The SEA is written at the end of Standard 5, so this is the year for focused practice. Pick a topic below, or start with the free exercises and work through them at your own pace.
Read stories and poems closely. Say what a character is like, prove it with a detail from the text, and work out hard words from the clues around them.
8 free exercises
Find the one grammar mistake in each line and fix it, just like Task 3 of the SEA.
10 free exercises
Read clues, work out what is not said, and explain why things happen in stories, fact texts, notices and poems.
8 free exercises
Read stories, fact texts, poems, a notice and a table. Find the main idea, pick the details that prove it and choose the best summary.
7 free exercises
Read ten Trinidad and Tobago poems and find the similes, metaphors, personification, sound words and pictures in words that make them work.
10 free exercises
Quotation marks, commas and end marks in speech, and quotation marks round titles, the way the SEA tests them.
9 free exercisesFind the one punctuation or capital letter mistake in each line, just like Task 2 of the SEA.
10 free exercisesCommas, apostrophes, colons, end marks and capital letters, every mark the SEA expects you to use and to fix.
5 free exercises
Why was it written, and who is it for? Read stories, fact texts, instructions, notices and adverts, and let the words and the layout give the writer away.
4 free exercises
Find the one wrongly spelt word in each line, tap it and write it correctly, just like Task 1 of the SEA.
10 free exercisesMaster the big spelling rules: i before e, doubling letters, dropping the silent e and changing y to i.
5 free exercises
Make the verb match its subject, even when other words sit in the way.
8 free exercises
Choose the right form of the verb for the time of the action, and keep it steady.
4 free exercises
Work out hard words from the clues around them, then explain similes, metaphors and phrases that do not mean what they say.
10 free exercises
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