Year 5 · English

Parenthesis Awareness

Year 5 learners practise brackets dashes and commas for parenthesis.

The activities include Practise Using Parentheses, Understand Parenthesis, Use Brackets and Dashes for Parenthesis, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, teaching, worksheet, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

Practise Using Parentheses
Understand Parenthesis
Use Brackets and Dashes for Parenthesis
Use Correct Parentheses in Writing
Use Parentheses
Use Parentheses in Writing

Checked learning resources

What Is Parenthesis? | KS2 English Concept Video

Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

Exact KS2 video explains how brackets, dashes and commas mark non-essential parenthetical information and includes questions.
How to Use Parentheses: Dashes, Brackets and Commas

BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

KS2 guide compares brackets, dashes and commas as paired punctuation for parenthesis.
UKS2 Use Brackets, Dashes or Commas to Indicate Parenthesis

Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

Upper-KS2 resource pack gives varied practice selecting and using all three devices of parenthesis.
Planit Y5 Spag Lesson Pack Commas To Indicate Parenthesis

Twinkl · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

Year 5 English resource matched to brackets dashes and commas for parenthesis.
Planit Y5 Spag Lesson Pack Brackets

Twinkl · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

Year 5 English resource matched to brackets dashes and commas for parenthesis.
Dashes To Indicate Parenthesis Lesson Plan Year 5 English Tp2 E 4654

Twinkl · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

Year 5 English resource matched to brackets dashes and commas for parenthesis.
Speech punctuation, parenthesis and apostrophes

Oak National Academy · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

Year 5 English resource matched to brackets dashes and commas for parenthesis.
Punctuation

BBC Bitesize · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

Year 5 English resource matched to brackets dashes and commas for parenthesis.