Punctuation resources

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

Students read a boy's description of himself, identify the places in which capital letters have been omitted for proper nouns, and insert these.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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