Find the Modal Verbs
Year 5 modal verbs worksheet: underline the modal verb and circle the main verb in ten sentences. Includes a box of nine modals and an answer key.
Year 5 Modal Verbs Worksheets
Year 5 modal verbs worksheets: can, could, will, would, shall, should, may, might and must, showing degrees of possibility, and changing how certain a sentence sounds.
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Modal Verbs worksheets to download
Modal Verbs Certainty Scale
Year 5 modal verbs worksheet: place might, could, may, should, will and must on a certainty scale, then order five rain sentences. Answers included.
Choose the Modal Verb
Year 5 modal verbs worksheet: fill ten gaps with must, may, could, might, should, will, would or shall, then write your own sentences. Answers included.
Change How Certain It Sounds
Year 5 modal verbs worksheet: rewrite eight sentences with a new modal verb to change how certain they sound. Sample answers included.
Modal Verbs in Persuasive Writing
Year 5 modal verbs worksheet: make a weak letter to the head teacher stronger, then write your own persuasive paragraph. Sample answers included.
Modal Verbs Check
Year 5 modal verbs check: underline modal verbs, order will, might and should by certainty, fill two gaps and rewrite a sentence. Answer key included.
Curriculum objectives covered
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Indicating degrees of possibility using adverbs [for example, perhaps, surely] or modal verbs [for example, might, should, will, must]”
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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.
Grammar and Punctuation
Using commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing, and controlling punctuation across longer, more complex sentences.
Relative Clauses
Year 5 relative clauses worksheets: relative pronouns who, which, where, when, whose and that, adding relative clauses to sentences, commas around relative clauses and omitted pronouns.