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With the 2016 SATs on their way, we thought we'd step in and offer you some friendly support in preparing your Year 6 students for the upcoming test for English.
We've put together a fantastic list of Activities on EducationCity that'll help you support the learning of Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar – perfect for helping you teach students important concepts!
Here's why these Activities can help you:
- Hand-picked by our Education Team: who have a wealth of experience in primary school teaching.
- Engaging and enjoyable: EducationCity's content makes learning a valuable, fun experience.
- Curriculum-mapped: all the Activities are mapped to the National Curriculum, so your students have the best resources to get prepared with.
All you need to do is log in to EducationCity to access the Activities – simple!*
Here are the Activities we recommend for you to use…
Don't forget that many Activities come with accompanying peripheral content in the form of Learn Screens, Lesson Ideas, Teacher Notes, Activity Sheets and Activity Sheet Answers.
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, brackets, 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
Hope your test prep goes well! Just get in touch on +44 (0)1572 725080 or email info@educationcity.com if you want to hear about more ways we can support your students with their tests.
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