Year 9 English SATs

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Year 9English SATs

• How to achieve Level 5 and Level 6

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Reading Level 5 and Level 6
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The Reading Paper

• A Reading Booklet containing three extracts and a
  set of questions on each
• Time Limit 1 hour and 15 minutes
• (including 15 minutes reading time)
• Marks 32

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• Top Tips
• Levels 5 and 6
• on the Reading Paper
• Read all the extracts in the booklet carefully
  during the reading time
• Highlight key words which are important in the
  extract
• Write your own comments and ideas, rather than
  copying or describing what you have read
• Understand why the writer has written what they
  have and what their opinions are on the topic
• For longer answers, remember to use Point,
  Evidence and Explanation
• Use quotations and examples from the writing and
  link them to your own comments
• Remember to answer all the questions

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• What should I be thinking about when I am
  reading a text?
• How should I read this text? Which reading
  strategies should I use?
• What kind of text is this? Fiction?
  Non-fiction? Literary? Non-literary?
  Contemporary? Pre-1900?
• What is the writers purpose? Why has this
  text been written? What is it trying to do?
• Who is the text written for? Who is the
  intended audience or reader? How do I know?
• Has the writer used any interesting feature at
• Word level (for example, emotive language,
  technical vocabulary, alliteration)?
• Sentence level (for example, long or short
  sentences, complex sentences, active or passive
  voice, forts or third person narration, tense)?
• text level (for example, how is the text
  organised and set out on the page)?
• What is the effect of the text on the reader?
  How has the writer achieved that effect?