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Free 6th Grade Punctuation Worksheets

6 free punctuation resources for 6th Grade: 6 worksheets. Answers included.

Capital letters, periods, commas, apostrophes and quotation marks. 6th grade consolidates primary math: operations with fractions and decimals, percentages, integers, order of operations and probability.

Students will practice: joining related sentences with a semicolon; introducing a list with a colon; adding extra information with parentheses; using a dash for emphasis or a sudden break; editing sentences for punctuation and capital letters; identifying appositives; setting off appositives with commas; telling essential and nonessential clauses apart.

Recommended learning path

  1. 1Semicolons, Colons, Parentheses, and Dashes
  2. 2Commas with Appositives and Nonessential Clauses
  3. 3Hyphens in Compound Adjectives and Numbers
  4. 46th Grade Possessive Apostrophes (the dog's bowl, the dogs' bowl) Worksheet — Level 1
  5. 56th Grade Possessive Apostrophes (the dog's bowl, the dogs' bowl) Worksheet — Level 2
  6. 66th Grade Possessive Apostrophes (the dog's bowl, the dogs' bowl) Worksheet — Level 3
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Worksheets

Printable practice with an answer sheet.

  • Worksheet

    Semicolons, Colons, Parentheses, and Dashes

    Students learn four punctuation marks that help writers connect and add ideas: semicolons to join closely related sentences, colons to…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    25 min
    Questions
    18 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Worksheet

    Commas with Appositives and Nonessential Clauses

    A 6th grade comma worksheet on extra information. Students learn that an appositive (a noun phrase that renames a noun) and a nonessential…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    25 min
    Questions
    17 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Worksheet

    Hyphens in Compound Adjectives and Numbers

    A 6th grade worksheet on the hyphen, the shortest joining mark. Students hyphenate compound adjectives that come before a noun (a…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    25 min
    Questions
    22 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Worksheet

    6th Grade Possessive Apostrophes (the dog's bowl, the dogs' bowl) Worksheet — Level 1

    Use an apostrophe to show who owns something: 's for one owner, s' for more than one, and 's for plurals like children's. Starts with the…

    Difficulty
    Level 1 · Easier
    Time
    10 min
    Questions
    10 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Worksheet

    6th Grade Possessive Apostrophes (the dog's bowl, the dogs' bowl) Worksheet — Level 2

    Use an apostrophe to show who owns something: 's for one owner, s' for more than one, and 's for plurals like children's. Expected-level…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    10 min
    Questions
    10 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Worksheet

    6th Grade Possessive Apostrophes (the dog's bowl, the dogs' bowl) Worksheet — Level 3

    Use an apostrophe to show who owns something: 's for one owner, s' for more than one, and 's for plurals like children's. A challenge set…

    Difficulty
    Level 3 · Challenge
    Time
    10 min
    Questions
    10 questions
    Answers
    Answers included

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Common questions

What do 6th Grade students learn about punctuation?

Capital letters, periods, commas, apostrophes and quotation marks. At 6th Grade, our resources focus on: joining related sentences with a semicolon; introducing a list with a colon; adding extra information with parentheses; using a dash for emphasis or a sudden break.

Where should we start?

Start with the Level 1 or Level 2 worksheet, then move up a level. Finish with the topic test if there is one.

Are answers included?

Yes — every worksheet has an answer sheet. Maths answer sheets show the working; English tasks include model answers or success criteria.

How to use these resources

  1. Do one grammar worksheet, then find the same feature in a book you're reading.
  2. Use the quiz at the end of a year level to check what's stuck.
  3. Apply the skill: edit a piece of your own writing for that feature.

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