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.

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

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

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.

The tests are designed to assess children’s grammar and punctuation knowledge in Year 3 during the end of the Spring Term. The resource packs consists of the spring assessment with the answers sheet for your convenience. The test questions are styled with the National Curriculum objectives.

I wrote this based on the sample materials that have been published. It is the same format, with the same number of questions as the new Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation SATs test and should be done in 45 minutes. Hope it is helpful

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.

Bring festive fun to your English lessons with this 16 page Christmas SPaG Mystery Game, designed especially for Key Stage 2 learners! This exciting, curriculum-aligned resource challenges pupils to use their grammar, punctuation, and spelling skills to crack codes, solve clues, and uncover hidden Christmas mystery names. Perfect for the run-up to the Christmas holidays, this pack includes 4 different Christmas-themed missions, each containing 5 SPaG clues that must be solved to reveal the final answer. Children will love the engaging mystery format, while teachers will appreciate the purposeful SPaG practice embedded into every task. Ideal for whole-class lessons, small groups, homework, or festive filler activities Google Docs format Fun but still educational Supports UK National Curriculum objectives for KS2 English Great for building problem-solving, inference, and SPaG confidence Can your pupils solve all four Christmas mysteries? Let the festive clue-cracking begin!

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!

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.

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)

Word Classes Grammar SPAG SPAG Test Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Test Complete Practice Test for Year 6. http://www.zondle.com/marketplace/Default.aspx?id=28 Same format as DfE sample test.

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.

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.

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 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.

Over 60 Short daily sessions of grammar and punctuation. Editable Powerpoint presentation. Positive. Children enjoy doing grammar and punctuation. Commas Contractions Possessive apostrophes Speech marks Brackets Dashes Run-on sentences Differentiation