How is the Comma Used? KS2 SPAG Test Practice

These questions have been taken from the KS2 SPAG test to help your children practise specific question types.

National Curriculum Objectives

Year 3 and 4 English: (4G5.6b) Use commas after fronted adverbials

Year 5 and 6 English: (5G5.9) Using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis

Year 5 and 6 English: (5G5.6a) Using commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing

Differentiation:

Beginner Choose from two options which sentences contain commas for a list and commas used for fronted adverbials. Aimed at Year 3 Mastery/Year 4 Secure/Year 5 Emerging.

Easy Choose from three options which sentences contain commas for a list, commas used for fronted adverbials and commas used for relative clauses. Aimed at Year 4 Mastery/Year 5 Developing.

Tricky Choose from four options which sentences contain commas for a list, commas used for fronted adverbials, commas used for relative clauses and commas for parenthesis. Aimed at Year 5 Secure/Year 6 Emerging.

Expert Choose from five options which sentences contain commas for a list, commas used for fronted adverbials, commas used for relative clauses, commas for parenthesis and commas used to avoid ambiguity. Aimed at Year 5 Secure/Year 6 Emerging.

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