Primary English: Perfecting punctuation
Make punctuation lessons less painful with these engaging activities, games and displays
Whether pupils like it or not, understanding what each punctuation mark means and how to use it in a sentence is a crucial part of improving their writing. To help you overcome the groans at the mere mention of punctuation, we have picked a selection of resources that offer different ways to engage your class with this hard-to-sell topic.
Lesson ideas
Tackle the fundamentals with these easy-to-understand resources, packed full of examples so that pupils understand how to employ different types of punctuation.
SPaG Year 5 Punctuation: Parenthesis (brackets, dashes, commas) and commas to clarify meaning
Parenthesis: How brackets, dashes or commas can be used to indicate parenthesis.
Commas: Gives examples of what can happen if commas are omitted, and how they are important to the intended meaning.
Punctuation
Capital Letters and Full Stops
‘Capital Letters and Full Stops’ is a 30 slide PowerPoint teaching resource designed to help pupils develop their knowledge and understanding of capital letters and full stops.
‘Capital Letters and Full Stops’ teaches pupils how to identify capital letters and full stops in a piece of writing and how to use them effectively and accurately in their own work. The resource includes:
1. Capital letters and full stops - definitions with examples of each.
2. Understanding how capital letters and full stops aid clarification in a piece of writing.
3. Identifying capital letters and full stops in a range of sentences.
4. Correcting a range of sentences by inserting capital letters and full stops.
5. 30 slide PowerPoint presentation.
6. 5 accompanying worksheets to assess pupil understanding.
Displays and visual support
Brighten up your classroom with these colourful posters, which are ideal as quick, at-a-glance reminders for pupils during writing tasks.
Homophone and punctuation displays
Should I use an apostrophe?
Should I use a capital letter?
There, they're or their?
Two, to or too?
Where, wear or were?
These can be displayed around the room or given to pupils individually for ease of use and can all be easily edited if needed.
KS1 Punctuation Posters
Speech marks/punctuation reminder mat
Games and activities
You can’t go wrong with one of these fun challenges, designed to test your learners’ understanding and help build up their confidence.
Punctuation 'Follow Me' Loop Card Game/Quiz
Grammar and Punctuation version available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/grammar-and-punctuation-follow-me-game-11187356
Punctuation bingo
can be used with any ks2 class (or HAs in ks1) who are learning how to use punctuation. instructions are at the end of the document. Topics also included; sentence structure and punctuation.
Punctuation Pelmanism Game
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