Getting Ready for School Tests: Reading and Writing

This course is suitable for young people applying to study at independent and grammar schools. Lessons focus on generating knowledge and practising English skills and includes timed mock assessments in Reading, Writing and Mathematics.

Course curriculum

1. Reading for the 11+
2. Purpose of 11+ Reading Tests
3. What can you do to prepare for 11+ Reading tests?
1. Describing Settings
2. Descriptive Settings: Busy Cities
3. Setting Descriptions: Senses
4. Features of a newspaper report
1. Introduction
2. Improving Inference Skills
3. Using inference and deduction
4. Looking for clues in the text
5. Forming opinions based on the text
6. Using inference and making deductions: Text 1
7. Using inference and making deductions: Questions 1
8. Using inference and making deductions: Text 2
9. Using inference and making deductions: Quiz 2
1. When: Quiz 1
2. Overview of 'When' Inferences
3. When: Quiz 2
4. Composition 1: Instructions
5. Composition 1: Checklist
6. Composition 1: Submit
1. 'Where' Inferences
2. 'Where' Quiz 1
3. 'Where': Quiz 2
1. Jaelyn and Evin
2. Questions
3. Jaelyn and Evin: Writing Task
4. Jaelyn and Evin: Writing Task - Submit
1. The Bermuda Triangle
2. National Geographic: The Bermuda Triangle
3. Cool Kid Facts The Bermuda Triangle
4. Britannica: The Bermuda Triangle
5. Explore and Practise Vocabulary
6. The Bermuda Triangle: Questions
7. The Bermuda Triangle: Writing Task 1
1. The Pendle Witches
2. National Archives: A witch scare in 17th-century Lancashire, England
3. Explore the vocabulary
4. Pendle Witches: Reading Text
5. Questions
6. Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
7. Pendle Witches: Writing Activity
8. Pendle Witches: Upload your writing
1. Together for our planet
2. One person can change the world: Bren Smith
3. One world; One person: Big Change
4. Green Wave
5. YPTE: Climate Change
6. COP26 Fact Sheet
7. A Growing Global Population
8. Have your say: 1
9. Sustainable Seas
10. Have your say: 2
11. Devastating deforestation
12. Have your say: 3
13. Food for thought
14. Have your say: 4
15. Poverty, social and climate injustice.
16. Have your say: 5
17. Greenhouse gases
18. Have your say: 6
19. Staying healthy
20. Have your say: 7
21. Keeping our sea species safe
22. Have your say: 8
23. Climate challenge
24. Have your say: 9
25. Conserve and restore nature
26. Have your say: 10
27. Letter to a leader about climate change
28. Writing Task: Letter to a leader
1. The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3. Explore Vocabulary
4. The Amazon Basin, northwestern Brazil
5. The Lost World
6. The Lost World: Questions
7. The Lost World: Written Assignment
1. Coming to England: Instructions
2. Coming to England: Text
3. Coming to England: Questions - Part 1
4. Coming to England: Questions - Part 2
5. Coming to England: Writing Task 1
6. Coming to England: Writing Task 2
7. Extended Topic: Cultural Sensitivity
8. Extended Writing: Task
1. Long Passage Comprehension 1: Text
2. Long Passage Comprehension 1: Questions
3. Writing Task: 1
1. Long Passage Comprehension 2: Text
2. Long Passage Comprehension 2: Questions
3. Writing Task: 2
1. Long Passage Comprehension 3: Text
2. Long Passage Comprehension 3: Questions
3. Writing Task: 3
1. Long Passage Comprehension 4: Text
2. Long Passage Comprehension 4: Questions
3. Writing Task:4
1. Long Passage Comprehension 5: Text
2. Long Passage Comprehension 5: Questions
3. Writing Task: 5
1. Long Passage Comprehension 6: Text
2. Long Passage Comprehension 6: Questions
3. Writing Task: 6
1. Long Passage Comprehension 7: Text
2. Long Passage Comprehension 7: Questions
3. Writing Task: 7
1. Long Passage Comprehension 8: Text
2. Long Passage Comprehension 8: Questions
3. Writing Task: 8

About this course

$250.00
111 lessons
1 hour of video content

Getting Ready for School Tests: Reading and Writing

Course curriculum

Getting Ready for 11+ Reading and Writing

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Paper 8

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