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Year 6 SATs Practice - SPaG questions - Parenthesis

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At the end of Key Stage 2, children in Year 6 complete the English grammar, punctuation and spelling test (GPS). Are your pupils ready?

This Year 6 SPaG Questions pack will support the practise of test style questions that pupils will face in paper 1 of the end of Key Stage 2 English Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling test.

These resources can be used alongside our Year 6 Revision Blaster worksheets to support revision in your classroom, in this case, of parenthesis.

All our SPAG Questions and Revision Blaster resource packs focus on the content domains from the Key Stage 2 grammar, punctuation and spelling test framework (National Curriculum tests from 2016).

Content domains covered in this resource:

  • G5.9 punctuation for parenthesis

This pack includes:

  • SPaG Questions PPT slides: Parenthesis
  • Let’s Practise! 1 and 2 PDF worksheets, (also shown on PPT slides 5 and 6)

What is parenthesis?

Parenthesis is added to a sentence to give extra information, an explanation or an afterthought. The parenthesis is not needed to make the sentence complete. Parenthesis must be punctuated with brackets, dashes or commas to separate it from the rest of the sentence.

  • Pete (a pupil in year 6) won the school’s poetry competition.
  • Pete, a pupil in year 6, won the school’s poetry competition.
  • Pete - a pupil in year 6 - won the school’s poetry competition.

If you take out the word or phrase between the two brackets, dashes or commas, the sentence should still make sense and be complete.

  • Pete won the school’s poetry competition. 

  • SPaG Questions PPT slides: Parenthesis
  • Let’s Practise! 1 and 2 PDF worksheets, (also shown on PPT slides 5 and 6)
  • Teacher notes
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