Punctuation really gains in importance as students’ progress through their studies. If you do not have a lot of experience teaching punctuation or are simply looking for creative ways to include it in your lessons, Busy Teacher has 40 worksheets that can help you. For instance, to review the rules of comma placement, take a look at this punctuation worksheet which you can use to structure one of your lessons or as a handy review sheet for students. If commas are not what you are interested in, browse the section for a free, printable worksheet that focuses on your target material.
Punctuation is often overlooked in ESL courses.
With beginners and even intermediate learners, structures are often too simple to really require special punctuation lessons but students should be made aware of the importance of punctuation early on. You can include short reviews on punctuation in your lessons to help students keep it in mind. For a lot of learners speaking is the most significant aspect of learning a language but writing and punctuation are important too especially for students who may have to write in English. Plan to devote some extra time to punctuation when teaching advanced learners and business students.
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Incorrect use of commas in direct address is a common error committed by students and adults alike. This poster/handout depicts the concept pictorially. It will help learners understand that the u ...
This printable poster/handout reinforces the concept of using apostrophes in contractions. It covers common error pairs such as its/it's, your/you're, and they're/there among others. You can print ...
This is a useful tool to help with any writing assignment. Planning writing explained. I have used it with my Literacy and with my ESOL learmers with excellent results. It has helped to provide s ...
This handout can be a poster about apostrophe s and apostrophe d. It can be used when you explain the difference between the two apostrophes, especially the difference between had and would in 'd ...
Punctuation for ages 9 to 12 years (grades 3 to 6) Begins with the short story as example of how to use punctuation. Includes punctuating sentences and direct speech. Can be used for revision of ...
Here is a set of high quality flashcards for teaching or revising punctuation. There are excellent illustrations and basic rules. The cards are recommended for elementary students and they can al ...
This is a picture dictionary which can also be used as a classroom poster for teaching or revising punctuation. The worksheet is available in both colour and black and white version.
This PowerPoint presentation presents punctuation marks in a fun way. The following punctuation marks are presented: period, comma, question mark, exclamation point, semi-colon, quotation marks, p ...
Inductive approach to teaching speech marks, using extracted text as a reference point. Collaborative learning exercises are encouraged so that target audience can learn from and clarify with each ...
A student started this as a summary of relative clauses. I corrected her few mistakes and spruced it up a bit, but I find it to be a pretty good cheat sheet of relative clauses. Please note this i ...
The 3rd ws of this series about signs & punctuation marks. The students have to choose the right name of the sign or punctuation mark that they have learnt and revised in ws 1 & 2. The key ...
This is the 2nd ws of a series about signs & punctuation marks. After doing the 1st one, her the students have to find out the 30 words in a word search. The signs are given, but no names, so ...
This ws consists of 30 symbols (signs & punctuation marks) and 30 names. The students have to match the names and the symbols and write down the names under the crrect symbol. As a follow-up a ...
This 32 item multiple choice diagnostic mechanics assessment includes commas, capitalization, ending punctuation, parentheses, and quotation marks. In other words, everything in the K-6 Common Cor ...
This 11-page worksheet was kindly provided by Evan-MoorCorp and contains a reading text about chewing gum, spelling activities, vocabulary matching and a page (writing a letter) on using commas co ...
Today we have a complete 6-page lesson plan about dreat kid inventors. The worksheet contains a reading piece, spelling practice activities, 'which word?' activities, quotations, and then a templa ...
A set of materials for practicing both direct and reported speech: punctuation marks cards, comic worksheets, story lines, teacher's notes and answers.
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