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.

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...
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
Spag Game Year 6 SATs
Donna Upton

Spag Game Year 6 SATs

£4.00
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SPAG Master is a game I use with Year 6 in the last few weeks before the SATs. You know how it feels - when you've done past paper after past paper and you still need to work on retrieval but you need some ENERGY! This is a quiz which involves partner work, team names and unlimited points and my c...

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
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