How can I help my daughter prepare for her 11 plus? For English specifically?

[Advice5]

Hi, can anyone advise me on what I can do to help my daughter with her 11 plus preparation please.. specifically for English please as i think she could do with some more work on that. Any advice and things we could do to help her would be appreciated. Many thanks

What year is she in? What region / which school(s)? A lot depends on the specifics of the test she will be sitting.

Cgp do 11+ preparation books on different subjects, available on Amazon etc

@Advice5

For grammar schools

Independents

For grammar school

Its GL assessment

link on my original post

https://www.11plusguide.com/11-plus-papers-books/free-11-plus-papers/free-sample-11-plus-english-papers/#grammarschools

Thank you I will look into this. Is this website more fot practice papers?

Hi, first thing I would do is find out from the specific grammar schools what they will be testing. Don’t just ask your current school) call admissions at the schools you are applying to and ask them. They could be using a platform like QUEST for example…. Generally, it will be different based on Sage 1 and Stage 2 and will cover some or all of the following: VR, comprehension, inference, punctuation and grammar etc via multiple choice - you can use Atom for this but for grammar schools this could be too easy….is she already using this platform….and dinner and customise it for her schools or top independent girls schools so you get the tougher questions….once this is easy you have to step it up…where is she now? When are her exams? In stage 2 she has to be strong at continue the story (same tense/tone/context has to make sense), or a discursive piece that has to have an argument for both sides….i hope this is helpful…..vocab is paramount to nailing the VR!

Which areas do you think she needs more help in? Comprehension or spag? For the former encourage a love of reading as well as teach her to become observant about her surroundings, discuss what she’s reading and why she likes/dislikes the story. Ask her about her friends - what they’ve been talking about at school and discuss what she could infer from them. These may seem separate from the exam but it will train her mind to think about what she’s seeing, hearing as well as reading.

With spag there are plenty of workbooks out there so perhaps do it little and often

@GrammarSchoolJourney does she do the working out for multi step questions? If not, when correcting, could she show you how she did the question? As you say the issue could be any one of those you mentioned.

Personally I let mine work through a paper, mark it, and watch how she does the corrections - it’s usually enough to figure out where she went wrong as she would say “ah! I did the sum wrong” or “didn’t read that bit”. Many are simple careless mistakes which can be very common with kids their age though.