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KS2 SATS SPAG

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KittyintheCity · 05/03/2018 20:22

We have Year 6 SATS coming up, but DD is struggling with SPAG. What are the best books / websites for her to get some decent practice. There are so many out there, I would like personal recommendations of ones that have worked, if possible. Thank you

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spanieleyes · 05/03/2018 20:30

The CGP series are quite good, the study books and the practice books. They are not too expensive either!
www.amazon.co.uk/KS2-English-Grammar-Punctuation-Spelling/dp/1847621651/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=cgp+grammar+punctuation+and+spelling+year+6&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1520281715&sr=8-4

www.amazon.co.uk/KS2-English-Targeted-Question-Book/dp/1782941347/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=cgp+grammar+punctuation+and+spelling+year+6&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1520281715&sr=8-1

savoyCabbage · 05/03/2018 20:32

We have the CPG ones too, sent home from school. My dd is not a lover of school but she quite happily does her four pages a night.

sparepantsandtoothbrush · 06/03/2018 09:32

DD's school use the CPG ones too but they're just tests rather than explaining the nonsense they're supposed to know. The WH Smith books are meant to be good.

FWIW my son is in y8, learnt all this SPaG for his y6 sats and passed with almost top marks. Hes barely used any of it since starting secondary and doesn't have a clue what DD is talking about when she asks him about it

Julraj · 06/03/2018 10:37

The CGP books are very good but they only cover the basic requirements. I know OP is probably only looking for that but I'd massively recommend these two books from Rising Stars for the more challenging topics...

www.examninja.co.uk/KS2-Achieve-100-Plus-SPaG-Practice-Book

www.examninja.co.uk/KS2-Achieve-100-Plus-SPaG-Revision-Guide

TeenTimesTwo · 06/03/2018 11:30

I am going to raised a question.

If it is the more 'esoteric' aspects of grammar that are the problem, why do you care?

My DD (now y8) would have been far better off in y6 doing more core literacy rather than trying and failing to learn about fronted adverbials and whether a conjunction is coordinating or subordinating.

user789653241 · 06/03/2018 15:38

Teen, I don't think those grammar lessons are pointless at all. My ds's writing has improved a lot since they started to learn to write using all those grammar. Writing is core literacy imo.

TeenTimesTwo · 06/03/2018 15:59

I guess it depends on where they are at the time.

For my DD, the harder stuff which apparently the school 'had' to teach just went way over her head. It was a waste of everyone's effort.

I had no issue with the basic grammar stuff. But teaching what would have been old Level 5 grammar to a child at Level 3 didn't really help.

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