StarterHow many phrases can you think of that start with:

SAT

For example: Saturate

Saturday

ReadingKS3 SATs Preparation

Learning ObjectivesTo become familiar with the vocabulary of exam

questions.

To assess your own work to help you improve.

Your SATs!You will take SATs exams in English, Maths and Science.

For English, you will take two papers:

Reading Paper

1 hour 15

Writing Paper

1 hour 15

What do these words mean?

The exam contains several question words that you may not have come across before.

Write down the words on the next slide and work out what they could mean in an exam question.

Identify

How

Impression

Comment

Explain

Deduce

SupportSuggest

Viewpoint

What

Infer

Effective

Example

Word Meaning

Example

Identify

Comment

Viewpoint

Explain

Support

Impression

Suggest

How

What

Deduce

Infer

Effective

Match the words to

their definitions!

Word Meaning

Example To find evidence to back up your answer.

Identify To spot

Comment To give your view about something

Viewpoint To check the points the person is writing about

Explain To given reasons for your answer

Support To use evidence to back up your answer

Impression The ideas you get from reading something

Suggest The ideas you get from reading something

How Go into detail about the way something is done

What Identify the ideas you are reading about

Deduce Solve the problem, work it out

Infer To read between the lines

Effective Does it do the job well.

Give students a jumbled

version

Word Meaning

Example To find evidence to back up your answer.

Identify To spot

Comment To give your view about something

Viewpoint To check the points the person is writing about

Explain To given reasons for your answer

Support To use evidence to back up your answer

Impression The ideas you get from reading something

Suggest The ideas you get from reading something

How Go into detail about the way something is done

What Identify the ideas you are reading about

Deduce Solve the problem, work it out

Infer To read between the lines

Effective Does it do the job well.

Exam PracticeYou will now see a past exam paper.

Use the 2007 paper (here: http://www.sats-papers.co.uk/sats-papers-ks3.php)

Transformed – Questions 1-5

Read ‘Transformed’

Have a go at questions 1-3.

Have a go at question 4.

What do you need to do here? –

Show how tension is created by talking about the language used.

Question 4 - AnswerHe builds up a sense of Gregor’s increasing desperation as he’s trying to get out of bed and then suddenly there’s a knock at the door. ‘Gregor, it’s nearly quarter to seven. Haven’t you got a train to catch?’ He doesn’t tell her the story, but answers ‘yes, yes, I’m nearly ready.’

Then he tries to get out of bed, but fails. ‘But then after a repetition of the same efforts, he lay in the same position.’ He also makes himself have a time to get out of bed ‘Before it strikes a quarter past seven I must be out of this bed, without fail.’ This makes a sense of desperation as he is trying with all his might to get out of bed!

How many marks for

this answer?

3

Question 4 - AnswerIt builds up desperation because it starts with you knowing he really wants to tell his mother, ‘Gregor really wanted to explain everything’ and then when he speaks he finds out that his voice has changed, and he is shocked.

Then in the next paragraph it tells you that he has to get out of bed. To start off with you think he’ll be able to manage it as it says ‘to get rid of the quilt was quite easy’. But then it tells you how difficult it is to get out of bed because he is so broad, and it says ‘he had only the numerous little legs which never stopped waving in all directions.’

In the next paragraph, you can tell Gregor is getting more angry; ‘Finally, almost wild with annoyance’ and ‘thrust out recklessly’ show this. Then after desperately trying, it tells you Gregor is ‘sighing deeply’ which shows he is about to give up.

On the last line he begins to worry about his family, ‘would cause anxiety, if not terror, to his family’ shows this. But he knows he has to try, and the last part ‘Still, he must take the risk’ leaves you wondering what will happen.

How many marks for

this answer?

5

Question 4 - AnswerIt builds up desperation because it starts with you knowing he really wants to tell his mother, ‘Gregor really wanted to explain everything’ and then when he speaks he finds out that his voice has changed, and he is shocked.

Then in the next paragraph it tells you that he has to get out of bed. To start off with you think he’ll be able to manage it as it says ‘to get rid of the quilt was quite easy’. But then it tells you how difficult it is to get out of bed because he is so broad, and it says ‘he had only the numerous little legs which never stopped waving in all directions.’

In the next paragraph, you can tell Gregor is getting more angry; ‘Finally, almost wild with annoyance’ and ‘thrust out recklessly’ show this. Then after desperately trying, it tells you Gregor is ‘sighing deeply’ which shows he is about to give up.

On the last line he begins to worry about his family, ‘would cause anxiety, if not terror, to his family’ shows this. But he knows he has to try, and the last part ‘Still, he must take the risk’ leaves you wondering what will happen.

How many marks for

this answer?

Question 4 - AnswerIt builds up desperation because it starts with you knowing he really wants to tell his mother, ‘Gregor really wanted to explain everything’ and then when he speaks he finds out that his voice has changed, and he is shocked. This shows he is desperate.

Then in the next paragraph it tells you that he has to get out of bed. To start off with you think he’ll be able to manage it as it says ‘to get rid of the quilt was quite easy’. But then it tells you how difficult it is to get out of bed because he is so broad, and it says ‘he had only the numerous little legs which never stopped waving in all directions.’

In the next paragraph, you can tell Gregor is getting more angry; ‘Finally, almost wild with annoyance’ and ‘thrust out recklessly’ show this. Then after desperately trying, it tells you Gregor is ‘sighing deeply’ which shows he is about to give up.

On the last line he begins to worry about his family, ‘would cause anxiety, if not terror, to his family’ shows this. But he knows he has to try, and the last part ‘Still, he must take the risk’ leaves you wondering what will happen.

How many marks for

this answer?

Question 5Have a go at question 5.

Do you need to use quotations?

Many people have different views on stories. While some people think it would be quite funny to be turned into an insect other people think it would be horrifying because they have important meetings and things to attend to. So there are two views.

The story is quite horrifying because he just randomly turned into a bug overnight, after a night of ‘uneasy dreams’. Being a bug must be different and he also then is stuck on his back unable to move.

But for the same reasons it’s also quite funny. Turning into a bug overnight is weird and bizarre and his legs ‘waving about helplessly’ creates a funny image.

How many marks for

these answers? 0

3

The man who loved insects

Read The man who loved insects.

Have a go at questions 6 – 10.

You have 21 minutes.

Hint: for 10, use 3 PEE-L.6 Paragraphs

Answers to Question 10It shows that you should admire Jan Swammerdam because he knew so much, he had done what no other man had done before, dissecting the caterpillar in public and using so much description to show what he saw on the insect, ‘shooting like sunbeams’ and the wing of a moth as ‘delicate as the finest muslin’.

How many

marks for these

answers?

1

Answers to Question 10The writer suggests Swammerdam was clever. He starts with, ‘for thousands of years, people believed…’. This shows that Swammerdam was the first person to realise facts about insects that no one else knew. He emphasises how clever by the adjective ‘thousands’: a long, long time.

The writer also says Swammerdam was determined because he ‘annoyed his father’. The writer clearly thinks that Swammerdam was brave and determined because children are supposed to do what they’re told.

How many marks for

these answers?

5

Answers to Question 10The writer suggests Swammerdam was clever. He starts with, ‘for thousands of years, people believed…’. This shows that Swammerdam was the first person to realise facts about insects that no one else knew. He emphasises how clever by the adjective ‘thousands’: a long, long time.

The writer also says Swammerdam was determined because he ‘annoyed his father’. The writer clearly thinks that Swammerdam was brave and determined because children are supposed to do what they’re told, but Swammerdam does not.

How many marks for

these answers?

5

What’s really going on in a teenager’s brain?

Read the text. Have a go at questions 11 – 17.

You have 30 minutes.

Using the mark scheme, mark your answers to questions 12, 15a and 15b.

Last minute advice:Attempt ALL questions: it is a waste to miss out answers. If you are not sure, do the following:

- Read the text again

- Read the question twice and look for key words

- Imagine you are answering the question for the first time – do your answers match?

- Make any corrections.

Plenary Write down one thing you’ve learnt today.

Write down one question you have.