Punctuation resources

This punctuation resource is on the use of brackets. Students explain when brackets are used, then insert them into four sentences.

This task assesses the initial knowledge and understanding associated with correct use of speech marks for direct speech, i.e., identifying the words spoken. Students are required to identify the words spoken in four sentences by recording them in speech bubbles.

Students fill in speech bubbles from direct speech in sentences. The purpose of this activity is to assess students' ability to identify the words actually spoken.

This assessment task has students writing a short conversation between friends, using speech marks that have been modelled in the task.

The focus of this resource is selecting the appropriate punctuation to end sentences. The resource ends with a shared activity where students write some sentences about themselves, share them with a partner, and give each other feedback on their punctuation.

Students read a letter written to the Board of Trustees, and make it more formal by writing the contractions as full words.

This task assesses the initial understanding needed to punctuate direct speech, by asking students to re-write words in speech bubbles as direct speech and insert the necessary punctuation.

This focus of this resource is punctuating direct speech. Students drag speech marks into place to show where direct speech begins and ends. The resource ends with a collaborative writing activity. Students work with a partner to create and punctuate a conversation based on the characters in a photograph.

This focus of this resource is punctuating direct speech. Students drag speech marks, commas, and full stops into place to show where direct speech begins and ends. The resource ends with a collaborative writing activity. Students work with a partner to create and punctuate a conversation based on the characters in a photograph.

Students are given an example of ordering adjectives in an advertisement. They use this example to develop a list of adjectives that they order as they create their own advertisement .

This task has students writing about themselves. Assessment focus: the use of capitals.

Students complete sentences by adding a given noun or pronoun and using an apostrophe as required.

Students identify phrases within sentences which provide additional information, and enclose these phrases using commas.

Students expand common contractions to their full form, then write the contracted forms of other common two-word phrases.

Students make choices about which adjectives to use to create a poem about a school of fish. A video clip provides the stimulus for this task.

This is a resource on sentence types. Students use four definitions of sentence types to classify six sentences.

This task assesses the understanding needed to punctuate direct speech by asking students to re-write words in speech bubbles as direct speech.

This task assesses students' understanding of the conventions surrounding the use of apostrophes to indicate ownership. Students are required to read a short story and insert apostrophes in the places they are needed.

Students use a video clip as the stimulus for completing a poem. Scaffolds are provided for this process.

Students are asked to read a short story and to insert the speech marks required to punctuate the direct speech in the story.

A letter without capitals is the context of this punctuation assessment. Students insert capitals for a number of different purposes.

This task assesses students' ability to discriminate between the use of full stops, exclamation marks, and question marks by asking them to read a letter and insert the appropriate punctuation at the end of each sentence.

Students are asked to read a short story and to insert the commas and speech marks required to indicate the direct speech in the story.

This punctuation resource has a focus on colons and semi-colons. Students insert colons into sentences and demonstrate their knowledge of differences between colons and semi-colons.

The assessment focus is punctuation with students inserting commas and speech marks into text.