Search for clues to help you read, understand and enjoy increasingly challenging texts

Make inferences and refer to evidence in the text

What can the reader infer about the characters from their actions and behaviour?

What is the writer not telling us?

Can you find evidence from different places in the text to support your explanation?

Check understanding to make sure that texts make sense

• Ask questions Why is he doing that?

• Pass comments I hope he gets what he deserves!

• Feel involved Run! Go on. Get out of there! Watch out! Oh no!

• Empathise It’s just like when I… That’s just what I’d do. Rationalise what

is happening If he’s an angel why does he behave badly? Lions kill to

survive.

• Reread Go back over the best bits, check your suspicions, enjoy it again.

• Re-interpret Keep checking and evaluating your ideas.

Grammar Punctuation

Spelling

Main clause

Subordinate

clause

Co-ordinating

conjunction

Embedded clause

Subordinating

conjunction

Grammar

Punctuation

Common Exception Words

marvellous

mischievous

muscle

necessary

neighbour

nuisance

occupy

occur

Homophones and other words that are often confused

descent/dissent desert/dessert draft/draught profit/prophet stationary/stationery who’s/whose

Writing Teacher assessed

Handwriting

Audience Purpose Text

Structure

Vocabulary Conventions

Text Type - Biography

Lewis Hamilton

Born: 7th January 1985 Birthplace: Stevenage, United Kingdom

Lewis Hamilton began karting aged eight. Two years later won the British karting championship (cadet class) and STP karting championship.

How to succeed Title

Date of Birth Place of Birth

Chronological order Facts

Mostly past tense Photograph

Mathematics exam

•Paper 1: Arithmetic Test

36 questions (30 minutes)

•Papers 2 and 3: Reasoning

•Approximately 25 questions (40 minutes per paper)

Arithmetic test • Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

• Multiply multi-digit numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit whole number using the formal written method of long multiplication.

• Multiply and divide numbers by 10, 100 and 1000 giving answers up to three decimal places.

• Multiply one-digit numbers with up to two decimal places by whole numbers.

• Divide numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit whole number using the formal written method of long division, including remainders.

• Use written division methods in cases where the answer has up to two decimal places.

• Use your knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the four operations. (BODMAS)

Arithmetic test • Use common factors to simplify fractions; use common multiples to express

fractions with the same denominator.

• Add and subtract fractions with different denominators and mixed numbers, using equivalent fractions.

• Multiply simple pairs of proper fractions, writing the answer in its simplest form [for example, ¼ × ½ = 1⁄8]

• Divide proper fractions by whole numbers [for example, 1⁄3 ÷ 2 = 1⁄6]

• Convert between fractions, decimals and percentages.

• Solve problems involving calculating a fraction of a number [for example, ¼ of 80]

• Solve problems involving the calculation of percentages [for example, of measures, and such as 15% of 360].

Year 6 Revision

We all want the children to achieve their very best in the new, very challenging, KS2 tests. We have put together a few things that will be of most benefit to go over in the next few weeks.

Learn spellings

Read, with an adult, daily

• Read a variety of different things e.g. non-fiction, fiction, instructions, recipes, newspapers, maps, leaflets, notices, letters

• for fluency

• skim and scan for key information/specific words

• comprehension – ask and answer questions using the ‘Reading Detective’

Top Trumps

Learn some of the key terms for the grammar, punctuation and spelling test

Useful Websites

BBC Bitesize KS2

Year 6 Revision

We all want the children to achieve their very best in the new, very challenging, KS2 tests. We have put together a few things that will be of most benefit to go over in the next few weeks.

Learn times tables with instant recall (and out of order or as division statements).

This needs to be learned as a sentence to be of most benefit. i.e. ‘three fours are twelve’ is a useful number fact. From this we know that four threes are twelve, twelve divided by four is three, thirty fours are one hundred and twenty and so on. Counting in fours is a skill: 4, 8, 12, but is less useful in tests.

Learn the definitions of maths key terms.

Practise the key skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Order your ‘Achieve 100 Maths Revision Guide’ tonight (or through Gateway) or purchase something similar. This will be a key part of your child’s Pick and Mix Home Learning.

Useful Websites

BBC Bitesize KS2

Maths is Fun

Mathematics Shed