Punctuation resources

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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