English Reading and writing English as a primary school teaches it: phonics, blending and segmenting, tricky words, vowel teams, handwriting, plurals, -ed and -ing, suffixes and prefixes, silent letters, homophones and the famous spelling traps.
Tests: 202 of 666 right (30.3%) · plain 77 of 235 · ★ 60 of 200 · ★★ 31 of 121 · ★★★ 34 of 110 · exam 88 of 240 · Controls: all red · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
The controls , each to be below the real 202 of 666: no lesson 173 of 666 — red; questions shuffled 196 of 666 — red; key sentences removed 195 of 666 — red. The guessers: the longest option 200 of 666; the first option shown 173 of 666. The lessons sentence by sentence: the course in the corpora .
1 Sounds and letters: how phonics starts 4 of 12 right · exam 3 of 4 2 Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check 7 of 12 right · exam 3 of 4 3 Tricky words and common exception words 4 of 12 right · exam 2 of 4 · ★ 4 Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling 7 of 12 right · exam 1 of 4 · ★ 5 Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up 6 of 12 right · exam 2 of 4 6 Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones 1 of 12 right · exam 2 of 4 · ★ 7 Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e 3 of 12 right · exam 2 of 4 · ★★ 8 Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian 7 of 12 right · exam 3 of 4 · ★★ 9 Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment 4 of 12 right · exam 1 of 4 · ★★★ 10 i before e, silent letters and other famous traps 5 of 12 right · exam 2 of 4 · ★ 11 Homophones and near-homophones 4 of 12 right · exam 0 of 4 12 Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir- 5 of 12 right · exam 2 of 4 · ★ 13 Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea) 6 of 12 right · exam 1 of 4 14 Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutory list, by idea) 3 of 12 right · exam 1 of 4 · ★★ 15 How to learn spellings that stick 3 of 12 right · exam 1 of 4 16 Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home 4 of 11 right · exam 1 of 4 17 Retrieval: finding the answer in the text 2 of 11 right · exam 0 of 4 18 Inference: reading between the lines 1 of 11 right · exam 2 of 4 · ★ 19 Prediction: what happens next 1 of 10 right · exam 2 of 4 · ★ 20 Vocabulary in context 3 of 10 right · exam 1 of 4 21 Author's choices: why this word, why this way 0 of 10 right · exam 1 of 4 · ★★ 22 Reading a story: characters, plot and setting 6 of 10 right · exam 2 of 4 · ★ 23 Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report 3 of 10 right · exam 0 of 4 24 Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries 3 of 10 right · exam 3 of 4 · ★★ 25 Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures 3 of 11 right · exam 0 of 4 · ★★★ 26 Sentences: capital letters, full stops and the four types 4 of 11 right · exam 1 of 4 27 Word classes: the jobs words do 2 of 11 right · exam 3 of 4 · ★ 28 Clauses: main, subordinate and joining words 3 of 10 right · exam 4 of 4 · ★★ 29 Fronted adverbials 4 of 10 right · exam 1 of 4 · ★ 30 Relative clauses 2 of 10 right · exam 0 of 4 · ★★★ 31 Tense consistency and verb forms 2 of 11 right · exam 1 of 4 · ★ 32 Active and passive voice, modal verbs 1 of 11 right · exam 1 of 4 · ★★ 33 Commas: lists, clauses and clarity 2 of 11 right · exam 1 of 4 34 Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging 3 of 11 right · exam 0 of 4 35 Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers 3 of 11 right · exam 1 of 4 36 Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens 5 of 11 right · exam 0 of 4 · ★★★ 37 Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together 5 of 11 right · exam 1 of 4 · ★ 38 Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were" in writing 3 of 11 right · exam 1 of 4 · ★ 39 Planning before writing 5 of 11 right · exam 1 of 4 40 Openings that hook the reader 2 of 11 right · exam 2 of 4 · ★ 41 Describing: senses, showing and precise words 2 of 11 right · exam 2 of 4 · ★ 42 Building tension and suspense 3 of 11 right · exam 2 of 4 · ★★ 43 Editing and redrafting 2 of 11 right · exam 2 of 4 44 Writing to inform, instruct and persuade 5 of 11 right · exam 3 of 4 · ★★ 45 Poetry: rhyme and rhythm 4 of 11 right · exam 2 of 4 46 Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration 2 of 11 right · exam 2 of 4 · ★ 47 Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing 3 of 11 right · exam 2 of 4 48 Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell 3 of 11 right · exam 0 of 4 49 Debating and discussion 6 of 11 right · exam 2 of 4 · ★ 50 Listening: following talk, asking good questions 1 of 11 right · exam 2 of 4 51 SATs: the reading paper 1 of 11 right · exam 3 of 4 · ★★ 52 SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper 2 of 11 right · exam 2 of 4 · ★ 53 Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic" 5 of 11 right · exam 1 of 4 54 Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer 2 of 11 right · exam 1 of 4 · ★★ 55 Olympiad: the Spelling Bee 4 of 11 right · exam 0 of 4 · ★★★ 56 Olympiad: word puzzles anagrams, palindromes, word ladders — 5 of 11 right · exam 1 of 4 · ★★★ 57 Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words 5 of 11 right · exam 0 of 4 · ★★★ 58 Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages 0 of 11 right · exam 1 of 4 · ★★★ 59 Olympiad: real languages and codes 5 of 11 right · exam 2 of 4 · ★★★ 60 Olympiad: tricky comprehension 1 of 11 right · exam 2 of 4 · ★★★ ← previous Chinese streetnext → Euphemisms↑ back to at school This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/