teaching resource

Punctuation Sentence Challenge Worksheet

  • Updated

    Updated:  16 Nov 2018

A teaching resource to help consolidate the students’ knowledge of punctuation.

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  1 Page

  • Curriculum
  • Years

    Years:  1 - 6

Curriculum

  • VC2E1LA10

    Understand that written language uses punctuation such as full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, and uses capital letters for proper nouns <ul> <li>using intonation and pauses in response to punctuation, when reading</li> <li>identifying different sentence boundary punctuation, when reading</li> <li>writing different types of sentences (for example, statements and questions) and discussing appropriate punctuation</li> <li>identifying and using capital letters to name places and cultural festivals and holidays</li> </ul>

  • VC2E2LA10

    Recognise that capital letters are used in titles and commas are used to separate items in lists <ul> <li>identifying how capital letters are used in the titles of texts</li> <li>identifying commas used in lists in a variety of types of texts, for example ‘This class has students who speak Vietnamese, Thai and Arabic at home.’</li> </ul>

  • VC2E3LA12

    Understand that apostrophes signal missing letters in contractions, and how apostrophes are used to show singular and plural possession in regular and irregular nouns <ul> <li>using apostrophes to create contractions; for example, ‘do not’ becomes ‘don’t’, ‘will not’ becomes ‘won’t’ and ‘of the clock’ becomes ‘o’clock’</li> <li>using apostrophes to show singular possession, for example ‘my friend’s book’ and ‘the princess’s shoe’</li> <li>using apostrophes to show plural possession, for example ‘the bees’ hive’ and ‘the princesses’ shoes’</li> <li>using apostrophes to show plural possessions in irregular nouns, for example ‘the children’s shoes’ and ‘the mice’s cheese’</li> </ul>

  • VC2E4LA11

    Understand that punctuation signals dialogue through quotation marks and that dialogue follows conventions for the use of capital letters, commas and boundary punctuation <ul> <li>identifying the use of quotation marks, capital letters, commas and boundary punctuation to signal dialogue in texts</li> <li>using punctuated dialogue in their own writing</li> </ul>

  • VC2E5LA09

    Understand how to use commas to indicate prepositional phrases, and how to use apostrophes where there is multiple possession in regular and irregular nouns <ul> <li>learning that in Standard Australian English, regular plural nouns ending in ‘s’ form the possessive by adding just the apostrophe, for example ‘the students’ classroom’</li> <li>learning that in Standard Australian English, for proper nouns the regular possessive form is always possible but a variant form without the second ‘s’ is sometimes found, for example ‘James’s house’ or ‘James’ house’</li> <li>learning that when there is more than one owner, the apostrophe is usually used for the last owner in the list, for example ‘the cat and kitten’s bowls’</li> <li>using commas to signal a prepositional phrase, for example ‘On Saturday, before it rained, we went to the beach.’</li> </ul>

  • VC2E6LA09

    Understand how to use commas to separate a dependent clause from an independent clause <ul> <li>identifying different uses of commas, such as commas and conjunctions between independent clauses in compound sentences</li> </ul>

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teaching resource

Punctuation Sentence Challenge Worksheet

  • Updated

    Updated:  16 Nov 2018

A teaching resource to help consolidate the students’ knowledge of punctuation.

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  1 Page

  • Curriculum
  • Years

    Years:  1 - 6

A teaching resource to help consolidate the students’ knowledge of punctuation.

This teaching resource, Punctuation Sentence Challenge is a diversely used classroom worksheet to suit your classroom learning while keeping punctuation knowledge and practise relevant to your students. As this worksheet is an open activity, it will encourage and challenge diverse learning levels in your classroom. Students love the challenge of planning key words and using them to create interesting sentences. With support, this worksheet can also be used for activities in lower primary years.

Student get a chance to implement the following punctuation

  • Capital Letters
  • Full Stops
  • Commas
  • Question Marks
  • Exclamation Marks
  • Apostrophes
  • Speech Marks
  • Colon
  • Semi colon
  • Ellipses
  • Brackets

In your classroom you can brainstorm a weekly topic focus, or integrate using the topics that your classroom is already learning. Brainstorm how key ideas from your topic can link to your focus punctuation. Once you have set the focus for the activity, get students to highlight their focus punctuation in the tabs down the bottom.  Students are recommended 10 to 15 minutes to craft a paragraph and incorporate the focus punctuation types that are your classrooms is using. After students have written and are at their editing stage, they need to highlight their punctuation and add in any more they feel is missing. The more regular practise students have with this activity, the more fluent and aware they become at implementing punctuation in their classroom writing.

Curriculum

  • VC2E1LA10

    Understand that written language uses punctuation such as full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, and uses capital letters for proper nouns <ul> <li>using intonation and pauses in response to punctuation, when reading</li> <li>identifying different sentence boundary punctuation, when reading</li> <li>writing different types of sentences (for example, statements and questions) and discussing appropriate punctuation</li> <li>identifying and using capital letters to name places and cultural festivals and holidays</li> </ul>

  • VC2E2LA10

    Recognise that capital letters are used in titles and commas are used to separate items in lists <ul> <li>identifying how capital letters are used in the titles of texts</li> <li>identifying commas used in lists in a variety of types of texts, for example ‘This class has students who speak Vietnamese, Thai and Arabic at home.’</li> </ul>

  • VC2E3LA12

    Understand that apostrophes signal missing letters in contractions, and how apostrophes are used to show singular and plural possession in regular and irregular nouns <ul> <li>using apostrophes to create contractions; for example, ‘do not’ becomes ‘don’t’, ‘will not’ becomes ‘won’t’ and ‘of the clock’ becomes ‘o’clock’</li> <li>using apostrophes to show singular possession, for example ‘my friend’s book’ and ‘the princess’s shoe’</li> <li>using apostrophes to show plural possession, for example ‘the bees’ hive’ and ‘the princesses’ shoes’</li> <li>using apostrophes to show plural possessions in irregular nouns, for example ‘the children’s shoes’ and ‘the mice’s cheese’</li> </ul>

  • VC2E4LA11

    Understand that punctuation signals dialogue through quotation marks and that dialogue follows conventions for the use of capital letters, commas and boundary punctuation <ul> <li>identifying the use of quotation marks, capital letters, commas and boundary punctuation to signal dialogue in texts</li> <li>using punctuated dialogue in their own writing</li> </ul>

  • VC2E5LA09

    Understand how to use commas to indicate prepositional phrases, and how to use apostrophes where there is multiple possession in regular and irregular nouns <ul> <li>learning that in Standard Australian English, regular plural nouns ending in ‘s’ form the possessive by adding just the apostrophe, for example ‘the students’ classroom’</li> <li>learning that in Standard Australian English, for proper nouns the regular possessive form is always possible but a variant form without the second ‘s’ is sometimes found, for example ‘James’s house’ or ‘James’ house’</li> <li>learning that when there is more than one owner, the apostrophe is usually used for the last owner in the list, for example ‘the cat and kitten’s bowls’</li> <li>using commas to signal a prepositional phrase, for example ‘On Saturday, before it rained, we went to the beach.’</li> </ul>

  • VC2E6LA09

    Understand how to use commas to separate a dependent clause from an independent clause <ul> <li>identifying different uses of commas, such as commas and conjunctions between independent clauses in compound sentences</li> </ul>

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