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. Check out my shop for loads more free and inexpensive KS3 & KS4, Literacy and whole school resources.

PPt containing 100 grammar and punctuation activities with accompanying answers. Useful for starters at KS3 or for KS2 SATs SPAG practice.

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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.

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. More Step Up to English Resources Complete courses and individual teaching units on all component 1 and 2 topics are available. They include teaching PPTs, all student resources and a set of detailed teacher’s notes and can be found at: RoseandMay TES English Classroom Resources New individual units: AQA Step Up to English: Component 1 STYLE Unit AQA Step Up to English: Component 2 CRIME Unit New Complete Course AQA Step Up to English: Complete Course (Leisure, Crime and Style Units) You may also like: AQA Step Up to English: Component 2 Creative Writing Unit

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. Please note, the watermark on the preview images is not present on the resource itself. You may also be interested in: Key Stage 2 SPaG SATS Set of 66 SATS Style Questions This resource contains a set of 66 SATS style questions on grammatical terms and word classes. The resource includes questions on the following: Nouns Verbs Adjectives Conjunctions Pronouns Possessive Pronouns Relative Pronouns Adverbs Prepositions Determiners Subject and Object Thinking of publishing your own resources or already an author and want to improve your resources and sales? Check out this step-by-step guide: How to Become a Successful TES Author: Step-by-Step Guide

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 Please also take a look at my other resources. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

A poster with types of punctuation to use as a display poster or learning mat.

Enough starters to last you 18 months! 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.

This slideshow is for use in a staff meeting or other training session and provides guidance for the understanding of SPAG for teachers and TAs. It includes clear explanations and examples as well as exercises and links to useful websites for further information. It can be used over more than one session, or to focus on one particular aspect of grammar or punctuation. This might be a useful reference for NQTS , or teachers new to upper KS2 especially teachers who are new to Y6.

2025 KS2 SATs Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Test Mark Scheme on a Page

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 Suffix Repetition Subject and Object Cohesion Fronted Adverbials Ellipsis Layout Devices Semicolon Colon Dash Hyphen Subjunctive Form Active Voice Passive Voice The Zombie Rule - the children love this rule! Modal Verbs Formal and Informal Language Synonym Antonym Perfect Forms (Past Perfect and Present Perfect) Expanded Noun Phrases Inverted Commas Homophone Relative Clause Comma Paragraphs Parenthesis

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 Commas in a list worksheet Commas in a complex sentences worksheet Colons (£2 if purchased on its own) - Colon powerpoint lessons Mastering colons worksheet Semi-Colons (£2 if purchased on its own)- Semi-colon lesson powerpoints Semi-colon worksheets (x2) Semi-colon writing success criteria worksheet Speech- (£2 if purchased on its own) Speech powerpoint lessons Speech worksheet Speech mixed practice worksheet Writing success criteria worksheet Editing and proof reading - (£3 if purchased on its own) 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. Grab a bargain compared to buying these resources separately. If you loved the resource and think it’s worth 5 stars, why not get another one absolutely free? Simply leave a review, email ireviewedajs@outlook.com with your TES username and state the free resource* you would like! (Free resource cannot exceed the value of the original resource purchased)

Two engaging lesson on varying sentence structures and using punctuation for effect. Includes a range of activities and detailed worksheets that really encourage pupils to see the merit of more varied structural choices, as well as emphasises the significance of technical accuracy. Worked extremely well and had high impact on my own classes. Suitable for both KS3 and KS4.

This powerpoint dedicates each slide to a different area of the punctuation and grammar SATs test. It is highly useful when revising the concepts the children must know for the test in an engaging way. All slides followed by an answer slide! The powerpoint covers: Phrases (adverbial, prepositional & noun) Prepositions Co-ordinating and subordinating conjunctions Main & subordinate clauses Relative clauses Modal verbs Determiners Prefixes and suffixes Root words Subject-verb agreement Pronouns Active & passive voice Synonyms & antonyms Progressive tense Perfect tense Word classes Hyphens Colons, semi-colons and dashes Apostrophe for contraction and possession

KS2 English grammar and punctuation powerpoint to use for displays.

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.

It’s a small and free resource based on punctuation such as full stops and capital letters. It is for year 1.

A resource covering all of the following : Proofreading Clauses Sentence fragments Sentence types (simple, compound, complex) Paragraphs Speech Marks Tenses Commas Apostrophes Brackets Colons Semicolons Tasks included.

Literacy. 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. *If you use this resource, I would be grateful if you left a review and let me know how it went. Thank you!*

This versatile worksheet is designed to strengthen students’ grammar and punctuation skills. Suitable for learners of all ages, it includes exercises on sentence structure, verb agreement, and punctuation use, with a focus on common pitfalls. Clear examples and practice tasks make it an excellent resource for building writing accuracy and confidence in both ESL and native-speaking students.