Parenthesis, Modal Verbs and Relative Clauses
Year 5 grammar practice on parenthesis, modal verbs and relative clauses. Pupils punctuate, rewrite with modals and complete relative clauses.
Year 5 Grammar and Punctuation Worksheets
Using commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing, and controlling punctuation across longer, more complex sentences.
Year 5 English6 worksheets
Grammar and Punctuation worksheets to download
Relative Clauses Sentence Building
Year 5 relative clauses worksheet with ten sentence frames, from choosing a pronoun to omitting it. Example answers included.
Parenthesis: Brackets, Dashes and Commas
Year 5 parenthesis worksheet: spot, add and write brackets, dashes and commas in 11 questions, ending with the golden rule. Answer key included.
Modal Verbs Cloze: Might, Should, Will, Must
Year 5 modal verbs cloze set on a spooky castle trip. Pupils fill 12 gaps from a word bank with three distractors. Answers included.
Grammar and Punctuation End-of-Topic Test
Year 5 grammar and punctuation test: 30 questions on modals, relative clauses, parenthesis, commas and verb prefixes. Answer key included.
Commas That Change Meaning: Lesson Starter
Year 5 commas starter: sentence pairs like the Grandpa example show how one comma changes meaning. Six questions with answers.
Curriculum objectives covered
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Using modal verbs or adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility”
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Using relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative pronoun”
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis”
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Use and understand the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 accurately and appropriately in discussing their writing and reading.”
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Using commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing”
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Learning the grammar for years 5 and 6 in English Appendix 2”
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Reading Comprehension
Predicting what might happen from details stated and implied, and justifying inferences with evidence from increasingly demanding texts.
Writing
Using a wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs, such as adverbials, pronouns and conjunctions.
Spelling
Using dictionaries and a thesaurus confidently, alongside the Year 5 and 6 spelling patterns and statutory word list.