Free teacher web sites for English topic ‘Sentence - Puctuation for speech’

Pupils add speech marks to this online text. Then they print it. It is simple and of course that means it gets a thumbs-up from us. Perfect task for individuals.

External link: Add the speech marks activity

Drag and drop activity to place words under the correct part of speech heading. Now this doesn't work with Firefox, only Internet Explorer and so it gets a thumbs down for that reason from us. But we are tech geeks as you know - go ahead and enjoy it anyway! Great for KS2.

External link: Parts of Speech

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Great for KS2. Rather unusual collection of poems about Gracie Grammar and her family, Vicky Verb, Norman Noun and Annabel Adjective. Make of them what you will, there's certainly scope for classroom use here.

External link: PowerPoint about the Parts of Speech

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Useful little presentation about the use of speech marks, focusing on the bit of punctuation before the closing speech marks. Incorporates a terrible joke, which we find always helps things along nicely. Great for KS2.

External link: PowerPoint speech marks

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Sensible little presentation that animates the 'what is actually SPOKEN?!' question that we teachers find ourselves asking regularly during lessons on speech marks. Moves on to concentrate on replacements for 'said'. All good stuff. Great for KS2.

External link: PowerPoint speech marks and said - dialogue

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Endless, endless clicking on the next button finally takes you to a useful set of text which explains (through the story of Odysseus) about when and where speech marks should be used. We have used this and it is useful - but beware that 'next' button.

External link: Speech Marks - Explanation and Activity

• suitable for class use