Albion's Dream

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Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9546 Ocr_module_version 0.0.10 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000158 Openlibrary_edition Then suddenly I found myself standing in a hot savanna and all that I heard was Em Sharps voice saying "Find water, find water, you need to find water NOW!" Edward. It's time you found out about my past. My name is Emily Sharp. You have probably not heard of me. Thousands of years ago, my great grandma, Maria Sharp, was a murderer. She murdered anybody, whenever she felt like it. She was wanted by the police as soon as she turned twenty. She was eventually found and taken to prison, but ever since the police had to keep a close eye on my family. As it passed through the generations. It was killing spree, after killing spree, after killing spree. When you were little, your mum mysteriously died, correct?" She said with a smirk on her face.

I stood rooted to the spot. What was so important that Em Sharp wanted so badly about this mysterious box? She stared at me with frustration and didn't blink. I had never seen her so worked up and angry before. She also looked a bit scared, I could see it in her eyes. Then I said "Why is it that you want this box so badly?!" There is no surprise that 4/17 marks (3 questions) available in this middle text tested content domain 2a – give/explain the meaning of words in context. Questions 16 and 20 were presented in the familiar ‘ Find a copy a word/group of words’ style question stem. However, question 22 demanded a deeper thought process as it was a 2-mark vocabulary question. Still crying, I was determined to find out what was going on with it I told Em Sharp, that I'm sorry, and I won't do it again.

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I love the 'rooted to the spot' choice FER. Excellent use of apostrophes for contraction. A very effective ending. Well done. Prize Box :) That leaves us to examine the second extract – the poem ‘ Grannie’. A closer look at the content domains tested in this extract (9/17 marks inference based) shows that this narrative poem was tested in a similar style to a straight-forward fiction text. This in itself raises implications for teachers of all year groups – how much narrative poetry is read by and explored/discussed in Key Stage 2? It was just then when the awkwardness ended. A large hand, which belonged to Em, reached out and grasped tight onto the box. Edward pulled with his almighty strength and closed his eyes tight, as if to say: Just let me have it, it’s mine. His face went red, applying to Em, as well. They had each developed a sudden weakness, causing them to drop the box on to the floor boards. The grey dust awakened and slowly faded away. Em and Edward both looked up at each other. It was then that all turned dark. Em bent down as fast as ever and snatched the box out of sight. She had already escaped the room before Edward had a chance to make a move. At Crewe in the second half Alex (Frutos) disappeared, Harty ( Gary Hart) had a poor game. We cannot have that, it has got to be sustained. I wrote Albion's Dream in six months; Red Die took me 18 years (!), Shadowborne also went through many revisions. These made the dice trilogy, ghost stories in which the present is haunted by the past. Treetime was written for younger children and led to my fruitful relationship with the Istanbul publishers Yapi Kredi, who have published some of my stories directly into Turkish. Treetime is in its 20th edition in Turkey. My new book is a collection of short stories called Borrowed Voices, in which the only ghosts are literary.

So what was the make-up of the 2018 KS2 reading test? Did it mirror some of the trends that we have identified over the last few years since the new suite of tests were presented to us? Here is a break-down of how the content domains were tested across the three extracts: If I were a betting woman, I’d have had money on the inclusion of a poem in this year’s test. Alas I’m not, but I do maintain a certain degree of smugness having reminded my teaching network to include poetry in their pre-SAT preparations. Grannie by Vernon Scannell presented as an accessible poem and was sourced from the excellent The Works 4, edited by Pie Corbett and Gaby Morgan. That the STA are sourcing test materials from such high-quality publications gives me hope for future tests. It also suggests that well-curated high-quality published resources should be informing our day-to-day English teaching. As we do not yet know how well children performed in this item, I would hope that although the layout of the question was different, many year 6 readers will have coped with this style of question.Once the threshold has been released and later the QLA, we will be able to further analyse how specific items worked in this test and how well children performed both nationally and in your own settings. For now, we need to wait! We need 11. If we get 11 we have got a chance. We've got to get that, we cannot keep shooting ourselves in the foot." I managed to persuade Em Sharp to let me keep the box to look at it. She wasn’t keen but said I could look at it but to be careful. I am not sure why she said that. Y-yes." I murmered, more scared than ever. I could see a big smile growing on her face. She looked happy, almost. "Well, Edward. I murdered your mother." She replied. I didn't know what to say. Was this a joke? I wanted to say it was but I could tell that it wasn't by her face. A tear streamed down my face.

I stood rooted to the spot. What was so special about the box that Em Sharp wanted it so badly? She stared at me, unblinking and vicious. I had never seen Em so angry. But she also looked scared. I could see it in her eyes. My instinct was telling me to give it her but I was too curious to see what was in it. Excellent use of adventurous vocabulary RMc :) and lots of effective verbs. great work. Prize Box!! Great idea to use Greek Gods ON. A very effective ending with a variety of adverbials. I really like your choice of vocabulary. Prize Box :) Texts are rich and challenging so that children are accustomed to reading at the level of the SATs. life is but the will to power, said the wizard to the board game, and to the boy, and to the boy's cousin, this wizard who was both school physician and Death Incarnate. life is but the power to force my will onto chaos, to create my own rules, to understand the universe's secrets so that they are but tools in my hand. I will make it happen! it's all so exciting to control fate, said the wizard. I shall exercise my mind and so enlarge my dominion, all shall be my puppets, the world itself my stage if I will it, wouldn't that be fun?In the 2017 KS2 reading test, a 2-part question beginning with ‘According to the text…’ was included in the third tier. However, this year one was presented in the first tier. Since the new style of test was introduced, each year we have seen a range of new question styles. We have become familiar with some and children have been well-prepared with the variety of question types and styles (Rising Stars Optional Tests and Progress Tests are great resources that familiarise children with this). Let’s take a closer look at the variety of questions that were included in the 2018 test and any that were presented in an unfamiliar way. Another pattern apparent in the language of the questions centred on the ability to visualise based on the information given. Visualisation sits firmly within 2d (inference) and was tested twice through the use of the phrase ‘ what impression/s’ and once through the use of the phrase ‘ what suggests’. These are phrases that most Year 6 pupils are unlikely to use in their everyday language. Again, to build familiarity and understanding of what they are being asked to do, these phrases need to be used regularly in the classroom when asking 2d questions (and also with 2g questions of which there were none this year). Thus, the "pass mark" for children taking the 2018 KS2 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling SATs was 38/70 or 54.3%. The position of both 3-mark questions being in the last 3 items of the paper may have impacted on some children who ran out of time. The last three questions totalled 8 marks which has implications for children and stamina.