Punctuation Exercises for Full Stops and Capital Letters Basic 1

by melaniewp | Apr 7, 2013 | Capital Letters, Commas, Complex Sentences, Full Stops, GCSE, Grammar, KS2, KS3, Punctuation, Punctuation Exercises, Simple Sentences

Here are some fun sentences to teach the correct use of full stops – and capital letters.For What Age? 8-16Difficulty: increases gradually. If the first section looks stupidly easy (to them), skip to something that just looks ‘fairly easy’...

Teaching Kids to Use Full Stops and Commas

by melaniewp | Apr 6, 2013 | Commas, Full Stops, Grammar, KS2, KS3, Punctuation

ATeacherWrites.com + Get all Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Resources hereTeachers will usually correct some punctuation. But they don’t have time to pick out the billion or so errors that they will encounter in the average week. This one’s down to...

Rules of Full Stops, Complex and Simple Sentences, Main Clauses and Sub-Clauses

by melaniewp | Apr 5, 2013 | Commas, Complex Sentences, Full Stops, Grammar, KS2, KS3, Main Clauses, Punctuation, Simple Sentences, Sub-Clauses

Full stops are used at the end of a sentence. Here are some examples:1. The dog chased the ball. [simple sentence]2. The dog chased the ball across the park. [simple sentence] 3. Quickly, with its tongue hanging out, the dog chased the ball across the park and...

Complex Sentences: Different Ways to Start, Creative Writing IGCSE Coursework and Controlled Assessment GCSE

by melaniewp | Apr 3, 2013 | 11+, Common Entrance, GCSE, Grammar, IGCSE, KS2, KS3, Punctuation, Writing

Here are some examples of different ways to start sentences, grouped into categories.Placee.g. Among the trees, amber light glittered, softly.Beneath the ice, pike lurked.Inside the room was nothing but dust.Outside the town, dull sweeps of green spread into the...

Writing Stories, More Interesting Vocabulary, Describing Words

by melaniewp | Apr 1, 2013 | 11+, Common Entrance, Creative Writing, Describing Words, GCSE, IGCSE, KS2, KS3, SATs KS2, Sensory Language, Verbs, Vocabulary, Writing

If you want to write a story with more interesting description, try this – from age 8 to age 18. Sometimes a thesaurus is too big, too hard to use and you don’t know what word you’re looking for anyway. This sheet is for inspiration for stories....

Apostrophe Exercises

by melaniewp | Mar 29, 2013 | 11+, Apostrophes, Common Entrance, GCSE, Grammar, KS2, KS3, Punctuation, Punctuation Exercises

Here are some basic exercises to help with learning the possessive ‘s apostrophe:1. Punctuate the examples, including full stops, capitals and apostrophes;2. Then re-write them into the format the [____] of [____], e.g.The world’s end came as a...