11 Plus Vocabulary

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These include words used by past GL Assessment 11+ papers, and more challenging words from the Year 6 curriculum. Children need to demonstrate a wide range of vocabulary in their writing and verbal reasoning if they want to pass their 11+ tests. We recommend doing one part per week, however if you have more time available, for example if your child is not at school or during the holidays, you can start the next part whenever you are ready. Because vocabulary knowledge is so important we believe children preparing at home simply do not do enough work on this particular area. Our 11 plus vocabulary list includes 500 words that we recommend your child should know before their exam.

Encourage your child to create these cards, this will make it easier to refer back to any new words they came across. There are lots of words to learn and study, which is why this process will take months when done correctly.The two games we’d recommend are either Boggleor Scrabbleor ideally both- Boggle is useful when you have a short period of time, Scrabble is useful when you have longer. The 11+ vocabulary path is cunningly designed to stimulate learning, build mastery and test skill sets for both MCQs and cloze tests. We suggest adopting the flashcard method explained below to help accelerate that 11 plus vocabulary learning and excel in the 11+ English paper.

Encourage your child to make up oral stories and ask them questions to prompt or introduce new vocabulary. Using her 8 Top Tips, over time, your child's language and communication skills will be supported and enriched. Additional Spelling Work- They should be doing some additional spelling work each week vocabulary is such an important part of the 11+ exam. It has been designed to help children get into very competitive selective Grammar Schools or Independent Schools. This is partially because the topic is so large and varied that there isn’t (and could never be) a single book that would cover everything for a child.Take the hard work out of helping your child revise vocabulary and grammar with these nifty 11 Plus books. Some words ( but not all) will have obvious synonyms and opposites so it’s useful to note these down. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Sometimes finding a book related to something they’ve recently watched on TV or a film can be a good entry into it. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.