How do schools teach punctuation and grammar? Do they?

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Sorry for slightly odd question, but ds1 (11) just got his sats results back.
All in all he is very pleased with them - he has struggled historically with literacy and was dx severly dyslexic in year 4 - but is very disappointed with his spag results :(
I am trying to get him to look in the bright side - he got a level 5 for reading!!
Level 5s and 4s for all other subjects!
But a 3 for spag.
He felt he had done well, and I think it's come as a shock to him.
Anyway...my question is what can I do to help him over the summer?
I have downloaded the sats papers so I can see exactly what his issues are - he has already done the spelling one and got 15/20 is I think the issue must be p and g.
I have also ordered the CGP spag workbook.
Should I be worried?
What will school do on his return in year 7?
Thanks x

the window for a level 4 on the spag test was exceptionally narrow and if you look on the TES website there are lots of teachers saying all the kids in their class got either a level 3 or a level 5. most are blaming the spelling and it was a big percentage of the mark.
please reassure him that's it not just him.

Thank you very much.
He really thought he had done well and I am worried this will knock his already fragile confidence.

I've ordered the CGP SaPG book too. Mine is older, but becuase he is bilingual and we don't live in an English speaking country... have to keep working him that bit harder on spelling.

I'm also plonking him on freerice for vocab, only "seeing" rather than spelling words, but becuase they aren't buried in a block of text it might focus him a bit on word formation as well as widening his vocab. Freerice again for grammar becuase quite a lot of the low level questions are about punctuation.

I used to use spellingcity, worth a try if it's still free.

Also worth a trawl through TES to see if they have anything handy.

One trick that has really helped is to turn off the auto underline thingiemabob on MS word and go through homework having him trying to spot errors, punc. and spelling, unaided and correct by himself before checking with the spell/grammar checker, looking at what was missed first go around, switching off again and having another go at correcting by himself before letting MS word do its stuff. We've done that for all his howework this year and the difference has been amazing.

Hi mammuzza.
I have used CGP workbooks before and I really rate them.

I like CGP too. I can read reams of explanations about programmes of study, levels etc... and be no clearer on what that means in concrete terms. Whereas with CGP I can actually see what's required and then I can figure out where DS needs more work.

I use the other stuff to switch things around so he doesn't get bored. And turning off the spelling/grammar checker underlining was becuase I think he started to rely on it and stopped thinking for himself a bit.

Be careful with freerice.... it's addictive. If it hadn't just crashed my browser I'd still be on it

Well, I am now thoroughly confused.
Ds did the short answer paper this morning and scored 33 - add the 15 from yesterday and that's 47/70 isn't it?
Which is a level 4?
I guess he just didn't do as well on the day....?

Ha!
48/70 even!