Age Range: 7 - 11
By: David Mitchell
David Mitchell has suggested a fantastic way of encouraging children to use punctuation in their writing. Different types of punctuation have a value attached to them. When children are assessing their own writing (or the writing of others), they count the total value of the punctuation that they have used. Read more about the idea and see lots of comments from other teachers on David's blog here.
He has kindly allowed me to create some resources based on his idea, all of which can be downloaded below. If you have any comments or suggestions about the 'Punctuation Points' activity, please leave a comment on David's blog post.
Downloads:
A full set of punctuation points posters (including the points values).
A printable banner to add to displays about Punctuation Points.
Grids that can be used for self, peer and teacher assessment.
Who will get the most punctuation points in your class?
Printable cars to add to your displays.
A handy reference sheet for children to refer to during writing activities.
Our popular poster using Comic Sans font for children with dyslexia.
An alternative version of the poster with different spellings.
Reward your children for their amazing punctuation work!
A handy poster with the types of punctuation and their related points value.
This complete set of posters does not include the points values, for teachers who just want to use them as reference resources.
A set of all of the above posters, without points information, so teachers can choose the points values and write them on.
A poster that can be used to teach your children about capital letters.
today!
Comments
Louise
26th January 2013
WOW these are brilliant!
Anne Neal
27th January 2013
I love this idea and the resources are fantastic- thank you. Is there any chance of you creating a capital letter punctuation point poster?!
Mark Warner
28th January 2013
Hi Anne. I've just made a 'Capital Letters' poster and published it here too.
jean
9th June 2013
really an interesting snapshots along with great punctuation
Jayne
14th August 2013
Fantastic resource, just what I need for a boy heavy competitive class!
Guest
15th August 2013
These are great to get boys on board with punctuation- I would have put fullstops and capital letters at 1 point and commas at 2! So great to have the blank pack but need a blank capital letter too.
Sharon
11th September 2013
Thank you very much for these useful and engaging posters. I will use this resource over and over again.
Rose B-M
20th March 2014
Hi, I love these resources and have downloaded them but I can't print them as they are password protected. Has anyone else had this problem?
Mark Warner
24th March 2014
Hi Rose... if you email [email protected] I'll try and help :-)
Daniel
1st December 2015
Very cool idea. Thanks.
Siobhan
5th May 2016
Lovely idea, like the poster will use it as a laminated 'mat' on the tables. Thanks.
Alfonso B,
28th July 2016
I'm surprised by your game to make students much better at punctuation. Excellent material!! Thank you!! My text books to teach EFL completely ignore this subject, that's sad.
Brenda
2nd January 2017
This are great and fun to use when teaching.
Julia Reynolds
7th August 2019
Wonderful resources! Many thanks to both of you.