Year 5 SPaG Baseline Assessment
Use this Year 5 baseline assessment at the start of the Autumn term to check which grammar, punctuation and spelling skills are secure from Year 4. Designed to support your planning for the term ahead, this assessment aligns with the National Curriculum and covers the key SPaG knowledge needed to access the Year 5 scheme.
The assessment includes:
- Plural possession and apostrophes
- Fronted adverbials and prepositional phrases
- Expanded noun phrases
- Pronouns and verb forms in Standard English
- Direct speech punctuation
- Paragraph structure and cohesion
- Using suffixes like -ous to form adjectives
All questions are mapped to small steps and National Curriculum objectives from Year 4, helping you pinpoint exactly what your class needs to revisit before moving on. A useful start-of-year tool to support accurate grammar teaching from the beginning.
Explore the rest of our year 5 spelling and grammar scheme.
