Teaching Resource
Capital Letter and Full Stop Scavenger Hunt Worksheet
A reading passage and 2 engaging worksheets that explore the importance of capital letters and full stops.
Use this teaching resource in the classroom when learning about punctuation and the importance of capital letters and full stops.
This literacy resource includes:
- a version of the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk for shared or guided reading
- a Full Stop and Capital Letter Scavenger Hunt worksheet
- a Hunt It and Fix It worksheet.
As a class, read Jack and The Beanstalk. Re-read the text, referring to the punctuation in the text.
When the students have secure knowledge and understanding of how and when to use capital letters and full stops, ask the student to complete the worksheets.
This resource could also be used as an assessment task at the end of a unit.
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NSW Curriculum alignment
- EN1-9B
Uses basic grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary appropriate to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELA190
Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commands
- VCELA225
Recognise that capital letters signal proper nouns and commas are used to separate items in lists
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELA1449
Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commandsElaborationsusing intonation and pauses in response to pu...
- ACELA1465
Recognise that capital letters signal proper nouns and commas are used to separate items in listsElaborationstalking about how a comma can be used to separate two or more elements in a list, for example âAt the museum they saw a tiger, a dinosau...

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