A paragraph for children to demarcate with appropriate punctuation and a correctly punctuated answer sheet on page 2, which can be used as a self-checking exercise. Useful for assessing which punctuation children can apply independently.
A set of sentences with conjunctions. Children are to spot the conjunction and replace it with a semi colon. Useful for teaching main clauses and recognising conjunctions in sentences. Can be easily extended when children have the idea by asking them to think of other sentences with 2 main clauses.
A set of 10 sentences for the children to decide if the punctuation for speech has been correctly applied. Can be easily extended into an activity where children correct the punctuation in the incorrect sentences.
2 resources. One set of sentences with missing contractions, which can be used for children to choose a suitable contraction to fit in the gap. The second resource is a list of contracted words which can be used as spelling cards, put onto a spinner or dice to make a match it game with the sentences or be used to write the oner form of the contraction or fit the contraction into a sentence of the children's own choice.
A set of sentences with missing hyphens. Can be printed out as cards or shrunk to make a worksheet. Other punctuation is taken out so it is also a useful activity to reinforce basic punctuation and can be used as a 'rewrite with the correct punctuation' type exercise.
A set of sentences with missing possessive apostrophes for both plural and singular possession. Also contains a sentence with the collective noun children to teach where to place the apostrophe when the noun is plural. Can easily be extended into children writing their own sentences or exploring other plural nouns. Sentences can be made into cards or shrunk easily to make a worksheet.
A set of singular nouns ending in y. Can be made into cards of shrunk into a worksheet. Useful for teaching children to apply the rule for pluralising nouns ending in consonant and y. Can also be used as a sorting activity for those where you would take off y and add ies and those where you would just add an s.
A set of sentences that can be easily adapted to make a worksheet or can be used as a runaround game to teach how to use I or me correctly in a sentence. Could be used in a hall where children have to run to the correct side of the room or hoops to show I or me. Or answers can be removed and it can be used as an assessment worksheet. Can be easily extended by asking children to come up with their own similar sentences to show how I and me are used correctly.
A set of sentences which ca be used in different ways. Can be used as a spinner game, where different types of punctuation are put on the spinner and children have to keep spinning until they have punctuated the sentence correctly. Or can be used as a game where children have to complete the missing punctuation and then run/bounce back to the teacher with their answer.
A week's worth of maths problems linked to the new curriculum arithmetic skills. 5 Word documents to be used on a whiteboard as an early morning activity or 15 minute activity.