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KS2 English SAT Buster: Reading Book 1 (for the New Curriculum)

Book Description

This CGP SAT Buster workbook is ideal for helping Year 6 pupils prepare for the Reading part of the Key Stage 2 English SATS - and it’s fully up-to-date for the new tests in 2016 and beyond! It includes four reading texts (non-fiction, fiction, biography and a newspaper article), with a wide range of questions that test all the key reading skills children will need for the tests. Book 2 (9781841461649) and Book 3 (9781841461656) are also available - answers for all three books can be found in a separate booklet (9781841464862).

Customer Reviews

       Absolutely spot on,
11 February 2017
Excellent.The book is structured around 4 different extracts, which cover a range of styles and each had a strong appeal for my 10 year old.The layout itself is informative: clearly signposting the areas that are now being examined in SATs comprehensions.The range of questions is very comprehensive, which really pushes number one son to read the text properly.The detailed answer booklet allows both parent and child to get a practical sense of what examiners are looking for; so you get to understand the difference between a one mark answer and an answer that will get you both marks. I found this particularly valuable.Overall I think the "CGP" series has now outstripped the "Bond" books in terms of the quality of explanation and usefulness as teaching aids. Really looking forward to making a start on Book 2.

       Covers all types of SATs reading questions,
28 April 2013
This workbook gives practice in answering fact retrieval questions, inference questions, structure and layout questions and writer's purpose questions. I have found that students who are at reading levels two and three have difficulty handling the materials, but can be guided through them and helped to learn how to answer these different types of questions. It is most common to find only fact retrieval questions in comprehension exercises, and this more thorough practice is highly useful in training readers to answer questions.

       Great for brushing up on revision,
18 March 2017
A nice little 40 page booklet that's not too expensive and helpful for kids to brush up on their revision and for parents to work out where you kids may need some extra help.

       Highly recommended resources to help children navigate the reading comprehension SATs papers,
29 March 2014
Would recommend this publication. It focuses on different reading comprehension skills. For example, one page of questions are purely fact retrieval; another page of questions are about structural features of the text another are about the author's use of language.

       Grammatical errors!,
17 November 2015
I really like the layout and structure of this book and the fact that it covers more than simple fact retrieval questions. However, bearing in mind the new KS2 curriculum with its emphasis on grammar, I would have thought that the grammatical errors in the fiction text (The Huddle) would have been corrected. I am sorry, I know it is common parlance, but 'he was stood' and 'he was sat there' are grammatically incorrect and we should not be teaching this to our children (rant over!)

       Good,
26 November 2017
Realy realy good the pakaging is realy niceAlso has good good resorces for key learning

       Useful texts,
2 June 2018
Useful texts and questions to aid Year 6 in preparation for SATs tests.

       great to teach strategies to pass the test,
15 June 2013
questions are organised into types and children can practice exactly what is required to gain marks in KS2 Sats. No so great to inspire a love of reading though