Punctuation
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Capital letters | ||
Students practise using capital letters correctly. An ideal starter activity, with two alternative interactive tasks. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 15/04/2013 | |||
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Pick apart your punctuation | ||
Differentiate punctuation practice according to the needs of your class, or go the whole hog by giving students all the activities on speech marks, capitalisation, commas, apostrophes and plural spellings. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 26/10/2012 | |||
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Teachers TV video - Hard to teach punctuation | ||
A series of hands-on, interactive approaches to teaching punctuation. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 21/04/2010 | |||
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Speech in a bubble |
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Practise punctuating gory speech with this activity based on 'Jaws'. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 25/09/2009 | |||
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Changing meaning with commas | ||
How one little comma can make the world of difference! | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 14/12/2007 | |||
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Using commas |
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An interactive resource for exploring when and where commas are used. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 26/01/2007 | |||
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Commas in complex sentences | ||
A Smart Notebook lesson exploring how commas can be used to separate clauses and phrases and to change meanings. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 19/01/2007 | |||
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Direct speech | ||
Worksheet to consolidate direct speech skills with students at Level 4 and above. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 17/03/2006 | |||
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Possessive apostrophes | ||
Add an apostrophe to the correct place in each sentence. Includes teacher's copy. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 16/01/2006 | |||
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Apostrophe wars! |
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Fill in the missing apostrophes. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 05/11/2003 | |||
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Semi-colons and colons | ||
Presentation for teaching/recapping these punctuation marks. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 15/01/2003 | |||
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Sentence level work - run on sentences | ||
A short presentation on the perils of not punctuating! | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 30/10/2002 | |||
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Direct speech, mood and characterisation (NLS Y7) |
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A complete resource which uses extracts from Oliver Twist to explore these concepts. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 02/09/2002 | |||
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Punctuation practice: speech marks | ||
Rule reminder and practice tasks. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 06/08/2002 | |||
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Punctuation basics |
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A nice and useful overview. Could easily be blown up and used as a poster. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 01/08/2001 | |||
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Apostrophes | ||
Using apostrophes for omission and possession. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 01/06/2001 | |||
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Commas | ||
Using commas in lists and clauses. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 01/06/2001 | |||
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