Primary English: Perfecting punctuation
18th October 2017
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.
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SPaG Year 5 Punctuation: Parenthesis (brackets, dashes, commas) and commas to clarify meaning
This pack contains 2 powerpoint lessons:
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.
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.
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Punctuation
The punctuation powerpoint is a great introduction to the what punctuation is. There is points where pupils get the chance to copy whats on screen and add the punctuation after it has been shown on screen.
This covers Capital Letters, Full Stops, Question Marks, Exclamation Marks, Commas, and Apostrophes.
The worksheet can be used in a follow up lesson as a refresher.
This is aimed at KS2 but this could be used for lower end of KS3.
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Year 6 Grammar and Punctuation Support
A PPT to help deliver Grammar and Punctuation in English lessons.
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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.
'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.
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Homophone and punctuation displays
A series of five flowchart displays / posters to make it easy for pupils to understand basic grammar and punctuation. Each flowchart allows students to easily work out either which form of a word they should use or whether they should punctuate their work in a certain way. The five flowcharts are:
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.
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.
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KS1 Punctuation Posters
Five posters illustrating simple punctuation marks with a few examples of their uses.
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Punctuation Personalities with Bonus Writing Challenges
Set of A4 posters featuring Punctuation Monsters and a description of their personalities (based on the relevant punctuation mark).
Includes:
- Apostrophe
- Inverted Commas
- Comma
- Square Brackets
- Curvy Brackets
- Hyphen
- Ellipsis
- Slash
- Full Stop
- Colon
- Semicolon
- Exclamation Mark
- Question Mark
*******Bonus Writing Challenges included***********
For a limited time now includes a set of bonus writing challenges:
Unit 1: Module 2: I Can Write Sentences with the Capital Personal Pronoun 'I'
Ten challenges featuring 'unpunctuated' sentences to rewrite along with a relevant creative challenge.
Also includes guidance for teachers, a sentence check sheet for peer supported learning and challenges on an editable powerpoint that can be used for class challenges and demonstrating solutions.
More punctuation and writing resources can be found here.
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Includes:
- Apostrophe
- Inverted Commas
- Comma
- Square Brackets
- Curvy Brackets
- Hyphen
- Ellipsis
- Slash
- Full Stop
- Colon
- Semicolon
- Exclamation Mark
- Question Mark
*******Bonus Writing Challenges included***********
For a limited time now includes a set of bonus writing challenges:
Unit 1: Module 2: I Can Write Sentences with the Capital Personal Pronoun 'I'
Ten challenges featuring 'unpunctuated' sentences to rewrite along with a relevant creative challenge.
Also includes guidance for teachers, a sentence check sheet for peer supported learning and challenges on an editable powerpoint that can be used for class challenges and demonstrating solutions.
More punctuation and writing resources can be found here.
Please follow me for future updates.
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Speech marks/punctuation reminder mat
Great sheet that can be used as a display or as a table prompt, to remind the children about the rules with speech and punctuation.
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.
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Punctuation Face
Visual aid to encourage children to use punctuation and to independently move onto higher level punctuations. The aim is to complete the face - can be simplified for KS1.
Provide children with laminated circles that they can punctuate at the end or during a writing task.
Alternatively, children may draw a face at the end/top of their writing page and punctuate during or the end of the task.
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Punctuation 'Follow Me' Loop Card Game/Quiz
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
Grammar and Punctuation version available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/grammar-and-punctuation-follow-me-game-11187356
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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.
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Punctuation Pelmanism Game
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.
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