A simple but effective game which revises different parts of grammar and punctuation.
Pupils play in teams. They choose an area (eg verbs) from the game board. The PowerPoint will throw up a question about the chosen area and reveal the answer when clicked.
This activity can easily last a whole one hour lesson. Pupils enjoy the competitive element. It can be used as a ‘fun’ way to revise grammar terminology in preparation for the KS2 SATs.
Categories in the game: verbs, connectives, adverbs, subject and object, names for words (eg plural, antonym), prepositions and articles, adjectives and determiners, apostrophes, various punctuation.
A fun and engaging space-themed booklet - designed to help students practice their key spelling, grammar and punctuation skills. This 30 page booklet contains activities and tasks covering:
word classes
prefixes / suffixes
plurals
verb tenses
capital letters
speech marks
high frequency words
proofreading
comprehension
end/ beginning sounds
synonyms/ antonyms
and more!
This document can be used as a booklet or printed off as individual worksheets. Perfect for whole class use, SEND/EAL/Lower ability interventions, homework, home learning and more.
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Fifty-one multiple choice questions and one writing task designed to give you valuable insights into your students’ language abilities.
This test covers a range of topics including:
Basic Language Skills: This section assesses the students’ knowledge of the English language by testing their understanding of the alphabet, adjectives, verbs, nouns, adverbs, and connectives.
Sentence Structure Identification: This section tests the students’ ability to identify different types of sentences, including simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Noun Types and Modifiers: This section tests the students’ ability to identify collective nouns, plural nouns, fronted adverbials, expanded noun phrases, concrete nouns, and abstract nouns.
Figurative Language
This section tests the student’s understanding of figurative language, including similes, metaphors, personification, oxymorons, descriptive language, sensory details, alliteration, and assonance.
Punctuation Usage: This section tests the students’ knowledge of common punctuation symbols, such as full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas, quotation marks, and apostrophes.
Creative Writing Techniques: This section assesses the students’ ability to structure and organise their creative writing, as well as their ability to use different writing techniques to capture the reader’s attention.
Reading Comprehension
This section of the test helps you assess a student’s reading comprehension abilities. It can also help you to identify if your students may need additional support or instruction in this area. Additionally, this exercise can help you to gauge how well your students are able to extract and comprehend information from written material, which is an essential skill in many academic areas.
Creative Writing
This section is designed to help you assess your student’s ability to communicate their ideas in a clear and organised manner, their ability to engage and maintain the interest of the reader, and their ability to use appropriate grammar, punctuation, and vocabulary. This information can help the you tailor your instruction to meet the needs of individual students and to help them improve their writing skills.
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Not only will this test help you identify areas where your students need additional support, but it also comes with a mark scheme that includes low, mid, and high-ability example answers for the writing section. This makes it easy for you to quickly evaluate your students’ work and track their progress over time.
This resource contains a quiz/revision resource on KS2 SATS English - spelling punctuation and grammar. It can be used as a quiz or as a revision resource.
The quiz can be administered in a variety of ways - to individuals or teams. The answers can be found by clicking on the question image on the bottom right-hand corner of each slide. Answers can be given either as you go through the quiz or at the end. An answer sheet is included to record answers.
The quiz includes SATS style questions on:
grammatical terms, word/classes - nouns, verbs, adjectives, coordinating and subjunctive conjunctions, pronouns possessive, relative, adverbs, adverbials, prepositions, determiners, subject and object, verb tenses, modal verbs, present and past progressive,passive and active, clauses - main, fronted adverbials, subordinate, relational, punctuation - full stops, commas in lists, commas to clarify meaning, question marks, exclamation marks, inverted commas, apostrophes, colons, semi-colons, capital letters, hyphens, direct speech, brackets, determiners, articles - definite and indefinite, function of sentences - declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory sentences (statement, question, command, exclamation), vocabulary -synonyms and antonyms, prefixes and suffixes, spelling - homophones and plurals.
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AQA Step Up to English: Grammar and Punctuation Starters
This resource was designed as a series of starters for my Step Up to English group though it is could be used more widely for those requiring support with improving sentences. It focuses on sentences structure and punctuation and provides opportunities for students to apply new skills. It takes a visual approach to teaching simple, compound and complex sentences and provides texts and writing activities which help provide a context rather than the more traditional method of writing out individual sentences. As well as sentence structure, it covers punctuation including use of commas and punctuating direct speech. It perfectly complements Step Up Component 2 units which require narrative or descriptive writing as many of the examples and tasks are fiction based. Included is a 68 slide teaching PPT plus all ten resources in both word and pdf formats as well as a detailed set of teacher’s notes. I hope you enjoy using these starters and that they help your students to improve their grammar and punctuation.
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I’m an English teacher of 20 years and I have created…
80 PowerPoint slides, one activity per slide. These are all writing activities:
word classes, punctuation, spelling, grammar, vocabulary, connectives, tenses, imagery, descriptive writing techniques, devices, language devices, similes, metaphors, personification, adverbs, adjectives, word classes, nouns, sentence structure, speech, paragraphs, verbs…
Perfect for KS3 year 7, year 8 and year 9. Or KS4 low to mid ability/SEN/Special needs. Dyslexic students will find the instructions clear and the design non-stressful. ADHD students will like the variety of activities and the change of task on each slide as will non SEN students. You could always print the slide for a child with writing difficulties and they can work on the slide.
I’ve used lots of pictures stimuli as per the GCSE exam and have included:
Minecraft, Barbie movie, Fortnight / fortnite, Pokemon and modern student interests. All the skills included build towards KS3 English Launguage writing and towards the GCSE English Language exam. All examboards are covered.
A nice idea would be to print off 4 or 5 activities; put one on a different table/stations and put the kids into groups of 5 and spend 10 minutes on each station; make a whole lesson out of it! Literacy groups could use them as a whole main activity, slides could be printed two to a page and given as hard copies to very low ability kids that struggle to write, this would help them keep up and understand the concept more, then you could stick them in their books. The rest of the class can copy from the board.
The slides could be printed off and turned into a writing homework booklet as everything in the powerpoint is relevant to the UK GCSEs AQA, Pearson, the other boards and the functional skills exams level 1 and 2.
Each slide in this PowerPoint focuses on a different grammatical element. There is a section explaining the rules of the grammatical element to the student and another section with a task that allows the student to practise the usage. These slides can be slotted in to any PowerPoint as a starter task, used as an extension task, used as targeted feedback when marking or as extra revision for students. Or, they could be printed out and given to students as a SPaG booklet to work through. The aim being to improve students’ AO2, AO5 and AO6 skills.
Elements covered:
Adjectives
Adverbials
Apostrophes
Clauses
Colons
Commas
Complex Sentences
Compound Sentences
Coordinating Conjunctions
Discourse Markers
Modal Verbs
Nouns
Parenthesis
Past Tense
Perfect Tense
Prepositions
Present Tense
Pronouns
Relative Clauses
Semi Colons
Sentence Starters
Simple Sentences
Speech Marks
Subject Verb Object
Subordinate Clauses
Subordinating Conjunctions
Verbs
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Year 6 teachers, are you tired of drilling practice papers? Ditch the photocopier and bring grammar revision to life with The Unfair Game: Punctuation Edition a thrilling, high-energy way to prepare for Year 6 Grammar SATs Paper 1.
This brand-new edition focuses on punctuation, ensuring your students have opportunities to practise the punctuation skills needed at KS2, including:
• Full stops, commas and question marks
• Exclamation marks
• Apostrophes for possession and contraction
• Inverted commas
• Commas in lists and to clarify meaning
• Colons, semi-colons and dashes
• Hyphens
Questions are SATs-style, inspired by the 2023 and 2024 papers, so your students are revising exactly what they need in an engaging, strategic format.
Why Choose The Unfair Game?
Unpredictable Point Values: Each question has a hidden score – but will it be positive or negative? Players only find out after answering!
High-Stakes Strategy: Answer correctly, then make a tough call – keep the points or pass them on? You must decide before knowing the value!
Full Engagement: With fast-paced, competitive gameplay, this is SATs revision disguised as fun! Your class will be buzzing with excitement as they strategise, collaborate, and apply their grammar knowledge.
Perfect for SATs Prep: Say goodbye to revision fatigue! The Unfair Game keeps students motivated, focused and actively learning key grammar concepts right up to SATs week.
If you are ready to liven up your SATs grammar revision, choose The Unfair Game: Punctuation Edition. It makes SPAG practice engaging, exciting and – most importantly – unfair!
Download now and let the games begin!
These colourful posters are perfect for any teacher’s English working wall! I often found it difficult to find the perfect poster to display in my classroom as I found I wanted to add or get rid of information so I decided to make my own!
Each poster has a definition and an example. Some even include helpful tips.
Below is what is included:
Prefix
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Subject and Object
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The Zombie Rule - the children love this rule!
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Perfect Forms (Past Perfect and Present Perfect)
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Inverted Commas
Homophone
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Comma
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Complete Punctuation and SPaG scheme of work for Key Stage 3 and GCSE. It’s time to win the battle against poor grammar and punctuation once and for all!
Complete unit of work which will allow your students to master advanced punctuation as well as engage with a range of exciting creative writing tasks. If you are anything like me, explicit teaching/reminding of how to properly apply punctuation is ESSENTIAL for all ability ranges, especially with the new specification GCSE placing so much emphasis on AO6.
These lessons are certainly geared more towards KS3 and KS4 students. Powerpoints are light hearted and fun, with plenty of images/colour and silly jokes to keep your students engaged and entertained. I’ve found these lessons serve as an excellent ‘crash course’ in punctuation either at the beginning of the academic year or in the run up to the GCSE exams. Below is a list of contents:
Commas (£2 if purchased on its own) -
Commas powerpoint lessons
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Semi-Colons (£2 if purchased on its own)-
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Semi-colon worksheets (x2)
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Editing and proof reading mini scheme powerpoint (nearly 50 slides)
Editing and proof reading worksheets (£2 if purchased separately)
A wide range of proof reading worksheets that you can use to consolidate and improve your student’s SPaG and proof reading abilities after you have finished the unit of work.
This unit would suit a range of abilities as there is lots of scope for stretch and challenge, with ambitious success criteria and extension tasks built in throughout. Scaffolding and differentiation options are built in where appropriate.
Fully resourced and ready to roll, minimal adaptation or tweaking required.
This is obviously a SPaG/Punctuation scheme of work, but it is equally focused on creative/descriptive writing too. Much of the content is therefore ideal for teaching general creative writing skills or preparing for the fiction writing task on the new specification (9-1) GCSE English Language exam.
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Four worksheets aimed at learning how to accurately punctuate direct speech.
The worksheets are differentiated to cover a range of difficulty levels.
The speech punctuation used includes inverted commas (speech marks), capital letters, commas and end of sentence punctuation (full stops, exclamation marks or question marks).
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The worksheets can be completed independently or in pairs.
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Key skills for KS2 and KS3 - even KS4 if needed.
Apostrophes, articles, commas, capital letters, compound sentences. complex sentences, exclamation marks, full stops, main and subordinate clause, modal verbs, prepositions, questions marks, speech marks, subject and object.
Over 60 Short daily sessions of grammar and punctuation.
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Positive.
Children enjoy doing grammar and punctuation.
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This sheet was made for Key Stage 3 Literacy classes to help them to proof read.
Some students will be able to recognise that certain things are wrong. Some will be able to correct the mistakes.
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