Punctuation Lessons

8 Punctuation lessons, designed to improve literacy and pupils use of punctuation in their creative writing.

Each lesson follows a similar structure.

• Pupils are given quotes from fiction and asked to identify the similarity. The similarity is the skill being studied that lesson.
• Definitions are given and examples. Pupils are taught how to use the skill.
• A quiz where pupils fix the punctuation errors in the sentence. (Answer slides included.)
• Pupils finish the lesson by writing creatively, consolidating the skill they have learned that lesson. Planning activities are included.
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  Lessons are on the following skills:

1. Full stops and commas
2. Exclamation and question marks
3. Dashes
4. Brackets
5. Ellipses
6. Speech marks
7. Colons
8. Semi-colons

A different image is provided for all of the lessons, except the speech marks one, however pupils are given a focus. The images all differ and include: a crowded beach, haunted house, theme park, storm, zoo, and more.