Use this Year 5 Recognising Commas to Avoid Ambiguity Prior Learning worksheet to assess children's understanding of using commas in lists and for adverbials and clauses before moving onto using commas to avoid ambiguity. An answer sheet is provided in a child-friendly way to allow for peer or self marking or to make marking and misconception checking quicker and easier.

This worksheet could be used as a prior knowledge check before the lesson or with small groups of children who may need extra support with using commas correctly.