Punctuation at KS2

Help your children achieve punctuation perfection with our KS2 teaching pack.

Featuring animated clips from Professor Punc and ideas and resources for the teaching of commas, colons, apostrophes, speech marks and parentheses, this pack will give your punctuation teaching a bit of pizazz!

What's included?

• 23 supporting resources
• includes introductory activities, main teaching points, plenaries, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks
• links to the curriculum.

What's inside?

Section 1: Punctuating direct speech (pages 1-15)

• Teaching ideas
• Dialogue difficulties – punctuating direct speech
• Look who’s talking! – turning scripts into narratives
• Direct or reported? – types of speech
• Who said what?
• Punctuation pitfalls – direct speech
• Rules of speech

Section 2: Possessive apostrophes (pages 16-23)

• Teaching ideas
• Professor Punc’s misplaced apostrophes
• Don’t be addled by apostrophes!

Section 3: Extending sentences: using commas beyond lists (pages 24-33)

• Teaching ideas
• Subject / object / verb cards
• Subordinating connectives discussion game
• Adverb acting
• Can I use commas to mark clauses?

Section 4: Extending sentences – inserting parentheses (pages 34-40)

• Teaching ideas
• Professor Punc’s parentheses!
• Punctuation for parentheses – a fan
• Don’t be puzzled by parentheses!
• Building complex sentences

Section 5a: Linking clauses with semi-colons (pages 41-51)

• Teaching ideas
• Clause confusion – using semi-colons
• Using semi-colons
• Semi-colons – right or wrong

Section 5b: Linking clauses with colons (pages 52-54)

• Teaching ideas
• Colon conundrums

Section 6: Keeping things ticking over (pages 55-62)

• Teaching ideas
• Punctuation fan
• Punctuation prowess
• Spelling, punctuation and grammar mistakes