Year 5 · SPaG · Parenthesis, brackets and dashes
Year 5 using brackets to show parenthesis worksheet and PowerPoint
To use a pair of brackets to mark a parenthesis, and to check that both brackets are there.
Brackets
Brackets ( ) go round extra information. Put an opening bracket before it and a closing bracket after it. If you take the brackets and the words inside away, the sentence still makes sense.
| brackets | The dog (a brown spaniel) barked at the postman. |
|---|---|
| check | Is there an opening bracket and a closing bracket? |
| not | Do not put a bracket on its own. |
Examples
- Our school (built in 1950) has a large field.
- London (the capital of England) is a huge city.
Key words
- bracket
- a curved mark ( or ) used round extra information
- opening bracket
- the ( before the extra information
- closing bracket
- the ) after it
- parenthesis
- the extra information inside
What is on the worksheet
Every sheet for this lesson has a short teaching box and 12 questions that get gradually harder: 8 fluency questions, then 4 reasoning questions that ask pupils to explain or choose. A writing challenge follows. The questions use the same styles as the key stage 2 grammar and punctuation test (circle, underline, tick, fill the gap, add punctuation, rewrite, explain). They are written for this website, not copied from past papers.
All the answers are on the last page of the same editable Word file. New questions are made every time, so you can print a different sheet for every group or for homework. The same sheet code always gives the same sheet.
Writing challenge: Write six sentences about your school. In each one, use a pair of brackets to add one extra fact.
Pupil target: I can use brackets to add extra information.
The PowerPoint
A 20-slide lesson deck for the same lesson: a starter that revisits earlier learning, key words, an I do and a You do question on each slide with a countdown timer, answers that appear one click at a time, and a challenge. Download the using brackets to show parenthesis PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 2 of 43 in the Year 5 SPaG scheme, in the block “Parenthesis, brackets and dashes”.
Other lessons in this block
- Recognising parenthesis
- Using dashes to show parenthesis
- Using commas to show parenthesis
- Parenthesis together
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