Aims of tonight.
 Give you a taster of some of the tasks your child will be
facing in their SATS in the week starting Monday
12th.May.
 Provide some suggestions as to how you can help your
child at home in terms of literacy.
 Highlight what your child should be doing in literacy
by the end of Year 6.
Grammar.
 In the May SATS, your child will have to sit a grammar
paper which tests them on their knowledge, and skills,
of the English language.
 They need to know definitions of terms such as proper
noun, adverb and pronoun to name but a few!
 Their punctuation skills need to be spot on as they will
also be tested on their knowledge and application of
these. They need to be using the full range of
punctuation, such as brackets and colons, not just
capital letters, full stops and commas.
Spelling.
 In addition to the grammar paper, there will be a
spelling test, 20 words that get progressively more
difficult.
 Children need to know common spelling rules, i.e.
rules for plural words, adding a suffix such as ‘ful’ etc.
 Encourage them to break unfamiliar words into the
syllables, or parts, they are made from , for example,
the word ‘particular’ has 4 syllables – par – tic – u – lar.
Writing.
 Being able to talk clearly about want they want to write
down on paper is crucial for being a good writer.
 Encourage your child to talk about EVERYTHING!!
 Try and develop their interest and knowledge in the
wider World around them so that they can discuss,
and write about, topical issues.
 Your child should be using interesting vocabulary in
their writing because this will help them write
descriptively and in detail. You could have a ‘word of
the week’ that the whole family tries to use in
conversation.
Reading.
 Good readers make good writers!!!
 Your child should be reading every day to help them with:
fluency, gaining ideas that they could use in their own
writing, increasing their vocabulary, seeing words regularly
that will help them with their spelling.
 They should be able to talk about what they have read
clearly, re-telling the plotline in detail.
 Ask your child questions about their book where the
answers are not obvious, for example, “How do you think
the main character was feeling? What bits of the text give
you that impression?” Using evidence from the text to back
up their answers is a vital skill that they will be required to
do in their SATS.
Thank you!
 Thank you for coming this evening.
 Year 6 is a tough year – for everyone, not just the children!!
 We need you to work with your child at home to make sure
that in their SATS they really show what they are capable
of.
 Encourage your child to develop their organisational skills
which will help them with their revision.
 Talk to your child about their self-motivation. Setting
realistic goals for themselves, and then new ones when they
have achieved existing ones, will help enormously.