This Spring Year 4 GPS Assessment Resource Pack has been created to assess pupil knowledge of all the blocks and small steps covered so far in the Spring term. The pack includes an SATs style assessment with 16 questions linked to all of the small steps in Spring; a mark scheme with content domain coverage, small step coverage with suggested levels and a teacher assessment spreadsheet to identify pupils working at Year 4 Emerging, Year 4 Developing, Year 4 Expected or Year 4 Greater Depth. These levels are currently provided as a guideline only.
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This pack includes:
1.Recognising Apostrophes – Difference between possession and omission
2.Using Apostrophes for Plural Possession – apostrophe comes after the s to show it is a plural possession (it belongs to all of them), use words that end in s as well as words like children that need an ‘s
3.When Should you not use an Apostrophe – apostrophes used incorrectly for plural i.e. there were many cat’s.
4.Using Apostrophes for Possession or Omission – including examples where no apostrophe is needed
Spring Block 2 Speech
Small Steps
1.Recognising Speech – highlighting which words are spoken in both direct and indirect
2.Punctuating Direct Speech
3.Direct Speech or Indirect Speech? – recognising speech in both forms and converting from one to the other
Spring Block 3 Noun Phrases
Small Steps
1.Identifying Noun Phrases – basic, simple noun phrases so far (see Year 2)
2.Modifying Adjectives and Nouns
3.Determiners Before Modifiers – see NC Glossary guidance for determiners.
4.Preposition Phrases
5.Using Expanded Noun Phrases
Spring Block 4 Suffixes
Small Steps
1.Word Families – root words, recognising and using word families
2.Adding ‘-sure’, ‘-ture’ or ‘-cher’ – spelling appendix guidance
3.Adding ‘-ation’, ‘-sion’, ‘-ssion’, ‘-tion’ or –cian
4.Using suffixes – optional step using all suffixes for Year 4.
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