by melaniewp | Mar 7, 2013 | 0 FOR KIDS, GCSE, KS3, Punctuation, Speech Punctuation, Trouble Shooting
ATeacherWrites.comThis is how to write speech (dialogue) in stories, assuming you’ve mastered the basics of speech punctuation:1. For elegance, use ‘said’ NOT ‘mumbled’, ‘yelped’, ‘shrieked’,...
by melaniewp | Mar 4, 2013 | 0 FOR KIDS, 11 plus, Age 12-16, Common Entrance, GCSE, KS2, KS3, Punctuation, SATs KS2
A good way to ‘teach’ the rules is to get your child to do an investigation of the books on their shelf then write their own rules. Check what they wrote against this:The Rules of Speech1. Indent paragraphs as shown in the picture (above) with the pink...
by melaniewp | Mar 3, 2013 | 0 FOR KIDS, 11 plus, Age 12-16, Common Entrance, GCSE, Grammar, KS2, KS3, Punctuation, SATs KS2, Semi-colon
Before we start, a semi-colon isn’t used to start a list! The thing you need for that is a colon (:). Correct UsageSemi-colons are used to join complete sentences. In this sense, they’re like connectives.e.g. I went home and had a bath.I went home; I had a...
