Y5 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
This lesson covers the prior learning of using commas in lists, adverbials and clauses before moving onto the main skill of recognising commas to avoid ambiguity.
The lesson starts with a prior learning activity to check pupils’ understanding. If they need more practice, you can choose other resources for that step. The interactive lesson slides recap the prior learning before moving on to the main skill. Children can then practise further by completing the activities and can extend their learning with engaging reasoning and application tasks.
National Curriculum Objective:
English Year 5: (5G5.6a) Using commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing
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This teaching PowerPoint guides pupils through the prior learning of using commas in lists, adverbials and clauses before moving onto the main skill of recognising commas to avoid ambiguity. There are some modelled varied fluency and application and reasoning questions included at the end.
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This PowerPoint can be used to model the questions that the children will complete on the varied fluency and application and reasoning worksheets as part of this lesson.
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This is a free scheme of work for Year 5 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling. This resource is the second block in the teaching sequence and includes 2 small steps with guidance for teaching.
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This Recognising Commas to Avoid Ambiguity Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of using commas in lists, adverbials and clauses before moving onto the main skill of recognising commas to avoid ambiguity.
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This Year 5 Using Commas in Lists, Adverbials and Clauses Game is designed to check pupils’ ability to use commas for lists, adverbials and clauses.
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This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency questions for pupils to support the teaching of this step.
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This Year 5 Using Commas to Avoid Ambiguity Game checks pupils' understanding of using commas within sentences to avoid ambiguity and clarify meaning.
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This Year 5 Using Commas to Avoid Ambiguity Flash Cards Game checks pupils' understanding of using commas to clarify meaning and avoid ambiguity in their writing.
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In this Using Commas to Avoid Ambiguity Video Tutorial, Ivan identifies when commas have been used within a sentence to avoid ambiguity.
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This main activity includes varied fluency, reasoning and application questions for pupils to practise the main skill of recognising commas to avoid ambiguity.
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This application task includes a challenge activity which can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the Recognising Commas to Avoid Ambiguity lesson.
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This differentiated worksheet includes application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
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This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.