Pupil-friendly assessments for the new National Curriculum
Year 5 – Reading, Writing and Maths
Each assessment covers the age-appropriate objectives for reading, writing and mathematics, as set down in the new National Curriculum.
Reading Assessment elements:
- Reading comprehension test
- A review of the range of reading over the past year
Objectives covered:
- Understand the meaning of words in context
- Draw inferences
- Justify inferences e.g. about motives
- Make reasoned predictions
- Identify the main idea
- Summarise ideas
- Identify how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning
- Retrieve and record information
- Increase their familiarity with a wide range of books
- Identify themes and connections
- Discuss words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination
Writing Assessment elements:
- Extended writing
- Grammar and punctuation
- Spelling
- A review of the range of writing over the past year
Objectives covered:
- Organise paragraphs around a theme
- Demarcate sentences correctly
- Use capital letters correctly
- Use commas correctly
- Extend the range of sentences with more than one clause, including relative clauses
- Choose standard verbs
- Use expanded noun phrases
- Use fronted adverbials correctly
- Punctuate direct speech correctly
- Use prefixes and suffixes
- Increase the legibility, consistency and quality of their handwriting
- A range of high-frequency spellings drawn from the NC Year 5 and 6 Spelling appendix and lists
Mathematics Assessment elements:
- Arithmetic
- Reasoning
Objectives covered:
- Number and place value
- Addition and subtraction
- Multiplication and division
- Fractions and decimals
- Measurement
- Geometry – properties of shapes
- Geometry – position and direction
- Statistics
