Year 5 · SPaG · Relative clauses
Year 5 relative clauses together worksheet and PowerPoint
To practise together: relative pronouns; recognising relative clauses; using relative clauses; leaving out the relative pronoun.
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.
| Relative pronouns | Choosing who, which, whose, where, when or that to start a relative clause. |
|---|---|
| Recognising relative clauses | Finding the relative clause in a sentence and the noun it describes. |
| Using relative clauses | Adding a relative clause to a sentence, with the right pronoun and commas. |
| Leaving out the relative pronoun | When who, which or that can be left out and when it must stay. |
Key words
- relative clause
- a clause that gives extra information about a noun
- relative pronoun
- who, which, whose, where, when or that: it starts the clause
- noun
- the person, place or thing the clause describes
- embedded
- in the middle of a sentence
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 relative clause skill 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 relative clauses together PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 10 of 43 in the Year 5 SPaG scheme, in the block “Relative clauses”.
Other lessons in this block
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