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Autumn Year 6 Baseline SPaG (GPS) Assessment

Year 6 Baseline SPaG (GPS) Assessment

This Year 6 Baseline SPaG (GPS) Assessment resource is designed to help teachers assess prior knowledge and identify gaps in preparation for Year 6. The results tracker will help analyse results and inform planning.

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What's included in the pack?

This pack includes:

Baseline SPaG (GPS) Assessments for Year 6.
Tracking spreadsheet to help identify gaps in knowledge with answers included.

Year 5 National Curriculum Objectives

Writing – Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation

(5G1.6) Indicating degrees of possibility using adverbs [for example, perhaps, surely]

(5G3.1a) Relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that, or an omitted relative pronoun

(5G4.1c) Indicating degrees of possibility using modal verbs [for example, might, should, will, must]

(5G5.6a) Use of commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity

(5G5.9) Brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis

(5G6.2) Verb prefixes [for example, dis–, de–, mis–, over– and re–]

(5G6.3) Converting nouns or adjectives into verbs using suffixes [for example, –ate; –ise; –ify]

Devices to build cohesion within a paragraph [for example, then, after that, this, firstly]

Link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time [for example, later], place [for example, nearby] and number [for example, secondly] or tense choices [for example, he had seen her before]

Terminology for pupils:

(5G1.5) cohesion

(5G1.5b) relative pronoun

(5G3.1a) relative clause

(5G4.1c) modal verb

(5G5.6a) ambiguity

(5G5.9) parenthesis

(5G5.9) bracket

(5G5.9) dash

Punctuation to indicate direct speech

Subjunctive form

Passive voice