Super Reading

It seems that this year's KS2 Reading SAT will be a whistle stop tour through various texts in an hour. No savouring a piece of excellent prose or reflecting upon the delights of a well executed simile, it's skim reading time!

To prepare my children for this, I decided to use a range of text excerpts which they read in class, I gave them a time limit of 5 minutes and they then had to summarise the text in 3 sentences. This helped them to find the main points of the text, explain themselves succinctly and experience a range of texts over a short space of time.

The next step, would be to use the excellent classtools.net http://www.classtools.net/twister/

Fake Tweet application to write a summary of the text in the 140 characters permitted. My children enjoyed it and it was far more bearable than yet another practice test.