Annual Primary Assessment – Year 3 Master Pack

Annual Primary Assessment – Year 3 Master Pack

Each assessment covers the age-appropriate objectives for reading, writing and mathematics, as set down in the new National Curriculum.

Reading Assessment elements:

1. Comprehension based on Aesop’s fables and a poem
2. Reading for meaning

National Curriculum objectives covered:

• Understand the meaning of words in context
• Check for sense
• Draw inferences
• Justify inferences e.g. about motives
• Make reasoned predictions
• Identify the main idea
• Summarise ideas
• Identify how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning
• Retrieve and record information
• Identify themes and connections
• Discuss words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination

Writing Assessment elements:

1. Three writing tasks
2. Grammar and punctuation
3. A test of spelling

National Curriculum objectives covered:

• Organise paragraphs around a theme
• Create settings, characters and plot
• In non-narrative material, use simple organisational devices such a key sentences
• Demarcate sentences correctly
• Use capital letters correctly
• Use commas correctly
• Extend the range of sentences with more than one clause
• Use variations on the simple present and past tenses e.g. present perfect
• Understand the terms noun, verb, adverb, adjective, conjunction and preposition
• Express time, place and cause effectively in sentences
• Use nouns and pronouns appropriately
• Use expanded noun phrases
• Use inverted commas in speech
• Choose a or an
• Use prefixes and suffixes correctly
• Distinguish between common homophones
• Spell words that are often misspelt
• Use the possessive apostrophe correctly
• Increase the legibility, consistency and quality of their handwriting
• A range of spellings drawn from the National Curriculum Year 3 and 4 Spelling appendix

Mathematics Assessment elements:

Organised in strands to reveal patterns of strength and weakness in different topics.  This will be helpful for arranging help and catch-up afterwards.

1. Arithmetic
2. Measurement, Geometry and Statistics

National Curriculum objectives covered:

• Number and place value
• Addition and subtraction
• Multiplication and division
• Fractions
• Measurement
• Geometry
• Statistics