Punctuation - a comprehensive set of worksheets

*** NEWLY UPDATED ***
Punctuation covered:
Capital letters and proper nouns
Capital letters and full stops (periods)*
- Punctuation - consolidation exercises
Sentence endings: exclamation marks and question marks
Commas*
- Punctuation - consolidation exercises
Apostrophes for contraction and omission*
Apostrophes for possession
Apostrophes - its and it’s
Direct speech - sentences
Direct speech - paragraphs
Indirect speech - sentences
Indirect speech - paragraphs
Parentheses - brackets*
Parentheses - dashes*
- Punctuation - consolidation exercises
Hyphens*
Semi colons*
Colons
Comma splices
- Punctuation - consolidation exercises

*includes entertaining video files

Having seen so, so many worksheets on punctuation, I finally decided to create this 25 page pack - based on cherry picking and then adapting the best ideas from countless text books and worksheets.
It covers a range of the punctuation used up to Year 6 and provides succinct definitions and plenty of varied practice for each topic.
Mastering punctuation is essentially practice, practice, practice… we all have able Year 6 children who simply forget basic capital letters and full stops (periods)! So these worksheets, a real labor of love, are designed to provide this essential practice.

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions, and a BIG BIG thanks for looking (as a full time practicing teacher, I KNOW how time consuming this process can be).

ALL my postings are FULLY “classroom-tested” - before I publish, my lessons are tested by both myself and colleagues, rigorously evaluated and discussed, and continually updated to maximize their effectiveness.
But there is always the possibility of error and room for improvement, so do please provide constructive feedback.

Teacher/Author: Barrie James
Keywords: punctuation capital letters proper nouns periods exclamation marks question marks commas apostrophes contraction omission possession direct speech indirect speech parentheses brackets dashes hyphens semi-colon colon its it’s