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Everyday Grammar Punctuation Warm Ups - Upper Years Interactive PowerPoint
An engaging 44 slide interactive PowerPoint to use in the upper years classroom when learning about grammar and punctuation.
Use this interactive PowerPoint Presentation as a teaching resource in the classroom when learning about grammar and punctuation.
Use these punctuation warm up questions when teaching students the correct use of:
- capital letters
- full stops
- question marks
- exclamation marks
- quotation marks
- apostrophes of contraction
- commas to separate clauses
- apostrophes of possession.
As a class, work your way through the 20 problems presented on the 44 slides.
Students choose the correct answer from an option of four. When they select the incorrect answer, the PowerPoint will ‘buzz’, when they select the correct answer, the PowerPoint will ‘chime’ and transition to the answer slide.
Use the answer slide for student sharing and additional learning opportunities.
To activate the interactive functions on this PowerPoint, ensure that you have ‘enabled editing’ and are viewing the PowerPoint as a ‘Slide Show’.
Implement this interactive PowerPoint as a warm up prior to lessons, or as a daily revision when concluding a lesson.
Add new slides and create your own class questions and answers using the editable function on the PowerPoint.
Please note that this PowerPoint is a large file and may take extra time to download.
NSW Curriculum alignment
- EN3-6B
Uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies
Victorian Curriculum alignment
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELA1506
Understand how the grammatical category of possessives is signalled through apostrophes and how to use apostrophes with common and proper nounsElaborationslearning that in Standard Australian English regular plural nouns ending in ‘s’ for...
- ACELA1521
Understand the uses of commas to separate clausesElaborationsidentifying different uses of commas in texts (Skills: Literacy)(View this topic on www.australiancurriculum.edu.au )

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Fixed Question 10 to remove apostrophes of contraction.
Fix by Kristian Oct 17th, 2018
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I cannot open either. I have tried saving with no luck either. I am finding this is happening with a lot of the powerpoints.
vanessa flint · Dec 31st, 2020
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Janeen · Jan 4th, 2021
Sorry It could be me, but I was unable to download this document.
LOUELLA LODEWYK · Jun 17th, 2020
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Paul (Teach Starter) · Jun 22nd, 2020
How do you reset the answers in this? When I downloaded it, about half of the questions were already answered.
Michael White · Mar 22nd, 2020
Hi Michael,
Just make sure that you are viewing the presentation as a slideshow. If you’re viewing it in the working mode, you will see the answers.
Let us know if we can be of further assistance.
Paul (Teach Starter) · Mar 23rd, 2020
I cannot seem to open this. It keeps saying there is an error and that the file needs repairing
Brooke McConnell · Feb 6th, 2020
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When you click the Download button on the resource page, please select the ‘Save’ option from the dialogue box that appears, and save the file to your Documents or Desktop. From there, you should be able to open the file successfully.
Please let me know if I can assist further at all.
Tom (Teach Starter) · Feb 7th, 2020