Primary English: Perfecting punctuation

Hand-picked lessons, visual aids and games to help primary pupils perfect their use of punctuation

Tes Resources Team

Brackets, Speech Marks, Exclamation Mark & Question Mark To Illustrate Punctuation For Primary School

Explore these engaging activities, games and workbooks for primary punctuation

SPaG is a key part of the primary English curriculum and perfecting your pupils' punctuation is a crucial part of improving writing. So, to help your pupils get to grips with different types of punctuation and how to use them in sentences, we have hand-picked a selection of resources that offer different ways to engage your class.

Lessons, activities and worksheets

SATS English Revision: Punctuation
Krazikas

SATS English Revision: Punctuation

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This resource contains a set of 156 SATS style questions (25 pages) on all aspects of punctuation. It is an ideal SATS practice resource and also a useful assessment tool to identify what pupils have achieved and what they need to work on in punctuation. A pupil assessment sheet is also included. Th...
Full Stops and Capital Letters
FullShelf

Full Stops and Capital Letters

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Key Stage 2 (KS2) Literacy / SPaG revision activities to use when recapping the basics of what makes a sentence to help students work out where to put full stops and capital letters. This grammar and punctuation (SPaG) activity provides revision of punctuating sentences with full stops and capital l...
SIMPLY PUNCTUATION BOOK 1
Lynn Lettice

SIMPLY PUNCTUATION BOOK 1

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The three books in this graded series will help children who struggle with punctuation and need extra practice. The series deals with punctuation basics using a very simple, straightforward format. The books include the kind of tasks that children enjoy, such as multiple choice and editing. The w...
Punctuation Mark Matching Activity | Differentiated
Helen-Teach

Punctuation Mark Matching Activity | Differentiated

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A punctuation mark matching activity with three levels of differentiation. Pupils match each card showing a punctuation mark symbol with an explanation of its use and an example sentence or sentences. An answer sheet is included. This activity helps pupils to remember the names of punctuation ma...
SPaG Activities Proofreading Worksheets
FullShelf

SPaG Activities Proofreading Worksheets

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Fun Literacy and English revision activities! Proofreading or editing practice is made enjoyable with these **6 Upper Key Stage 2 or Early KS3 (KS2 / KS3) SPaG revision puzzles worksheets** - spelling, punctuation and grammar activities designed for Year 5, 6 and 7 Literacy or English lessons. ***PD...
Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar SpaG Worksheet Mats
Teach Trends

Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar SpaG Worksheet Mats

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These SPaG activity worksheets are sure to improve the skills of your pupils. Ideal when used for retrieval practice, as a starter or plenary in your lesson - or even as part of homework. This resource includes 8 activity worksheets, each with 6 different activities. Activities include some of the ...
Direct Speech - Year 3 and 4
Online_Teaching_Resources

Direct Speech - Year 3 and 4

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Direct Speech - Year 3 and 4 Lower KS2 English Teaching Resource In this English punctuation teaching resource, pupils practise recognising, writing and punctuating direct speech as per the curriculum objectives of the Year 3 and 4 programme of study (Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation...

Games

Punctuation 'Follow Me' Loop Card Game/Quiz
Primary Class

Punctuation 'Follow Me' Loop Card Game/Quiz

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Colour coded for 3 levels of difficulty. Examples for each that can be used as hints . Grammar and Punctuation version available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/grammar-and-punctuation-follow-me-game-11187356
Punctuation Pelmanism Game
Helen Rachel Crossley

Punctuation Pelmanism Game

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Punctuation Pelmanism Game: A series of 20 cards featuring punctuation marks and their names. Take it in turns to turn over the cards and try to find matching pairs. For more Outstanding Resources for Outstanding Teachers, please visit my website www.teachersvault.co.uk

Visual aids and displays

Punctuation Display Cards
rjb0305

Punctuation Display Cards

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13 colourful chevron themed punctuation flashcards - ideal for a quick and easy display board! The file contains cards on: full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, question marks, commas, hyphens, brackets, apostrophes, speech marks, colons and semicolons.
Punctuation cards
kaleigh_bligh

Punctuation cards

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Handy punctuation support cards with an explanation of what each one is and an example to support children within their writing. I used the font 'balonku' from dafont.com
Punctuation Definitions A4 Display
poetryessay

Punctuation Definitions A4 Display

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This punctuation display presents simplified definitions of all the key punctuation marks, which can be printed on separate sheets of A4 paper. English students are expected to be familiar with all of these punctuation marks and this makes their task easier. The punctuation definitions work particul...
KS1 Grammar and Punctuation Posters
Megan Ross

KS1 Grammar and Punctuation Posters

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Posters to display on English display. I print these onto coloured paper and laminate. Includes: Capital letters Verbs Adjectives Nouns Adverbs Conjunctions Full stop Comma Question Mark Exclamation Mark Inverted Commas