Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to model how to extend example sentences about different issues using brackets and dashes to add extra information and interrupting thoughts to provide more details about a specific viewpoint.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use brackets and dashes to add extra information and interrupting thoughts to sentences on different issues.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise using persuasive and discursive language to discuss and argue points of view in letters and magazine articles, identify and use rules to learn new spellings and practise using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis in sentences. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.