Year 5 SPaG lesson sheets

The scheme and the PowerPoints

Parenthesis, brackets and dashes

• 1. Recognising parenthesis: Spotting the extra information in a sentence and the marks that show it. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. Using brackets to show parenthesis: Putting extra information inside a pair of brackets. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 3. Using dashes to show parenthesis: Putting extra information between a pair of dashes. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 4. Using commas to show parenthesis: Putting extra information between a pair of commas. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 5. Parenthesis together: Mixed practice: commas, brackets and dashes for parenthesis, in sentences and short texts. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

Relative clauses

• 1. Relative pronouns: Choosing who, which, whose, where, when or that to start a relative clause. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. Recognising relative clauses: Finding the relative clause in a sentence and the noun it describes. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 3. Using relative clauses: Adding a relative clause to a sentence, with the right pronoun and commas. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 4. Leaving out the relative pronoun: When who, which or that can be left out and when it must stay. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 5. Relative clauses together: Mixed practice: relative pronouns, finding and using relative clauses, and leaving the pronoun out. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

Commas

• 1. Commas after fronted adverbials: A comma after an opening phrase or clause that says when, where or how. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. Commas in lists, adverbials and clauses: Commas in a list, after a fronted adverbial, between clauses and round extra information. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 3. Commas to avoid ambiguity: How one comma can change the meaning of a sentence. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

Verb tenses and the perfect form

• 1. Past or present: The simple and progressive present and past tenses, with regular and irregular verbs. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. The present perfect form: Has or have with the past participle: I have finished, she has gone. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 3. Recognising the past perfect form: Had with the past participle: she had finished before we arrived. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 4. Using the past perfect form: Changing a sentence into the past perfect and choosing the right verb group. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 5. Recognising the future perfect form: Will have with the past participle: they will have finished by six. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 6. Using the future perfect form: Changing a sentence into the future perfect and choosing the right verb group. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 7. Recognising the perfect form in sentences: Telling the present, past and future perfect apart. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 8. Using the perfect form in sentences: Changing between the present, past and future perfect. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 9. Which tense?: Choosing the right tense, simple or perfect, for past, present and future. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

Modal verbs and adverbs of possibility

• 1. Recognising modal verbs: Finding modal verbs and saying how certain they make a sentence sound. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. Using modal verbs: Choosing and changing modal verbs to show how certain you are. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 3. Recognising adverbs of possibility: Finding adverbs such as perhaps, probably and certainly, and how certain they sound. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 4. Using adverbs of possibility: Choosing and changing adverbs of possibility to show how certain you are. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

Noun phrases

• 1. Expanded noun phrases: Adding adjectives and prepositional phrases to a noun to give the reader more detail. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. Recognising noun phrases: Finding the noun phrase in a sentence and saying how it has been expanded. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 3. Creating concise noun phrases: Putting the detail into one noun phrase instead of several short sentences. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 4. Writing concise noun phrases: Writing expanded noun phrases with adjectives and prepositional phrases that say a lot in a few words. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 5. Using noun phrases: Choosing and writing noun phrases that give the reader the right detail. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 6. Concise noun phrases together: Mixed practice: recognising, shortening, writing and using expanded noun phrases. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

Word classes

• 1. Pronouns: Personal pronouns, possessive pronouns and possessive determiners, and choosing the right one. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. Recognising adverbs: Finding adverbs and saying whether they tell you how, when, where or how often. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 3. Using adverbs: Choosing adverbs of manner, time, place and frequency, and making adverbs from adjectives. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

Prefixes and suffixes for verbs

• 1. Adding de-, dis- and mis-: Making new words with the prefixes de-, dis- and mis-. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. Adding re- and over-: Making new words with the prefixes re- and over-. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 3. Turning nouns and adjectives into verbs: Making verbs with the suffixes -ate, -ise and -ify. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

Linking ideas

• 1. Pronouns to avoid repetition: Using pronouns so that a noun is not repeated again and again. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. Adverbials of time, place and number: Words and phrases such as later that day, behind the shed and firstly that link and order ideas. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 3. Using devices to build cohesion: Linking words, adverbials and pronouns that make a text hang together. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

Apostrophes and speech

• 1. Plural and possessive apostrophes: Telling plural words from possession, and putting the apostrophe in the right place. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. Direct and reported speech: Punctuating what people say, and telling it as reported speech. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

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