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To support you in preparing your Year 6 students for the 2016 SATs for English, we've put together a number of Activities that'll help you teach the areas of Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar – ideal for the upcoming tests!
How's how these Activities can help you:
- Picked by our Education Team: who have a wealth of experience in primary school teaching.
- Engaging, enjoyable content: that makes learning a fun and valuable experience.
- Mapped to the curriculum: being mapped to the National Curriculum, your students have the best resources to get prepared with.
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Here're the Activities:
A helpful point to note is that many Activities come with accompanying peripheral content in the form of Learn Screens, Lesson Ideas, Teacher Notes, Activity Sheets and Activity Sheet Answers for additional reinforcement.
Spelling
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Hot and Spicy – Use knowledge of prefixes to develop new words.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Words Win Prizes – Spell words with common prefixes: in, im, ir, il, pro, sus.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Words Win Prizes – Spell words with common prefixes: un, de, dis, re, pre.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Snow Hope – Word endings: consonant suffixes ‘ly’, ‘ful’, ‘less’.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Treasure of the Deep – Spell words with suffixes: age, ed, est, er, ing, ful, ly, less, ness.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Captain Cod – Word endings: add a suffix to words ending in ‘y’.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Captain Cod – Spell longer words from root words.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Captain Cod – Pluralisation: irregular plurals.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Captain Cod – Word endings: Vowel suffixes ic, ist, ive.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Sten the Wizard – High frequency words: common letter clusters ‘our’, ‘ough’, ‘ear’, ‘ight’, ‘ice’, ‘aus’.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Cave Escape – Spell words using the rule i before e except after c (only with the ‘ee’ sound).
- England: Year 5 & 6
Slam Dunk – Spell a range of high frequency words.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Slam Dunk – High frequency words ‘f’ to ‘p’.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Slam Dunk – Spell words correctly.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Punctuation
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Force Field – Match the name of the punctuation mark with the actual punctuation mark.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Force Field – Match punctuation marks to their definitions.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Fantasy Football – Place full stops, commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, quotation marks, question marks and exclamation marks within a passage with prompts to help.
- England: Year 5
River Deep – Place full stops, commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, quotation marks, question marks and exclamation marks within a passage with prompts to help.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Phantom Ellipsis – Understand and use punctuation.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Grammar
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Wilderness Park – To identify the common noun, proper noun, collective noun or noun phrase within a sentence.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Wilderness Park – To identify the verb, adverb, adjective and preposition within a sentence.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Wilderness Park – To identify the article, conjunction and interjection within a sentence.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Fish with Manu – Use and understand the terms ‘active’ and ‘passive’ in relation to verbs.
- England: Year 5 & 6
Temple Crusade – Identify the missing verb or noun so the sentence makes sense.
- England: Year 5 & 6
City Lights – Use conditionals, conjunctions and correct verb tenses (without audio support).
- England: Year 5 & 6
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