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 students' understanding of the use of capital letters in titles by asking them to put capital letters in 11 TV programme titles.

The main focus of this task is punctuation. Students will read Janine's email to her new pen pal and insert eight question marks in the correct places.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 required to add speech marks to a text.

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 identify and insert the missing capital letters for proper nouns in a letter.

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 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.

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 add commas to enclose words or phrases within sentences to show where extra information has been added.

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.