KS2 Correct Punctuation Test Practice

These questions have been taken from the KS2 SPAG test to help your children practise specific question types.

National Curriculum Objectives

Year 1 English: (1G5.1) Beginning to punctuate sentences using a capital letter

Year 1 English: (1G5.2) Beginning to punctuate sentences using a full stop

Year 1 English: (1G5.3) Beginning to punctuate sentences using a question mark

Year 1 English: (1G5.4) Beginning to punctuate sentences using an exclamation mark

Year 2 English: (2G5.1) Use of capital letters to demarcate sentences

Year 2 English: (2G5.2) Use of full stops to demarcate sentences

Year 2 English: (2G5.3) Use of question marks to demarcate sentences

Year 2 English: (2G5.4) Use of exclamation marks to demarcate sentences

Year 3 and 4 English: (4G5.7) Use of inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech [for example, a comma after the reporting clause; end punctuation within inverted commas: The conductor shouted, “Sit down!”]

Year 5 and 6 English: (5G5.9) Using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis

Differentiation:

Beginner Tick the sentence which uses capital letters and full stops correctly. Four options to choose from. Aimed at Year 1 Secure/Year 2 Emerging.

Easy Tick the sentence which uses capital letters, full stops, exclamation marks and question marks correctly. Four options to choose from. Aimed at Year 1 Mastery/Year 2 Secure.

Tricky Tick the sentence which uses capital letters, full stops, exclamation marks, question marks and inverted commas for speech correctly. Four options to choose from. Aimed at Year 3 Secure/Year 4 Developing.

Expert Tick the sentence which uses capital letters, full stops, exclamation marks, question marks, inverted commas for speech correctly and dashes for parenthesis. Four options to choose from. Aimed at Year 5 Secure.

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