Year 6 SATs Grammar & Spelling Revision

Grammar Knowledge for SATs

The SATs GPS paper tests the full KS2 grammar curriculum in a timed 45-minute paper:

• Word classes and their grammatical functions: determiners, prepositions, pronouns
• Clause types: main, subordinate, relative; co-ordinating and subordinating conjunctions
• Active and passive voice; formal and informal register
• Modal verbs, subjunctive mood and the perfect tense

Punctuation

The GPS paper rewards children who can correctly identify and use a wide range of punctuation:

• Commas for lists, fronted adverbials and relative clauses
• Apostrophes for omission and singular/plural possession
• Inverted commas, colons, semi-colons, brackets and dashes
• Hyphens to avoid ambiguity; bullet points for lists

Spelling Strategies

Spelling accounts for a significant proportion of marks across the GPS papers:

• Learning and revising all statutory spellings from the Year 5/6 word list
• Applying morphological knowledge: prefixes (mis-, dis-, over-) and suffixes (-ation, -ous)
• Homophones and commonly confused words (e.g. affect/effect, their/there)
• Practising words that do not follow standard phonetic patterns

YearWise generates a varied set of curriculum-aligned questions every time — so your child has fresh material to practise. Sessions are short (10–30 questions), focused and available on any device. No account needed to get started.