Thus, the "pass mark" for children taking the 2018 KS2 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling SATs was 38/70 or 54.3%. Creating your own resources to build confidence and expertise in reading comprehension can be time consuming. As this analysis of the 2018 KS2 Reading SAT shows, children need access to rich, challenging text; they need to experience a range of question formats that use the language of the tests; and they need exposure to words and phrases beyond those they experience in their everyday lives. This is where Reading Detectives can help you out.

We began to play and talk about the good old times with her father, we laughed all night and there was a few sad moments but I think I can safely say we had a lovely evening. I wrote Albion's Dream in six months; Red Die took me 18 years (!), Shadowborne also went through many revisions. These made the dice trilogy, ghost stories in which the present is haunted by the past. Treetime was written for younger children and led to my fruitful relationship with the Istanbul publishers Yapi Kredi, who have published some of my stories directly into Turkish. Treetime is in its 20th edition in Turkey. My new book is a collection of short stories called Borrowed Voices, in which the only ghosts are literary. As we do not yet know how well children performed in this item, I would hope that although the layout of the question was different, many year 6 readers will have coped with this style of question.

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Every school's KS2 SATs performance was made publicly available in December 2018 as part of the 2018 primary school league tables. 2018 KS2 SATs Exam Timetable Date Identify/explain how information/narrative content is related and contributes to meaning as a whole No I haven't! What is it and why are you so bothered about it?" I shouted clutching the box even tighter. The last item in the collection, question 40, was the second 3-mark question. This was presented again with a clear structure perhaps allowing those less confident readers to attempt a response, but it definitely demanded a greater depth understanding of the text. If we put this into perspective, it is the last item in the test and is there to challenge those very able readers. That is exactly what it did. Excellent use of adventurous vocabulary RMc :) and lots of effective verbs. great work. Prize Box!!

For the third year running, inferring information from the text (2d) was the most tested aspect of the Reading Content Domain. There were two 2d marks available for The Giant Panda Bear, nine for Grannie and eleven for Albion’s Dream. Just like last year, the majority of these 2d marks came from the third text. And unsurprisingly, the least 2d questions were asked of the non-fiction text. Retrieving information (2b) was the second most tested aspect of the Reading Content Domain with nine marks available for The Giant Panda Bear, three marks for Grannie and one mark for Albion’s Dream. Vocabulary has now contributed to 20% of the available marks in the KS2 reading SAT for the past three years. The marks were fairly evenly distributed across the three texts with three for The Giant Panda, four for Grannie and three for Albion’s Dream. urn:lcp:albionsdream0000norm:epub:45ca052e-69a5-475a-aa3e-5c5cceb647ea Foldoutcount 0 Identifier albionsdream0000norm Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0sr8vw9w Invoice 1652 Isbn 0571154255

From 2011 KS2 SATs Science tests were replaced with teacher assessments in Science but a random selection of schools should take national sampling Science tests to monitor standards. I stood rooted to the spot. What was so special about the box that Em Sharp wanted it so badly? She stared at me, unblinking and vicious. I had never seen Em so angry. But she also looked scared. I could see it in her eyes. My instinct was telling me to give it her but I was too curious to see what was in it.

I will not give it to you!” I shouted while running away with the box in my hand.I looked over my shoulder to find out she’s gotten stopped by all the people walking by.I found the perfect stop place a corner next to a house,I breathed heavily as I was moving my head side to side trying to find a place to hide. We need 11. If we get 11 we have got a chance. We've got to get that, we cannot keep shooting ourselves in the foot."However, one of the 3-mark questions was set out in a style that we had only previously seen in historic level 6 reading tests. After analysing the style of question 38, I hope that the structure given will have provided a scaffold for children to respond to. Rather than criticise this as an old level 6 style question now appearing in the KS2 test, we should embrace this style of question as the table provided children with a structure, so they could clearly present their points and evidence. Whilst preparing my own year 6 class for the KS2 reading test, I always use the analogy of, ‘ Year 6, you never know what starter, main course and dessert you will be served up this year when you open the reading booklet!’ referring to the choice of 3 extracts! That is certainly true.