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