Thursday, March 24, 2011

Punctuation

PUNCTUATION MARKS

THE PUNCTUATION PYRAMID
"Roll your mouse over the punctuation mark to find out its name and how it's used."



WHAT IS A SENTENCE?
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

Raise your awareness of punctuation.  Check through a few recent comments...  Are capital letters and full stops missing?




CAPITAL LETTERS AND FULL STOPS

CAPITAL LETTER GAMES
Zara and Zed are missing some capital letters!  Can you help them out?



MAGICAL CAPITALS
Help the fairy change these lowercase letters to capitals.



Meet Dewi.  He's sad because he's missing a capital letter!



Type directly into the text box and correct those mistakes!



FULL STOP GAMES
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

COMMA POWERPOINT
Read the sentences.  When you hear a slight pause, insert a comma.  



COMMA POWERPOINT II
Another interesting powerpoint on commas and their usage.



OFFICE WORKER
You're a reporter working for the local newspaper.  It's just as well you know how to use commas!




SPEECH MARKS


SPEECH MARKS
Practise adding speech marks to these sentences.



DON'T USE SAID
The title says it all...




APOSTROPHES

APOSTROPHES
Use an apostrophe to form contractions in the phrases.



CONTRACTIONS
Visit the above site and choose from four fun contraction games.



MATCH THE CONTRACTION
Can you correctly pair up the words and their contractions?



APOSTROPHES 1*
Write the words in shortened form.



REVERSE IT ALL!
Can you write these shortened words in full?



APOSTROPHES FOR CONTRACTION AND POSSESSION
Read along, play the game and you'll be an apostrophe ace!




REVIEW

Splat the correct punctuation onto the teacher's chalkboard!



COMMA CHAMELEON
Those aren't flies!  They're punctuation marks and they need sorting out.



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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