Tutors' Guild Year Six English Tutor Assessment Pack

Giles Clare  Giles Clare is an experienced primary school teacher. With over 10 years' experience in Year 6, he understands the challenges of preparing students for their National Curriculum tests and supporting them through this process. He has written educational resources for a number of major publishers, including Pearson REVISE Key Stage 2 SATs series for English and Maths.  Catherine Baker  Catherine Baker has been an editor and writer of teachers' and pupils' literacy materials for over 25 years. Recently she has contributed to the Pearson REVISE Key Stage 2 SATs series for English.

• Year 6 English Tutor Assessment Pack • How to use the pack• Information for parents• Assessment guidance• Progress tracking• Talk about the test• Checkpoint challenges- Reading checkpoint challenge- Writing checkpoint challenge- Grammar and punctuation checkpoint challenge- Spelling checkpoint challenge• Topic tests- Topic test 1 Diagnostic lesson- Topic test 2 Question types- Topic test 3 Non-fiction features- Topic test 4 Finding answers- Topic test 5 Character, theme and language- Topic test 6 Meaning- Topic test 7 Making comparisons- Topic test 8 Poetry (similes and metaphors)- Topic test 9 Poetry (other figurative language)- Topic test 10 Audience and purpose- Topic test 11 The writing process- Topic test 12 The editing process- Topic test 13 Writing: articles- Topic test 14 Writing: explanations- Topic test 15 Writing: persuasive letters- Topic test 16 Writing: balanced arguments- Topic test 17 Writing: fiction- Topic test 18 Nouns- Topic test 19 Pronouns and determiners- Topic test 20 Adjectives and adverbs- Topic test 21 Verbs – present- Topic test 22 Verbs – past- Topic test 23 Verbs – future and modal- Topic test 24 Conjunctions and prepositions- Topic test 25 Sentence types- Topic test 26 Subject and object- Topic test 27 Clauses- Topic test 28 Standard English- Topic test 29 Basic sentence punctuation- Topic test 30 Commas- Topic test 31 Parenthesis- Topic test 32 Colons and semi-colons- Topic test 33 Apostrophes- Topic test 34 Punctuating speech- Topic test 35 Hyphens and single dashes- Topic test 36 Word families- Topic test 37 Synonyms, antonyms and homophones- Topic test 38 Tricky spellings• Practice paper- Reading booklet- Reading answer booklet- Grammar, punctuation and spelling: questions- Grammar, punctuation and spelling: spelling• Answers