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STANDARDISED ASSESSMENTS
Shine: GPS
Kate Ruttle, Dee Reid
Shine: GPS is designed to give targeted support to learners aged
5-11 who need an extra boost answering grammar, punctuation and
spelling questions.
a Key GPS skills are organised into three Strands for intervention focus:
Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling and Vocabulary. Each Strand
consists of relevant content domains from the National Curriculum
Programme of Study for English.
a Two texts (extracts from Reading Skills Learning Sequences) allow for
modelled responses and supported independent practice. The first
text extract supports online modelling responses software.
Grammar, Caiman and Fire
3. Which sentence is an exclamation?
Tick (ü) one.
£
£
£
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That is a good smell
What smells so good
What a good smell that is
What makes that smell
Take a closer look
Retrieval, Fiction 3
4. Circle the conjunction in the sentence below.
The caiman didn’t eat his food at the river but always took it back to his cave.
5. Write the number of the box that shows where the word after is missing.
1
2
3
4
Iwa always went back to his cave he finished hunting.
Write the box number here. __________
Authors Kate Ruttle and Dee Reid discuss the roles of teachers and TAs
in delivering Shine: Reading Skills and GPS interventions and explore
the content in a Learning Sequence.
6. Circle the correct conjunction to join the two clauses in this sentence.
because
if
but
so
The other animals were curious _______________________ they followed Iwa back to
his cave.
7. Write the best conjunction to join the clauses in each of the sentences below.
Use each conjunction once.
and
but
because
Iwa spent his days hunting in the river _______________________ he spent his
evenings in his cave.
He stayed in his cave _______________________ he didn’t want the other animals to
see what he was doing.
He said he was eating fish _______________________ it didn’t smell like the fish the
other animals ate.
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Modelled Responses
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Year 3 (Summer), Grammar, Caiman and Fire
Answer the questions
If using the online modelling responses software, remember to copy and paste textual evidence for
your answer.
Steps
Check pupils’ understanding
Change the order of words to make this statement into a question.
Do not add any new words.
Remember to think about punctuation.
The caiman was a good hunter.
Answer
and
marks
1
(G2.2)
Ask pupils to tell their partner about the
kinds of words that can begin a
question. Questions begin with a verb,
e.g. can, is, will, does; or a wh word,
such as who, what, where, why, etc.
In pairs, ask pupils to write the words in
the sentence on separate pieces of
paper, then organise the pieces of paper
to make a question. Remind them that
they cannot introduce any new words.
Support
Retrieval, Fiction 3
Was the caiman a good hunter?
(1 mark. Punctuation must be accurate for the mark to be awarded.)
Pupils know about the structure and
purpose of questions. Their answer might
include that a question:
• asks something and expects an answer
• begins with a verb (can, is, will, does),
or a wh word (who, what, where, why,
etc.)
• ends with a question mark.
Ask pairs to discuss with another pair
the sentence they made.
Write a command using only these words.
Remember to use punctuation.
with
your
share
food
us
Share your food with us.
(1 mark. Punctuation must be accurate for the mark to be awarded.)
Support
2
(G2.3)
Answer
and
marks
Remind pupils to think about
punctuation. Ask them how questions
are punctuated and where the
punctuation would be added in their
new sentence (a question mark would
be added to the end of the question).
Ask pupils to tell their partner about
the kinds of words that can begin a
command. Commands generally begin
with a ‘bossy’ verb, e.g. put, help, do,
try; or a sequencing word such as next
or then.
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Pupils know about the structure and
purpose of commands. Their answer might
include that a command:
• is also called an instruction because it
tells someone what to do
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