Albion's Dream

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Texts are rich and challenging so that children are accustomed to reading at the level of the SATs.

I will not give it too you! I ran away as fast as I could with the box in my hand. Em Sharp was shouting behind me, I peered over my shoulder and saw that she had fallen over. I finally came to a stop and took 3 big deep breaths while I was looking for a place to hide, my heart was beating really fast and I was sweating with nerves.Suddenly, I heard Em Sharp drawing closer to the door. I could feel my heart racing as she bellowed, '' Edward what are you doing in there you have been told many times not to enter this forbidden room.'' Her voice becoming clearer as she entered the room. Soon she noticed the strange box in my arms as I was trying my best to cover it. She hesitated as she tried to figure out what it was. she soon recognised it,'' GIVE ME THAT BOX RIGHT NOW IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU IT IS VERY DANGEROUS!'' She screamed. I new she had no right to own this box it was mine and mine forever. This year’s KS2 reading SAT contained an information text: The Giant Panda Bear; a poem: Grannie; and a fictional extract: Albion’s Dream. As a specially commissioned piece, The Giant Panda Bear contained several features we would expect in information writing aimed at children including: clearly signposted sections, supportive illustrations and graphic design features relevant to the content matter. Certainly the text included frequent reference to numerical facts, which may have been distracting for some pupils, e.g. ‘ An adult can grow up to 1.5 metres and weigh up to 150 kilograms,’ and ‘ Cubs stay with their mother for two to three years, reach maturity at five to seven years and live in the wild for about 25 years.’ And there were also some interesting vocabulary choices that may not have been fully recognised by all readers, e.g. ‘ razor-like claws’, ‘ densely populated’, ‘ bamboo supplies are diminishing’. But on the whole, this first text appeared reasonably accessible. Please don't die Edward, I can't loose you, and your mother!" It was my dad's voice. I opened my eyes. "D-dad? Is this heaven? Am I dead?" My dad looked so relieved, and gave me such a tight hug.

As we do not yet know how well children performed in this item, I would hope that although the layout of the question was different, many year 6 readers will have coped with this style of question. Thus, the "pass mark" for children taking the 2018 KS2 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling SATs was 38/70 or 54.3%. I stood rooted to the spot. What was so special about the box that Em Sharp wanted it so badly? She stared at me, unblinking and vicious. I had never seen Em so angry. But she also looked scared. I could see it in her eyes. My instinct was telling me to give it her but I was too curious to see what was in it.In the 2017 KS2 reading test, both 3-mark questions appeared in the third tier. This year, we also saw this replicated. At Crewe in the second half Alex (Frutos) disappeared, Harty ( Gary Hart) had a poor game. We cannot have that, it has got to be sustained. So what was the make-up of the 2018 KS2 reading test? Did it mirror some of the trends that we have identified over the last few years since the new suite of tests were presented to us? Here is a break-down of how the content domains were tested across the three extracts: