowmecards_0.pdf
The fantastic Grammarsaurus have a free YouTube channel with songs to help remember rules and great tutorials giving simple explanations for some of the most complex rules which are essential for the SAT.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMhWKrdwzFr994ZhwqG4nlA/videos
If you have a subscription to Grammarsaurus then there is an amazing quantity of EGPS resources for you to choose from – the site is well worth investing in.
Reading:
Again I follow the mantra of little and often when preparing for the reading SAT. These RIC activities created by MrsP Teach are great at getting children to look at texts in different way, including thinking about the ever elusive inference. These can be used daily to start English lessons, guided reading or to drop in at any time of day…
http://www.mrspteach.com/2015/04/ric-starter-examples.html
Use SATs style questions with the text you are using in English or guided reading lessons. These question stems from Primary English Educational Consultancy are really useful…
Click to access 2015-GR-question-prompts_KS2.pdf
Also there are some great question stems from Alison Philipson Literacy – these are usefully colour coded to show which past paper they were taken from…
Y6 Reading Question Stems Based on Content Domain of the KS2 Test
I have put together my Year 6 reading intervention (written one Summer hols when I had no life…) on TES which encourages fluency and vocabulary focus as well as comprehension. Some of you might find it useful I hope.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/sats-reading-revision-intervention-11532769
Good luck…and remember it takes a team to teach the children not just the Year 6 teacher!
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