Y5 English Week beginning 25.01.2021
Date: 20th Jan 2021 @ 12:03pm
Y5 English Week Beginning 25.01.2021
This week our English will include punctuation, grammar and handwriting lessons. All of your worksheets are on one PDF document named: English worksheets PDF Week beginning 25.01.20
Monday 25.01.21
LO: To use parenthesis (brackets, dashes or commas for extra information)
This lesson will use page 1 and 2 of the PDF document
Parenthesis is the addition of extra information or an afterthought in our writing. It can be a word, phrase or clause marked with brackets, dashes or commas.
Examples
Miss Harper -one of the Y5 teachers- joins our video calls at 9am. (dashes for parenthesis)
The PE teacher (Mrs Powell) helps us to improve our PE skills each week. (brackets for parenthesis)
The video calls, which are at 9am and 1:15am, help us with our learning. (commas for parenthesis)
- Follow the PowerPoint named ‘25.01.21 Monday English PowerPoint Parenthesis’ or open up the PDF document if you do not have PowerPoint.
- Complete page 1 of the document ‘Sandwich sentences’. You have to choose the correct parenthesis that would fit in the correct sentence.
- Check your answers at the end of the PDF document on page 12
- Then, have a go at creating your own parenthesis on page 2 of the document Sandwich sentences 2’
Be creative!
Support task- Only complete page 1 ‘Sandwich sentences’
Deepening challenge- use either brackets, dashes or commas AND you must try to make the teacher laugh, but at the same time, your sentences have to make sense.
Tuesday 26.1.2021 –
LO: To use parenthesis (brackets for extra information)
This lesson will use page 3 and 4 of the PDF document
Today, you will be using brackets specifically for parenthesis (not dashes or commas). Remember, if you take the extra information in brackets out of the sentence, it still makes sense.
Examples
The PE teacher (Mrs Powell) helps us to improve our PE skills each week. (If you took the extra information away, it still makes sense).
Miss Harper has a boxer dog named Walter (he likes to eat grass and weeds). (If you took the extra information away, it still makes sense).
- Follow the PowerPoint named ’26.01.21 Tuesday English PowerPoint Brackets for Parenthesis’ or open up the PDF document if you do not have PowerPoint.
- Complete page 3 ‘Bridget Bracket’ by putting the brackets in the place you think they need to go.
- Check your answers at the end of the PDF document on page 12.
- Then, complete the task on page 4 ‘Bridget Bracket 2nd Challenge’. Match the correct parenthesis to the sentence you think it goes best with.
- Check your answers at the end of the PDF document on page 12.
- Write the sentences out using brackets for parenthesis- in your best handwriting.
Support task- Only complete page 3 ‘Bridget Bracket’. Read your sentence aloud. If you take the extra information OUT of the sentence, that you have put your brackets around, does it still make sense? If not, try again until it does make sense.
Deepening challenge- Modify (change/add to) the sentences in ‘Bridget Bracket 2nd challenge’ so that they include expanded noun phrases to sounds more descriptive.
Wednesday 27.1.2021 –
LO: To use parenthesis (dashes for extra information)
This lesson will use page 5, 6 and 7 of the PDF document
Today, you will be using dashes specifically for parenthesis (not brackets or commas). Remember, if you take the extra information in the dashes out of the sentence, it still makes sense.
Examples
The PE teacher - Mrs Powell - helps us to improve our PE skills each week. (If you took the extra information away, it still makes sense).
Miss Harper has a boxer dog named Walter - he likes to eat grass and weeds. (If you took the extra information away, it still makes sense).
The first example uses pairs of dashes, the second example uses a single dash. If your parenthesis is at the end of a sentence, we only need to use one dash.
- Follow the PowerPoint named ’27.01.21 Wednesday English Powerpoint Dashes for Parenthesis’ or open up the PDF document if you do not have PowerPoint.
- Complete page 5 of the document ‘The Double Dash’ by writing extra information, using pairs of dashes.
- Complete page 7 of the document ‘The Dramatic Dash’ by matching the extra information to the correct sentence. Check your answers on page 13 You must then copy out the sentences using the single dramatic dash.
Support task- Complete page 6 of the document ‘Support task’. This will give you sentences to choose from.
You must include your dashes independently. Check your answers on page 13.
Deepening challenge- When you have completed page 7 of the document ‘The Dramatic Dash’, write a paragraph about your morning, using a single dash for parenthesis and a pair of dashes for parenthesis.
Thursday 28.01.2021 –
LO: To apply parenthesis accurately (Brackets, dashes and commas)
This lesson will use page 8 and 9 of the PDF document
Today, you are going to be applying all of the skills you have built up over the week and you will be using them to create a paragraph using parenthesis.
The paragraph has already been written for you, you now have to add the parenthesis accurately.
- Open up the PDF document and complete page 8.
- Remember to punctuate your paragraph with the correct punctuation.
- Remember to use parenthesis accurately.
Support task- Use page 9 of the document ‘Support task’. This will give you sentences to choose from to put into your paragraph .
Deepening challenge- When you have completed page 8 of the document ‘Parenthesis Paragraph, write a paragraph about yourself using a mixture of parenthesis punctuation (brackets, dashes, a single dash and commas).
Friday 29.01.2021 –
LO: To practise my joined handwriting (25 minutes)
Task 1:
Complete page 10 of the PDF document ‘The Phonetic Alphabet’.
The phonetic alphabet is a list of 26 code words used by the police, military and other emergency services, to send messages over the phone or radio. This is because many letters sound the same, like m and n or s and f, and it can be confusing when you communicate important messages.
L.O: To recall my parenthesis knowledge and skills (35 minutes)
Task 2: Complete page 11 ‘Parenthesis Poster’. You must use the knowledge you have built on this week to create a poster that explains what commas, dashes and brackets for parenthesis are. You can use page 11 OR you can create your own poster.
Support- Use the poster on page 11 to help with your design. Also, use the posters in the document section named: ‘dashes for parenthesis’, ‘commas for parenthesis’, ‘brackets for parenthesis’ to help you with your poster.
Deepening challenge- Use your own knowledge and be creative with your poster. Can you think of a way to help others remember how to use parenthesis? A rhyme? A rap?