This Year 6 End of Year GPS Assessment helps identify progress by assessing against each of the Year 6 National Curriculum Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling objectives. The Teacher Objectives Sheet allows you to identify progress as well as gaps in pupils' knowledge.
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This pack includes:
Writing – Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation
Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by:
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G4.4) Using passive verbs to affect the presentation of information in a sentence
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G7.4) Recognising vocabulary and structures that is appropriate for formal speech and writing, including subjunctive forms
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G5.10) Using colons to mark boundaries between independent clauses
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G5.11) Using semi-colons to mark boundaries between independent clauses
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G5.12) Using dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G5.13) Using hyphens to avoid ambiguity
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G5.14) Punctuating bullet points consistently
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G5.10) Using a colon to introduce a list
English Appendix 2 guidance:
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G4.3) Recognising subjunctive forms
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G4.4) Use of the passive to affect the presentation of information in a sentence [for example, I broke the window in the greenhouse versus The window in the greenhouse was broken (by me)]
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G6.1) How words are related by meaning as synonyms and antonyms [for example, big, large, little]
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G7.2) The difference between vocabulary typical of informal speech and vocabulary appropriate for formal speech and writing [for example, find out – discover; ask for – request; go in – enter]
Linking ideas across paragraphs using a wider range of cohesive devices: repetition of a word or phrase, grammatical connections [for example, the use of adverbials such as on the other hand, in contrast, or as a consequence], and ellipsis
Layout devices [for example, headings, sub-headings, columns, bullets, or tables, to structure text]
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G5.10) Use of the colon to mark the boundary between independent clauses
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G5.11) Use of the semi-colon to mark the boundary between independent clauses [for example, It’s raining; I’m fed up]
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G5.12) Use of the dash to mark the boundary between independent clauses
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G5.13) How hyphens can be used to avoid ambiguity [for example, man eating shark versus man-eating shark, or recover versus re-cover]
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G5.14) Punctuation of bullet points to list information
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G5.10) Use of the colon to introduce a list
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G5.11) Use of semi-colons within lists
Terminology for pupils:
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G1.9) subject
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G1.9) object
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G4.4) active
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G4.4) passive
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G5.10) colon
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G5.11) semi-colon
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G5.13) hyphen
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G5.14) bullet points
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G6.1) synonym
Year 5 and 6 English: (6G6.1) antonym
ellipsis
* ellipsis
*This objective is not covered in the end of year assessment
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