SPaG Mixed Practice

Year 6 EnglishSPaG3 pages

About this worksheet

Three pages of mixed Year 6 SPaG practice on the passive voice, parenthesis and semi-colons. Pupils turn active sentences, such as "The hungry dog devoured the juicy bone", into the passive. They add extra detail about Mount Everest and a bright red sports car using brackets, dashes or commas. The last section asks them to place a semi-colon in three sentences, and the answers are printed with it. The tasks match England National Curriculum grammar and punctuation objectives for Year 6.

SPaG Mixed Practice: SPaG - page 1

SPaG Mixed Practice: SPaG - page 2

SPaG Mixed Practice: SPaG - page 3

Curriculum objectives covered

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Using passive verbs to affect the presentation of information in a sentence”

The Active and Passive Voice section has two sentences to turn round.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Learning the grammar for years 5 and 6 in English Appendix 2”

The passive voice and semi-colons both come from the Year 6 content in Appendix 2.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis”

The parenthesis section asks pupils to choose brackets, dashes or commas for each sentence.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Using semi-colons, colons or dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses”

Super Semi-colons joins pairs of clauses, such as fantasy adventures and historical fiction.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Use and understand the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 accurately and appropriately in discussing their writing and reading.”

The passive instructions use the terms subject and object, so pupils meet them in context.

What's inside this worksheet

Active and Passive Voice

Two sentences to rewrite in the passive, including "The headteacher awarded the gleaming trophy."

Perfecting Parenthesis

Pupils add "which is in the Himalayas" and "a bright red sports car" as parenthesis and choose the best punctuation for each.

Super Semi-colons

Three sentences, such as the sun beating down on the sand, where pupils insert one semi-colon between the clauses.

How teachers use it

Morning work

Set one section each morning across three days.

SATs revision

Use it as a short mixed round before pupils sit a full grammar paper.

Self-marking

The semi-colon answers sit under the sentences, so pupils can mark that section themselves. Cover them first if you want a cold check.

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