Can anyone tell me what this year's KS2 Sats reading test was about?

[Runoutofideas]

Hi,
I'm doing an online teaching assistant course, and am currently tackling a literacy assignment which is concerned with National Testing. I have already included the theory of what the tests should contain but I'd like to provide an example of the actual content. If anyone can help me I'd be very grateful. Thanks.

[ellingwoman]

According to dd3 it was Dear Norman and the Earthship. I don't know if this is an extract from a book or a specially written piece.
HTH

[Runoutofideas]

Thanks. Googling it doesn't appear to come up with anything so it was probably specifically written. If anyone knows if it's possible to find this somewhere online, I'd love to hear from you. Thanks for your help.

[singersgirl]

There were two passages/bits to comprehend, as far as I can gather from DS1. One, Dear Norman, was a series of letters between a boy who'd run away from home to live in a tree in his garden (I think) and his parents/sister etc. The other was a factual piece on the Earthship which I know nothing about but apparently exists.

[Feenie]

You won't find 2009's paper online anywhere yet, too recent, but here's a link for all the other years: here

[RustyBear]

The Earthship is an Eco friendly house built from old tyres into the side of a hill, with solar heating & various other ecological features. The children had a brochure advertising it & had to answer questions about the house & the brochure. The theme of the paper was Homes & the other piece of writing was a series of letters written to a boy called Norman who had moved out of his home into a tree house after an argument with his parents. You didn't see Norman's letters but one of the questions was asking how we knew he'd written back & another asked the children to write an imagined reply to one of the letters. Another question asked them to compare the two genres and tick features of each in a list.

[Runoutofideas]

Great - that's just what I needed. Thanks everyone.