14 free punctuation resources. Capital letters, full stops, commas, apostrophes and speech marks. Typically taught from Year 1 to Year 8.
Children learn the two most important sentence rules: start with a capital letter and end with a full stop. They pick the correctly…
Children learn to tell a question from a statement and to end questions with a question mark. They sort sentences, add the right end mark,…
Children learn to separate the items in a list with commas, with 'and' before the last item. They pick the correctly punctuated sentence,…
Students learn to punctuate what people say: speech marks around the spoken words, a capital letter to start the speech, and a comma,…
Students revise commas in lists and learn three more uses: after an opening phrase, around a person's name when speaking to them, and…
Students learn that a contraction squeezes two words into one, with an apostrophe marking where letters have been left out. They form…
Explains the two jobs an apostrophe does: showing that letters are missing (contractions) and showing that something belongs to someone…
Students learn to use an apostrophe to show that something belongs to someone: 's for one owner, s' for more than one owner ending in s,…
Students sharpen their apostrophe use with the cases that cause the most errors: plurals that do not own anything (no apostrophe), plural…
Students learn where commas go in longer sentences: after an opening subordinate clause, around extra information (such as 'my aunt, who…
Students meet two punctuation marks that make writing more sophisticated: the semicolon, which joins two closely related complete…
A full review of the punctuation students are expected to control by the start of high school: apostrophes for contraction and possession,…
A focused review of the two punctuation marks that cause the most errors in Year 8 writing. Students revise apostrophes for contraction…
Students move beyond correctness to using punctuation deliberately. They learn how a colon sets up an explanation or list, how a dash (or…