Year 5 · SPaG · Parenthesis, brackets and dashes
Year 5 parenthesis together worksheet and PowerPoint
To practise together: recognising parenthesis; using brackets to show parenthesis; using dashes to show parenthesis; using commas to show parenthesis.
What this sheet covers
Each question comes from one of the lessons below. If a question is tricky, look back at that lesson’s sheet and slides.
| Recognising parenthesis | Spotting the extra information in a sentence and the marks that show it. |
|---|---|
| Using brackets to show parenthesis | Putting extra information inside a pair of brackets. |
| Using dashes to show parenthesis | Putting extra information between a pair of dashes. |
| Using commas to show parenthesis | Putting extra information between a pair of commas. |
Key words
- parenthesis
- extra information put inside a sentence
- brackets
- curved marks ( ) that go round a parenthesis
- dash
- a long line – used to mark off a parenthesis
- pair
- two marks: one before and one after
- bracket
- a curved mark ( or ) used round extra information
- opening bracket
- the ( before the extra information
- closing bracket
- the ) after it
- hyphen
- a short line - that joins words
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: Choose the lesson from this sheet that you found hardest. Write three new questions of your own for a friend, with an answer sheet, then swap and mark each other’s work.
Pupil target: I can remember what I have learned and use it.
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 parenthesis together PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 5 of 43 in the Year 5 SPaG scheme, in the block “Parenthesis, brackets and dashes”.
Other lessons in this block
- Recognising parenthesis
- Using brackets to show parenthesis
- Using dashes to show parenthesis
- Using commas to show parenthesis
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