Add a Relative Clause

Year 5 EnglishRelative Clauses3 pages

About this worksheet

A three-page Year 5 sheet where pupils write their own relative clauses. Task 1 gives eight short sentences with a caret mark, such as The dragon ^ slept and The baker ^ made fresh bread, plus a word bank of who, which, that, whose and where. Task 2 asks which clauses needed commas and why, then pupils move the extra information in a sentence about an old castle into a relative clause. The key gives sample answers only, since every pupil's detail will differ. It follows England National Curriculum grammar for Years 5 and 6, including commas.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œusing relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that, or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative pronounโ€

In Task 1 pupils write a clause of their own in each of eight sentences, choosing the pronoun themselves.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œusing brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesisโ€

Task 2 question 1 asks which clauses needed commas and why, and the castle rewrite needs a pair of commas.

What's inside this worksheet

Add a Relative Clause

Eight sentences in two columns, each with a caret where the clause goes and three lines to rewrite it. A row of five pronouns sits above them.

Check and Rewrite

Pupils say which of their clauses needed commas and why. Then they rewrite The old castle stood at the top of the steep hill and had a secret tunnel using a relative clause.

Answers

Sample clauses for all eight sentences, such as The dragon, which had shiny green scales, slept, and two ways to rewrite the castle sentence.

How teachers use it

Modelling

Do sentence 1 on the board twice, once with which and commas and once with that and none. Pupils then see the choice before they make their own.

Read-aloud check

Pupils read their eight sentences to a partner, who says whether each clause sounds like extra information or tells you which one is meant.

Early finishers

Ask them to write a second clause for sentence 6, the dog that barked loudly, using a different pronoun and punctuation.

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