A set of sentences for children to read and identify whether they are statements, questions or commands. Also the punctuation is missing, so it can be used as an assessment tool for children to rewrite the sentences with correct punctuation and identify the type of sentence. Include polite commands and commands which do not start with imperative verbs. Alongside this there are also sentences which are questions that don't start with question words. Can be easily shrunk to make a worksheet or made into cards.
A set of sentences with either whose or who's missing for children to identify which homophone is correct. Can be easily shrunk to make a worksheet or made into cards for a spinner/dice activity. Can also be used as a whole class activity form an interactive whiteboard.
A worksheet where children have to decide whether it is more appropriate to use a semi colon to separate the items in a listed sentence or whether a comma is needed.
A set of sentences on a worksheet to reinforce how to use semi-colons in place of conjunctions. Can be used as a worksheet in class or a homework/assessment activity. Teaches children to recognise conjunctions and replace them with semi-colons when the 2 parts of the sentence are both main clauses.
A set of cards which can be used in lots of different ways. Can be cut up and made into cards to play snap. Can be made into a feely box game where children pick a card and write another homophone. Can be used as a game where children have to describe to each other what they word means and then their partner has to write the homophone etc.
A power point on using inverted commas correctly and the rules for setting out speech. An activity follows where children have to predict whether speech sentences are correctly punctuated.
A series of sentences what can be shrunk to make a worksheet or printed to make a hunt/feely box game. Children have to read the sentences and work out which word/s are adjectives or whether the sentence has an adjectival phrase. Can be used as a sorting game and developed for children to think of sentences which adjectival phrases themselves.
A worksheet/hunt/oral game for identifying how many missing capitals there are in a sentence. Can be used in a number of ways. A separate answer sheet with how many capitals are missing for each sentence that children can use to self-check their work.
A list of different conjunctions and the category they come in. Can be made into a classroom display (I have mine on pieces of paper that are shaped like jigsaw puzzle pieces. Covers time, location, summing up and comping and contrasting conjunctions.
A set of sentences both simple and complex. Can be used as a sorting activity or to look at punctuation using commas. I have used it as both and then asked children to simplify the complex sentences and add a clause to the simple sentences to make them complex. Can be shrunk easily to make a worksheet or made into cards or used on an interactive whiteboard.