Finger Spaces and Full Stops

Year 1 EnglishGrammar and Punctuation3 pages

About this worksheet

Three short sections of sentence punctuation for Year 1, over three pages. Pupils rewrite thecatissleeping with finger spaces, a capital letter and a full stop. Next they use and to join an apple and a banana, and a dog and a cat, from picture prompts. Last, a box lists the capital letter rules for names, places, days and I. Pupils then fix i saw ben on monday and turn can we go to london into a question. There is no answer key. It covers England National Curriculum punctuation.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œLeaving spaces between wordsโ€

Section 1 asks pupils to split thecatissleeping into four words.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œJoining words and joining clauses using andโ€

The Magic Word 'and' has pupils join two things in each picture cell with and.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œBeginning to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation markโ€

Both sentences in Section 3 need a capital, and can we go to london needs a question mark.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œUsing a capital letter for names of people, places, the days of the week, and the personal pronoun 'I'โ€

Question 1 needs capitals for i, ben and monday, and question 2 needs one for london.

What's inside this worksheet

Finger Spaces and Full Stops

Pupils rewrite thecatissleeping as a correct sentence.

The Magic Word 'and'

Two picture cells, an apple and a banana and a dog and a cat, for pupils to write with and.

Capital Letter Detectives

A rule box with Sarah, London and Monday as examples, then two sentences to fix.

How teachers use it

Punctuation lesson

Model Section 1 on the board with a different squashed sentence, then let pupils try thecatissleeping.

Detective game

Read i saw ben on monday aloud and ask pupils to stand up at each word that needs a capital.

Mixed-ability groups

Pupils who find writing hard can do Sections 1 and 2. Others can go on to the Capital Letter Detectives.

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