Year 2 Assessments
March 8th 2016
Overview
 Whilst the children will be tested on spelling, grammar,
punctuation, reading, arithmetic and mathematical reasoning,
their final end of year assessment will be based on teacher
assessment against the age expectations set out in the
National Curriculum
 We will ensure that the children will have regular
opportunities to practise test questions to help them to
prepare
Reading
 To be assessed as ‘working at expected standard’ children should:
 read accurately most words of two or more syllables
 read most words containing common suffixes
 read most common exception words
 sound out most unfamiliar words accurately, without undue
hesitation
 In a familiar book that they can already read accurately and
fluently, the pupil can
 check it makes sense to them
 answer questions and make some inferences on the basis of what is
being said or done
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
 Word level key objectives
 formation of nouns using suffixes such as – ness, -er and by
compounding e.g blackboard
 formation of adjectives using suffixes such as –ful, -less
 use of suffixes – er –est in adjectives and the use of –ly in
standard English to turn adjectives into adverbs
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
 Sentence Level (children need to apply the
following essential key skills across a range of
genres & subjects)
 Subordination (using when, if, that, because) and coordination (using or, and, but)
 Expanded noun phrases for description and specification (the
blue butterfly, plain flour)
 How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its
function as a statement, question, exclamation or command.
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
 Text Level
 Correct choice and consistent use of present tense and past
tense throughout writing.
 Use of progressive forms of verbs in the present and past
tense to mark actions in progress (for example – she is
drumming, he was shouting)
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
 Punctuation
 Use of capital letters, full stops, question marks to demarcate
sentences (competently & consistently across a range of pieces & a
range of genres)
 Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling and to
mark singular possession in nouns (the girl’s name)
 Terminology for pupils – noun, noun phrase, statement, question,
exclamation, command, compound, suffix, adjective, adverb, verb,
tense (past and present), apostrophe and comma
 Commas to separate items in a list (within a sentence with an ‘and’
at the end)
Writing
 Using sentences in different forms in their writing – statements,
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questions, exclamations and commands
Segmenting spoken words into phonemes (sounds) and
representing these by graphemes (letters), spelling many correctly
Spelling many common exception words (list sent home)
Spelling some words in contracted forms
Using the diagonal and horizontal strokes needed to join letters in
some of their writing- neat & accurate letter formation is key
Using spacing between words that reflects the size of the letters
Maths
 Children will sit two papers
 Paper 1 is for arithmetic lasting about 20 minutes. It covers
calculation methods for all operations
 Paper 2 covers problem solving, reasoning and mathematical
fluency and lasts about 35 minutes
 Pupils will require calculation skills and the questions will be
varied including multiple choice, matching true/false,
completing a chart or table or drawing a shape. Some
questions will also require the pupils to show or explain their
working out.
In Maths children must….
 Partition 2 digit numbers
 Add 2 two digit numbers within 100
 Use estimation to check answers
 Subtract mentally a 2 digit number from another 2 digit
number
 Recognise inverse relationships to help work out missing
numbers
 Recall and use the multiplication and division facts for the 2,
5 and 10 tables
In Maths children must….
 Identify
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1 1 1 3
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4 3 2 4
and know that all parts must be equal parts
of the whole
Use different coins to make the same amount
Read scales in divisions of ones, twos, fives and tens
Read the time on a clock to the nearest 5 minutes
Describe properties of 2D and 3D shapes
Examples of arithmetic questions..
 89 + 10=
 15 + 3 + 3=
 39 – 8=
 50 - __ = 30
 3 x 3=
 35 divided by 5?
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1
4
of 20=
 65 + ___ =93
Examples of reasoning questions..
 Tick three coins to show how Amy can make 90p
 Tick four coins to show another way to make 90p
 Amy plants 4 rows of carrots. There are 3 carrots in each
row. A rabbit eats 2 carrots. How many carrots are left?
Example of SPAG questions
 Tick the sentence which is a statement.
What an interesting painting!
Can you collect the crayons, please?
James washed the paintbrushes.
Check that your tables are clean.
 Circle three nouns in the sentence below
A whale has an enormous heart that can weigh as much as a
small car.
After the assessments
 The pupils assessments will be moderated within school and
then with other schools
 Parents will be informed of the outcomes in the Summer
Term, we are hoping that this will coincide with their end of
year reports
 Writing will be reported as a Teacher Assessment statement
 The scaled scores for reading & maths will be converted to
Teacher Assessment statements;
 Foundations for the Expected Standard
 Working Towards the Expected Standard
 Working at the Expected Standard
 Working at Greater Depth within the Expected Standard
Thank you for coming
Any questions?