Twelve short questions on capital letters and full stops for Year 1, set over four pages. The sentences use simple decodable words, such as The cat is on the mat and a duck can quack. Pupils circle the punctuation first, then tick the correct sentence from two options. After that they fix sentences with one mistake, then sentences with two. Last, they rewrite thefrogcanjump with finger spaces. Every answer is in the key. It follows England National Curriculum punctuation.
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Leaving spaces between words”
Question 12 asks pupils to split thefrogcanjump into four words.
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Beginning to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark”
Every question from 1 to 12 is about a capital at the start and a full stop at the end.
Pupils circle the capital and the full stop in three correct sentences, such as My pig is pink.
Three pairs, such as the sun is hot. and The sun is hot. Pupils tick the correct one.
Three sentences with one error each, such as A man has a hat, which needs a full stop.
a duck can quack and the pan is hot, each missing a capital and a full stop.
Pupils rewrite thefrogcanjump with spaces, a capital letter and a full stop.
Step by step
The sections get harder in order. Stop pupils after Fix the Sentence if they are not ready for two errors.
Phonics link
The words are all decodable, so pupils who are still early readers can do the sheet alone.
Marking together
Mark questions 7 to 11 as a class, with pupils calling out what each sentence was missing.
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