"Roll your mouse over the punctuation mark to find out its name and how it's used."
If you're not too sure the wise old owl will tell you! How do I know he's old? Look at his eyebrows...
Learn about sentences and punctuate the texts.
ACTIVITY
ACTIVITY
Raise your awareness of punctuation. Check through a few recent comments... Are capital letters and full stops missing?
CAPITAL LETTERS AND FULL STOPS
Zara and Zed are missing some capital letters! Can you help them out?
Help the fairy change these lowercase letters to capitals.
Meet Dewi. He's sad because he's missing a capital letter!
Use these snails to complete the sentences - add the missing full stops.
QUESTION MARKS
Here's the friendly little turtle. Does he need your help? Yes he does!
Rewrite these statements as questions. Don't forget the question mark!
COMMAS
Read the sentences. When you hear a slight pause, insert a comma.
Another interesting powerpoint on commas and their usage.
You're a reporter working for the local newspaper. It's just as well you know how to use commas!
SPEECH MARKS
Practise adding speech marks to these sentences.
The title says it all...
APOSTROPHES
Use an apostrophe to form contractions in the phrases.
Visit the above site and choose from four fun contraction games.
Can you correctly pair up the words and their contractions?
Write the words in shortened form.
Can you write these shortened words in full?
Read along, play the game and you'll be an apostrophe ace!
REVIEW
Splat the correct punctuation onto the teacher's chalkboard!
Use your sleuthing abilities and crack these sentences.
Correct the punctuation and check that the sentences make sense.
DOES IT MAKE SENSE?
Which sentence sounds right?
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