Use this engaging Year 5 Using Dashes to Indicate Parenthesis Application and Reasoning worksheet to assess how confident your children are in using dashes in this way. With one reasoning and two application questions, children are asked to use dashes to add own parenthesis to a sentence, reposition added parenthesis in a sentence and identify and explain errors made when using dashes to indicate parenthesis.

This worksheet is suitable for use by individuals or small group work. It is differentiated three ways to meet the needs of all your learners. It works well alongside the modelling PPT for Using Dashes to Indicate Parenthesis as the children gain confidence as you model the questions and answers for them. An answer sheet is provided to support staff with marking.