I am currently a year 5/6 teacher in Devon so I create a great many resources throughout the year - particularly when it comes to that dreaded SAT time of year. Hope you will find many helpful resources here to save you time during the hectic 2 term year that is Year 6!
I am currently a year 5/6 teacher in Devon so I create a great many resources throughout the year - particularly when it comes to that dreaded SAT time of year. Hope you will find many helpful resources here to save you time during the hectic 2 term year that is Year 6!
Worksheet that gives students a full 4 operations workout, combining fluency and application in solving word problems. Resource includes 3 differentiated worksheets to cater for low ability year 5 through to high ability year 6 (one, two and three star sheets).
Problems include:
addition/subtraction
multiplication/division
long multiplication/long division/short division
times table practise
one, two and multi-step problems/operations
Good for SAT revision, general workout after a holiday, holding task, extension to any work being conducted within additive or multiplicative reasoning.
Answer sheets included for ease of marking.
Reading comprehension (4 pages) about a girl who plays for her reserve team as a striker. She really wants to get her big chance playing in the first team and this story is about her first opportunity.
Comprehension includes 16 questions with true/false, fact/opinion, chronological ordering, identifying similes and exclamatory sentences, retrieval and vocabulary/word meanings.
Answers are enclosed for ease of marking.
Exercise is good practice for SAT reading and the questions are designed to mirror the question types in previous papers.
A 24 mark reading comprehension written in non-fiction style. 4 paragraphs for children to read and then answer questions on.
Question types include:
Retrieval
Synonyms
Word comprehension
Inference
Fact and Opinion
True or False
A great resource for SAT preparation, general reading practise, guided reading or all three!
Answer scheme included for ease of marking.
Four short passages where children must use inference with regards to the text in order to answer 3 mark questions. This is good practice for providing evidence from the text itself and explaining reasoning.
These exercises can be carried out in a whole class guided reading environment, small groups or individually. Might be a good idea to one text as a class and discuss how to answer the questions. Give another as a paired exercise and the final two as individual work.
A teacher notes/answers sheet is provided as a separate file for ease of marking.
A reading comprehension about Bonfire Night, comprising of a short poem and a first-person text about the author’s view of November 5th.
This text can be used in guided reading, whole-class guided reading or independent reading. The text is accompanied by a comprehension quiz.
Text can also be used for modelling writing and GPS.
Examples of the following can be found in the text:
similes
alliteration
metaphor
multi-clause sentences
Subordinating and coordinating conjunctions
synonyms
fact/opinion
true/false
inference
A time saving assessment tool providing a quiz for year sixes to inform their teacher on work that needs to be done in specific areas. Exercises include:
Determiners ‘a’ and ‘an’
Which Punctuation Mark?!.
Exclamation, Question, Statement or Command?
Modal Verbs of Certainty and Possibility
Capital Letters and Punctuation
Conjunctions and Sentence Types
Relative pronouns and clauses
Identifying prepositions
Using verbs and nouns in context
Identifying adverbs and adjective
Each page has a 10 mark marking system. You could give the pupils one exercise at at time (out of 10) or give them the whole quiz (out of 90). The quiz could also be used to show progress if taken at the beginning of the autumn term, for example.
Year 5/6 Reading comprehension based on a newspaper article written about a planned housing development in a fictional town. Contains layout of a newspaper report, opinions and examples of formal writing throughout. Also contains interviews and opinions to provide context to the report.
Comes with a 20mark reading comprehension paper with questions based around the following:
True and False
Fact and Opinion
Inference
Retrieval
Word comprehension
Synonym
Questions are accompanied by an answer sheet for ease of marking and marking boxes for speedy feeback (especially if peer-marking is to be used).
Two starter exercises for warming up the word - a good starter for when children come in first thing in the morning - can be continued as the morning exercise throughout the week.
1st exercise = 48 synonyms to be matched.
2nd exercise = 48 antonyms to be matched.
Words vary in difficulty and demand on prior vocabulary knowledge so will suit children of differing abilities. Good opportunities for discussion and use of thesaurus if needed.
A two-page first-person narrative written by the Ghost of Christmas Past that describes his visit to Scrooge. A good example of a well-known story being written by another character’s point of view with shifts in formality (good for modeling and discussion). Exercise can be done as whole-class guided reading, group guided reading or individually.
Story comes with a 15 question comprehension consisting of:
true/false
fact/opinion
inference
retrieval
Some elements of GPS
All answers are included at the end of the document for ease of marking.
2 separate worksheets (with answers for ease of marking) that call on pupils to identify main, subordinate and relative clauses in different sentences. The method asks for similar identification to that asked for in the GPS SATs test so can be used as a good foundation for revision or simple teaching throughout upper key stage 2.
1 page of reading - Oliver Twist Reading Comprehension for Year 5 and 6.
Text is taken from the opening page of Dickens’ Oliver Twist.
Some text has been altered to make it less antiquated and age appropriate so it is not entirely the original text (but it is close and the same in meaning).
24 mark reading comprehension (with answers for ease of marking).
retrieval
inference
fact and opinion
true and false
word comprehension and synonym
Poem about an old oak tree that discusses getting old and seeing better days. Useful for examples of metaphor and alliteration, with other poetry conventions.
20 mark comprehension quiz to accompany the poem, incorporating:
**inference
retrieval
fact/opinion
true/false
chronological ordering
**
Exercise is accompanied by an answer sheet (separate file) for ease of marking.
Good practice in the run-up to the SAT reading paper as poetry may be one of the reading sections (it was last year!).
Hope you enjoy.
A GPS quiz for Christmas consisting of 20 spellings and 20 Grammar and punctuation questions.
A time filler for that approach to the end of term and a good assessment tool to see how children are doing in GPS by using the Christmas context.
Answers are included for ease of marking.
Quizzes can be done individually, in pairs or in cooperative groups.
3 page story with accompanying 15 mark reading comprehension. Story is about an enchanted wood where 2 children get lost and are guided out by a mysterious white pony. Task can be carried individually, in groups for guided reading or as a whole class.
Questions include:
retrieval
inference
fact/opinion
true/false
word comprehension (synonyms)
Task ideal for expected level and greater depth readers. Lower ability year 5 and 6 may require an adult to prompt.
Short passages that provide children with an inference workout with the purpose of answering 3 mark questions. Questions draw on inference where children need to justify answers, provide evidence from the text and provide information from text where meanings are not explicit.
All answers provided for ease of
Two page reading comprehension - contains references to ghosts and witchcraft.
Followed by 18 mark reading comprehension that includes questions on:
retrieval
inference
true/false
fact/opinion
word comprehension/synonyms
ordering events chronologically
Answers are included in a separate file for ease of marking.
Exercise can be conducted independently, in pairs/small groups or as a larger group/whole class guided reading task.
Newspaper article on Prometheus stealing fire from The Gods and giving it to humankind. Uses formal language and writing features expected in a news article as well as including a shift to informality where appropriate in interviews.
Article is accompanied by a 14 question (19 mark) reading comprehension comprising of:
retrieval
inference
true/false
fact/opinion
synonyms
language
level of formality
Available as Word and PDF with answers for ease of marking.
A set of questions based on number and word problems - includes rounding, reading data, percentages and ratio. This revision exercise is aimed at children working at the expected level
A reasoning powerpoint incorporating multi-step problems similar to the type encountered in SAT papers. Ideal for year 6 in that it promotes partner/group discussion and discussion of methods and efficient methods.
A good starter exercise just to reinforce which numbers are prime and which are not. How do we know if a number is prime?
Some work on common factors also.