KS2 SATS Level 6 reading
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 3:59 pm
Lovely people on the forum, I seek you input again.
DD did a Level 6 practice SAT in November and missed it by 1 mark. From what I gathered from her and others:
1) She said she ran out of time. She did the big(lot of explanation) questions before the easy ones so that once she is done with them she can just zoom through the smaller ones. This technique did not work and she should have done the other way round.
2) This was the first Reading paper she ever did apart from the multiple choice comprehension tests for 11+. We have never read any book to her nor asked any questions about the books she read. She is completely unaware of the AF objectives, even I was until last week, and probably does not know how to tackle various questions.
3) Looking in some forums I learnt that Level 6 Reading is very hard to achieve as compared to Maths. May be because it needs lot of maturity, working closely with the marking scheme and the paper is time constrained. Is this true ?
Last week I got the CGP KS2 Reading workbooks and it knocked me off. I was probably able to answer 10% of the questions. I thought of reading these books and questions/answers together with DD one or two times and then let her write them on her own. Has anyone used these books? Are they worth continuing? Are there any other books that will go through all the AF objectives and explain the concepts with sample question/answers? I remember Tutor master being mentioned on this forum. Is it any good?
ps.BTW DD is not stressed by this work. She finds it interesting. I noticed she can answer factual, inference and structure and layout questions correct most of the times. She can answer some of the Language type(figurative language) questions. Questions asking writer's purpose and it's effect on the reader, choice of language and it's effects on reader, explaining build up of some event are either new for her or slightly hard to put in words. She seems to be good at quoting from text, reasoning her answer and using PEEL technique (taught by school) though.
DD did a Level 6 practice SAT in November and missed it by 1 mark. From what I gathered from her and others:
1) She said she ran out of time. She did the big(lot of explanation) questions before the easy ones so that once she is done with them she can just zoom through the smaller ones. This technique did not work and she should have done the other way round.
2) This was the first Reading paper she ever did apart from the multiple choice comprehension tests for 11+. We have never read any book to her nor asked any questions about the books she read. She is completely unaware of the AF objectives, even I was until last week, and probably does not know how to tackle various questions.
3) Looking in some forums I learnt that Level 6 Reading is very hard to achieve as compared to Maths. May be because it needs lot of maturity, working closely with the marking scheme and the paper is time constrained. Is this true ?
Last week I got the CGP KS2 Reading workbooks and it knocked me off. I was probably able to answer 10% of the questions. I thought of reading these books and questions/answers together with DD one or two times and then let her write them on her own. Has anyone used these books? Are they worth continuing? Are there any other books that will go through all the AF objectives and explain the concepts with sample question/answers? I remember Tutor master being mentioned on this forum. Is it any good?
ps.BTW DD is not stressed by this work. She finds it interesting. I noticed she can answer factual, inference and structure and layout questions correct most of the times. She can answer some of the Language type(figurative language) questions. Questions asking writer's purpose and it's effect on the reader, choice of language and it's effects on reader, explaining build up of some event are either new for her or slightly hard to put in words. She seems to be good at quoting from text, reasoning her answer and using PEEL technique (taught by school) though.