Consolidating Parenthesis 2 Year 6 Consolidation Resource Pack

Consolidating Parenthesis 2 Year 6 Resource Pack

Step 6: Consolidating Parenthesis 2 Year 6 Resource Pack

Consolidating Parenthesis 2 Year 6 Resource Pack includes a teaching PowerPoint and differentiated varied fluency and application and reasoning resources. This pack is designed to work alongside our GPS Scheme of Work for Summer Block 2.

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What's included in the pack?

This pack includes:

    • Consolidating Parenthesis 2 Year 6 Teaching PowerPoint.
    • Consolidating Parenthesis 2 Year 6 Varied Fluency with answers.
    • Consolidating Parenthesis 2 Year 6 Application and Reasoning with answers.

National Curriculum Objectives

English Year 5: (5G5.9) Using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis​

English Year 6:(6G5.13) Using hyphens to avoid ambiguity

English Year 6: (6G5.13) How hyphens can be used to avoid ambiguity [for example, man eating shark versus man-eating shark, or recover versus re-cover]

Terminology for pupils:

Differentiation:

Varied Fluency
Developing Questions to support using dashes/hyphens and brackets to demarcate adding parenthesis or to avoid ambiguity within a single-clause sentence.
Expected Questions to support using dashes/hyphens and brackets to demarcate adding parenthesis or to avoid ambiguity within a multi-clause sentence.
Greater Depth Questions to support using dashes/hyphens and brackets (or commas) to demarcate adding parenthesis or to avoid ambiguity within a multi-clause sentence, where subordinate clauses are also used. Hyphens are used within words and children will need to decide if an alternative to dashes (e.g. commas) may be more appropriate to make the sentence easier to read.

Application and Reasoning
Questions 1, 4 and 7 (Application)
Developing Using the sentence opener complete the sentence and include a hyphen.
Expected Using the sentence opener complete the sentence and include a hyphen and brackets.
Greater Depth Using the sentence opener complete the sentence and include a hyphen, a comma and brackets.

Questions 2, 5 and 8 (Reasoning)
Developing Explain the difference between two single clause sentences when one hyphen has been used.
Expected Explain the difference between two multi clause sentences when one hyphen has been used.
Greater Depth Explain the difference between two sentences when more than one hyphen has been used.

Questions 3, 6 and 9 (Reasoning)
Developing Identify where a hyphen should be placed in a single clause sentence and explain why.
Expected Identify where a hyphen or brackets should be placed in a multi-clause and explain why.
Greater Depth Identify where a hyphen and brackets should be placed in a sentence and explain why.

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