1. SATs

2. The Government have produced interim assessment documents that your child will be measured against. Whereas in the past, these judgement would be a best fit, your child now has to meet every objective to meet national expectations. The following slides show you the assessment targets.

3. READING

4. Reading

7. The most worrying of these objectives is your child being expected to read at a rate of over 90 words per minute out loud. You can help by doing this at home. Literally timing how many words your child can read in one minute. (white band books)We cannot stress enough the importance of your child reading at home every night, if possible, and you asking them questions about the text, especially inference questions.

8. Inference: is an interpretation that goes beyond the literal information given.
Deduction: is an understanding based on the evidence given in the text.
e.g. the police find a body with a knife sticking out of it. They can deduce that the person has probably been murdered. They could infer that someone didn’t like that person.

9. We want our children to become Reading Detectives

10. LOOKING FOR CLUES

11. FINDING THE EVIDENCE

12. Reading SATs
Paper 1 – very much like the old reading paper. A piece of text followed by 2 questions. One is usually a tick box, multiple choice question and then something copied or written. All in the one book.
Paper 2 – 2 separate books. A reading book and an answer booklet. Similar to old level 3. BUT- all children have to do both papers.
Once complete the government will give a standardised score.

13. There will be work on poetry and it is important that children understand the meaning of words and why particular words have been chosen. Therefore, when reading with your child, please check they understand the vocabulary and ask them why a specific word has been used by the author.

14. Have a look at the Sample papers

21. WRITING

26. What you can do to help.
Encourage your child to write at home using punctuation correctly.
Extending sentences with and, but, because, so, when..
Presenting writing neatly with a focus on handwriting.
Make sure your child learns their spellings and that you keep going over them.

27. Writing SAT- Teacher assessment and will based on work in books completed across the curriculum.
In addition to this your child will have to sit a spelling test and a SPAG test. We have been working on this in school and will now be sending out short tasks with homework.

28. SPAG sample paper

29. Maths

33. Maths

40. SAT Papers
Paper 1 – Arithmetic 25 questions to be completed without any support materials
Paper 2- reasoning paper with support materials

41. Paper 1 ARITHMETIC

51. Paper 2 - Reasoning

56. What you can do to help
Provide your child with opportunities to solve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division calculations, including those with missing numbers. Apply this to real life problems.
Learn times tables and number facts
Name 2d and 3d shapes and be able to describe their properties
Ask your child to explain their thinking and ask them to show you how they solved a question.