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Autumn Year 5 Baseline SPaG (GPS) Assessment

 Year 5 Baseline SPaG (GPS) Assessment

Year 5 Baseline SPaG (GPS) Assessment

This Year 5 Baseline SPaG (GPS) Assessment resource allows teachers to assess children's prior knowledge at the start of the year. Each question is linked to the Year 4 objectives for Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation and the results can be analysed using the spreadsheet. This assessment will help identify gaps in learning and inform planning.

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What's included in the pack?

This pack includes:

  • Baseline SPaG (GPS) Assessments for Year 5.
  • Tracking spreadsheet to help identify gaps in knowledge.  Answers included.

Year 4 National Curriculum Objectives:

Writing – Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation

Year 3 and 4 English: (4G1.5) Appropriate choice of pronoun or noun within and across sentences to aid cohesion and avoid repetition

Year 3 and 4 English: (4G3.2) Noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases (e.g. the teacher expanded to: the strict maths teacher with curly hair)

Year 3 and 4 English: (4G5.6b) Fronted adverbials [for example, Later that day, I heard the bad news.]

Year 3 and 4 English: (4G5.6b) Use commas after fronted adverbials

Year 3 and 4 English: (4G5.8) The grammatical difference between plural and possessive –s

Year 3 and 4 English: (4G5.7) Use of inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech [for example, a comma after the reporting clause; end punctuation within inverted commas: The conductor shouted, “Sit down!”]

Year 3 and 4 English: (4G5.8) Apostrophes to mark plural possession [for example, the girl’s name, the girls’ names]

Year 3 and 4 English: (4G7.1) Standard English forms for verb inflections instead of local spoken forms [for example, we were instead of we was, or I did instead of I done]

Use of paragraphs to organise ideas around a theme

 

Terminology for pupils:

Year 4 English: (4G1.5) pronoun

Year 4 English: (4G1.5a) possessive pronoun

Year 4 English (4G1.6a) adverbial

Year 4 English: (4G1.8) determiner

 

*This objective is not covered in the baseline assessment

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