Year 6 · SPaG · Summer: Consolidation: revising the tested content
Year 6 revision: parenthesis, dashes and hyphens worksheet and PowerPoint
To revise: parenthesis: commas, brackets and dashes; single dashes and pairs of dashes; hyphens to avoid confusion; using hyphens.
What this sheet revises
Each question comes from one of the lessons below. If a question is tricky, look back at that lesson’s sheet and slides.
| Parenthesis: commas, brackets and dashes | Adding extra information to a sentence with a pair of commas, brackets or dashes. |
|---|---|
| Single dashes and pairs of dashes | A dash for an extra comment at the end, and a pair of dashes for a parenthesis. |
| Hyphens to avoid confusion | How a hyphen can change meaning: re-cover and recover, man-eating shark and man eating shark. |
| Using hyphens | Hyphens in compound adjectives, numbers and some prefixes. |
Key words
- parenthesis
- extra information inside a sentence
- brackets
- curved marks ( ) that enclose a parenthesis
- dash
- a long line – that can mark a parenthesis
- pair
- two marks: one before and one after
- hyphen
- a short line that joins words
- afterthought
- something added at the end
- ambiguous
- can be understood in two ways
- compound adjective
- two or more words joined to describe a noun
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 most difficult. 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 revision: parenthesis, dashes and hyphens PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 57 of 72 in the Year 6 SPaG scheme, in the Summer term, block “Consolidation: revising the tested content”. It is taught before the SATs grammar test in May.
Other lessons in this block
- Revision: relative clauses, phrases and clauses
- Revision: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and tenses
- Revision: pronouns, determiners, prepositions and sentences
- Revision: prefixes, suffixes and word families
- Revision: commas, apostrophes and speech
- Revision: colons, semi-colons, lists and notes
- Revision: synonyms and antonyms
- Revision: verbs, Standard English and formal writing
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