The English skills your child will require aren’t too dissimilar from what they’ve been learning at school but they’ll need to work at a much higher level and at much greater speed. Your child will usually be expected to be able to achieve a grade of “Working at Greater Depth” in their Year 6 SATs in both Reading, Writing and Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling or an equivalent measure in independent education. At EdPlace we’ll expose your child to higher level English skills whilst familiarising them with the relevant types of timing and phrasing they’ll see in the 11+ exam.
11+ English Skills |
Exam Board |
Grammar: Sentences, Phrases & Clauses |
CEM / GL |
Grammar: Pronouns, Prepositions & Conjunctions |
CEM / GL |
Grammar: Subject & Object |
CEM / GL |
Grammar: Adverbs, Adverbials & Modal Verbs |
CEM / GL |
Grammar: Nouns, Verbs & Tenses |
CEM / GL |
Grammar: Subject, Object, Gender & Diminutives |
CEM / GL |
Grammar: Synonyms & Antonyms |
CEM / GL |
Grammar: Alliteration & Onomatopoeia |
CEM / GL |
Grammar: Imagery (Metaphors, Similes & Personification) |
CEM / GL |
Punctuation: Commas, Hyphens, Parentheses & Dashes |
CEM / GL |
Punctuation: Direct & Reported Speech |
CEM / GL |
Punctuation: Colons, Semicolons & Apostrophes |
CEM / GL |
Standard Comprehension |
CEM / GL |
Cloze–Word Bank |
CEM / GL |
Cloze–Missing Word |
CEM / GL |
Cloze–Multiple Choice |
CEM / GL |
Spelling: Prefixes & Suffixes |
CEM / GL |
Spelling: Silent Letters |
CEM / GL |
Spelling: Homophones |
CEM / GL |
Spelling: Awkward Spellings |
CEM / GL |
Spelling: Plurals |
CEM / GL |
Composition: Letter Writing in Style of Extract |
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Composition: Writing an Article Based on Extract |
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Composition: Essay Writing |
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Composition: Personal Account |
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Composition: Imaginative Account |
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Composition: Diary Entry |
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Composition: Continuous Writing |
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Composition: Playscript Writing |
How to use our resources to achieve results
Our 11+ resources are designed to teach skills and then discreetly test your child with exam-style questions and practice papers too. Giving you visibility to their progress. To help you support your child best, our resources are aligned to exam boards with progressive leveling, starting at year 3 and working to exam-style questions and practice papers in year 5. This allows you to set your child at a level that suits them and develop the skills needed overtime; removing exam pressure and building their confidence.
Learn the skills using our resources, practice what you’ve learnt with our exam-style questions and test for exam readiness with our practice papers - success!
Our resources are designed to teach skills through our teacher-guided activities and then discreetly test your child with exam-style questions and practice papers. Giving you visibility to their progress.
Adding Suffix -ation 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYAdding suffix -ation 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYAre you ready to do the 11+? (CEM exam board specific)
PREVIEW ACTIVITYAre you ready to do the 11+? (Generic Practice)
PREVIEW ACTIVITYAre you ready to do the 11+? (GL exam board specific)
PREVIEW ACTIVITYArguments For and Against
PREVIEW ACTIVITYChange the Gender of Words 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYChange the Gender of Words 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYCo-ordinating and Subordinating conjunctions: Making a Distinction
PREVIEW ACTIVITYCompare Objective and Subjective Texts
PREVIEW ACTIVITYCompare Two Poems: 'The Echoing Green' and 'The Chimney Sweeper'
PREVIEW ACTIVITYCompare Two Poems: 'Wind on the Hill' and 'The Wind Begun ...'
PREVIEW ACTIVITYConjunctions
PREVIEW ACTIVITYConnectives: Linking Phrases, Sentences and Paragraphs
PREVIEW ACTIVITYDescriptive Writing: Similes and Metaphors
PREVIEW ACTIVITYDescriptive Writing: Using Powerful Verbs
PREVIEW ACTIVITYDirect and Reported Speech: Know the Difference 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYDirect and Reported Speech: Know the Difference 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYDirect and Reported Speech: Know the Difference 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYDistinguish Between Common Homophones 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYDistinguish Between Common Homophones 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYDistinguish Between Common Homophones 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYExplain the Meaning of Proverbs
PREVIEW ACTIVITYExplain the Meaning of Proverbs
PREVIEW ACTIVITYGrammatical Boundaries: Using Commas in Sentences
PREVIEW ACTIVITYHaiku Poems: Understanding the Features
PREVIEW ACTIVITYIdentify Adverbs in a Sentence 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYIdentify Adverbs in a Sentence 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYIdentify Adverbs in a Sentence 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYIdentify Antonyms
PREVIEW ACTIVITYIdentify Powerful Verbs in Sentences 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYIdentify Powerful Verbs in Sentences 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYIdentify Text Meaning Recognise forms of poetry-stanzas
PREVIEW ACTIVITYIdentify Text Meaning
PREVIEW ACTIVITYIdentify Text Meaning
PREVIEW ACTIVITYIdentify Text Meaning
PREVIEW ACTIVITYInformal Writing: Using Dashes
PREVIEW ACTIVITYInterpret Information on a timeline
PREVIEW ACTIVITYInvestigate Homophones: Affect and Effect
PREVIEW ACTIVITYInvestigate Prepositions 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYInvestigate Prepositions 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYInvestigate Prepositions 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYInvestigate Spelling Patterns in Pluralisation 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYInvestigate Spelling Patterns in Pluralisation 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYInvestigate Spelling Patterns in Pluralisation 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYInvestigate the Origin of Place Names
PREVIEW ACTIVITYInvestigate Words with Silent Letters: 'b' and 'l'
PREVIEW ACTIVITYInvestigate Words with Silent Letters: 'k' and 'g'
PREVIEW ACTIVITYInvestigate Words with Silent Letters: 'w' or 'h'
PREVIEW ACTIVITYJoin Sentences in Different Ways 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Apostrophes: Marking Possession 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Apostrophes: Marking Possession 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Apostrophes: Marking Possession 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Grammar: Using Conjunctions
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Homophones: Choosing Correctly
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Homophones: there, their and they're
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Homophones: to, too and two
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Homophones: where, were and we're
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Number Prefixes
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Prefixes and Suffixes: Forming Diminutives
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Prefixes and Suffixes: Forming Diminutives
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Prefixes: ad- and al-
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Prefixes: aero-
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Prefixes: audi- and aqua-
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Prefixes: auto-, bi-, circum-, tele- and trans-
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Prefixes: dis-
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Prefixes: micro- and photo-
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Prefixes: sub-
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Punctuation: Brackets for Parenthesis
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Roots: 'tele' and 'scope'
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Suffixes: -able
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Suffixes: -cede and -ceed
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Suffixes: -cian
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Suffixes: -graph or -graphy
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Suffixes: -ible and -able
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Suffixes: -ise and -ice
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Suffixes: -ive
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Suffixes: -ly
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Suffixes: -ology
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Suffixes: Make Adjectives into Nouns 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Suffixes: Make Adjectives into Nouns 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Suffixes: Make Adjectives into Nouns 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Suffixes: Make Adjectives into Nouns 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Suffixes: Make Adjectives into Nouns 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Suffixes: Make Adjectives into Nouns 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Tenses: How They Relate to the Purpose and Structure of Texts
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Terminology: Past, Present and Future Tenses
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Terminology: Subject and Object
PREVIEW ACTIVITYKnow Your Terminology: Subject and Object
PREVIEW ACTIVITYLearn Facts from a Poem
PREVIEW ACTIVITYNoun Formations: Adding Prefixes
PREVIEW ACTIVITYNouns and Pronouns: Knowing the Difference 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYNouns and Pronouns: Knowing the Difference 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYNouns and Pronouns: Knowing the Difference 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYNouns and Pronouns: Knowing the Difference 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYNouns: Investigate Collective Nouns
PREVIEW ACTIVITYNouns: Recognise and Spell Irregular Plurals 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYNouns: Recognise and Spell Irregular Plurals 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYNouns: Recognise and Spell Irregular Plurals 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYNouns: Recognise and Spell Irregular Plurals 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYNouns: Recognise Singular and Plural Nouns
PREVIEW ACTIVITYPluralise Nouns Ending in -f or -fe
PREVIEW ACTIVITYPractise Your Pronouns: First, Second and Third Person
PREVIEW ACTIVITYPrefixes and Suffixes: Using tele- and -phone to Form New Words
PREVIEW ACTIVITYPunctuate Direct Speech
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRead and Interpret Instructions
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRead and Understand: 'What Katy Did' 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRead and Understand: 'What Katy Did' 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRecognise forms of poetry-rhyming poetry
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRecognise Noun Types
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRevise Homophones 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRevise Homophones 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRevise Homophones 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRevise Root Words: Adding Prefixes 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRevise Root Words: Adding Prefixes 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRevise the Use of Prepositions in Sentences
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRevise Verb Endings: -s, -ed and -ing 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRevise Verb Endings: -s, -ed and -ing 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRevise Your Adverbs: Different Types
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRevise Your Colons
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRevise Your Nouns: Different Types
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRevise Your Nouns: Making Plurals
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRevise Your Pronouns: Different Types
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRevise Your Punctuation: Colons and Semi-Colons 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRevise Your Punctuation: Colons and Semi-Colons 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRevise Your Semi-Colons: Joining Clauses and Sentences
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRevise Your Suffixes: -cian, -sion and -tion
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRevise Your Suffixes: -sion
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRoot Words: Using Suffixes to Make Verbs 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRoot Words: Using Suffixes to Make Verbs 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRoot Words: Using Suffixes to Make Verbs 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRoot Words: Using Suffixes to Make Verbs 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRoot Words: Using Suffixes to Make Verbs 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYRoot Words: Using Suffixes to Make Verbs 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYSentence Composition: Single and Multi Clauses
PREVIEW ACTIVITYSentence Structure: Commas and Subordinate Clauses 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYSentence Structure: Commas and Subordinate Clauses 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYSentence Structure: Using 'if' 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYSkimming and Scanning: Skills Required
PREVIEW ACTIVITYSpeech Marks: How to Use Them
PREVIEW ACTIVITYSpeech Marks: When to Use Them
PREVIEW ACTIVITYSpell Commonly Used Tricky Words
PREVIEW ACTIVITYSynonyms: Varying Your Word Choice 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYSynonyms: Varying Your Word Choice 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYTerminology: The Language of Poetry
PREVIEW ACTIVITYTerminology: The Language of Poetry
PREVIEW ACTIVITYTerminology: The Language of Poetry
PREVIEW ACTIVITYTerminology: The Language of Poetry
PREVIEW ACTIVITYTricks For Spelling Difficult Words
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Adding and Emphasising Connectives
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Antonyms 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Antonyms 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Antonyms 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Auxiliary Verbs
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Cause and Effect Connectives
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Comparing and Contrasting Connectives
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Modal Verbs 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Modal Verbs 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Personification
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Pronouns 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Pronouns 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Pronouns 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Qualifying Connectives
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Synonyms
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Tenses: Verb Awareness 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Tenses: Verb Awareness 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Tenses: Verb Awareness 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Tenses: Verb Awareness 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Terms Used in Poetry
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Terms Used in Poetry
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand the Features of Biographies
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand the Features of Discussion Texts
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand the Features of Explanation Texts
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand the Features of Instructional Texts
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand the Features of Non-Chronological Reports
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand the Features of Persuasive Texts
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Verb Prefixes: De- 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Verb Prefixes: De- 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Verb Prefixes: De- 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Verb Prefixes: De- 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Verb Prefixes: Dis- 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Verb Prefixes: Dis- 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Verb Prefixes: Dis- 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Verb Prefixes: Dis- 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Verb Prefixes: Mis- 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Verb Prefixes: Mis- 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Verb Prefixes: Mis- 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Verb Prefixes: Mis- 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Verb Prefixes: Over- 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Verb Prefixes: Over- 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Verb Prefixes: Over- 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Verb Prefixes: Re- 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Verb Prefixes: Re- 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Verb Prefixes: Re- 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUnderstand Verb Prefixes: Re- 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Brackets and Dashes for Parenthesis
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Colons Correctly: Adding Further Information
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Colons Correctly: Lists and Quotations
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Colons for Lists
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Hyphens to Join Prefixes to Root Words 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Hyphens to Join Prefixes to Root Words 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Hyphens to Join Prefixes to Root Words 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Hyphens to Join Prefixes to Root Words 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Hyphens to Join Prefixes to Root Words 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Hyphens to Join Prefixes to Root Words 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Modal Verbs and Adverbs to Show Degrees of Possibility
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Modal Verbs and Adverbs to Show Degrees of Possibility
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Modal Verbs and Adverbs to Show Degrees of Possibility
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Prefixes to Create Antonyms
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Prefixes to Create Antonyms
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Pronouns Correctly 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Pronouns Correctly 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Pronouns Correctly 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Semi-Colons Correctly 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Semi-Colons Correctly 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Semi-Colons Correctly 3
PREVIEW ACTIVITYUse Verb Tenses Consistently
PREVIEW ACTIVITYWrite Alliterative Sentences
PREVIEW ACTIVITYWrite Headlines for Newspaper Reports
PREVIEW ACTIVITYWriting to Persuade: Class Pet
PREVIEW ACTIVITYWriting: Making Vocabulary Choices 1
PREVIEW ACTIVITYWriting: Making Vocabulary Choices 2
PREVIEW ACTIVITYHow to use our resources to achieve results
Here at EdPlace, we believe that helping your child achieve their best on the 11+ exam doesn’t start in year 5. It’s important to understand your child’s full potential and help them develop the skills needed as early as year 3. This will also help you gauge your child’s prospects, ensuring they really shine at grammar school. Our aim is to help take away the exam pressure for your child whilst building their skills and confidence so they can achieve their best. Our revision resources are designed to help students aged 8 to 11 build up to the skills and levels needed to pass the 11+. We’re confident our non-verbal, spatial and verbal reasoning, maths/numerical reasoning and English resources tailored to CEM and GL will help your child soar; and whatever the outcome, we’ll be here to support them on the other side of the 11+ exam too, right up to GCSE!
Learn the skills using our resources, practice what you’ve learnt with our exam-style questions and test for exam readiness with our practice papers - success!
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