Are you smarter than an 11 year old? How many of these could you spell?

[RustyBear]

large
stunning
remarkable
collapsed
engulfed
descent
enormous
surrounded
protected
availabi lity
population
remain
various
scorching
several
traditionally
distinctive
carrying
unique
magical

These are the words from the Year 6 SATs spelling test today - I bet some of them would give a few of us trouble....

alla ov dem

all of them, of course!

All of them, obviously. Why would any adult have trouble with those words?

Just to clarify - I can actually spell all of them!

Also, can spell disappeared, which my ds has been having trouble with!

well, I'd like to think they could, MBM, but googling 'availibility' gives over 800,000 results (and there are 37 instances of it on MN.)

Am sure most adults can spell all of them.

But if you had put definite on that list, it would scupper half the adult population of this country.

I thought the spelling test was quite reasonable but didn't like the long writing test

my poor lad only managed to spell 2 of them correctly.

Was the long writing something about trainers?

Yes it was a report on trainers (I think it was meant to inspire boys )

yesssss, well my boy wasn't inspired, more bewildered
He doesn't have any trainers. Well, not the sort anyone would rhapsodise over...

Some of our Y6 raced off to tell the science teacher they had managed to include "friction" in their reports

if i hear one more mention of hte word engulfed today....

Our Year 6 teachers were fairly optimistic about the long writing - they've done quite a lot of reports with the children and there was a lot of help given with suggested structure in the instructions. The short writing test wasn't too bad either - they had to give a description of a busy place.

Reading task tomorrow, then on to Maths.

what do theyhave to do for the reading task?

They have 15 minutes to read a piece of text, but they are not allowed to look at the questions during that time.

After that they have 45 minutes to answer the questions - they are allowed to refer back to the text, they don't have to remember it.

It's a comprehension test really rather than just reading - they have to answer questions such as 'Why did character X do this' or 'What words does the author use to show Y'

Yes. But I wouldn't put a space in availability

I didn't! Well, I tried not to....
I saw on Preview that it looked like there was a space there & tried to delete it, but it wouldn't delete.

All of them.

But how many children, teens or adults of any age know the difference between "their" and "there" and "its" and "it's" and "parents", "parent's" and "parents'"??

These are the most common spelling errors, and they are everywhere, including advertisements and school letters.

I get really annoyed with there, their and they're from people who should know better

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I think they're long but quite easy.

I think the spellings are hard for most year 6s. I can spell those words, but then, I am an English teacher.

rusty!

Help me and ds out - today's reading one. What was humourous about the mum's letter to the boy in the tree? Ds says he couldn't answer it as he found none of it amusing at all. And I am now intrigued