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Classroom Key Stage 2 / KS2 - English Activities & Resources

Welcome to the Key Stage 2 English area of the @school web site.

This KS2 section is split into important aspects of the English curriculum including speaking and listening, handwriting and drama. Children also have the opportunity to take the online @school assessment tests to see how well they are doing with English.

The main part of English is literacy, consisting of Word Level including phonics, word recognition, spelling, dictionary work, and various texts; Sentence Level including grammar and punctuation, looking at adjectives, adverbs, capital letters, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, sentences, syntax, and verbs; Text Level including writing, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays, and different texts. The @school activities are in an interactive, online test, or printable format, bringing a different dynamic to the subject.

Punctuation

Apostrophe Quiz - With this activity you need to correct the sentences by placing apostrophes in the right places.

Apostrophes - Interactive activities about apostrophes for contraction and possession

Apostrophes - Interactive activities about apostrophes

Apostrophes 1 - Online activity about apostrophes

Apostrophes 2 - Online activity about apostrophes

Apostrophes for Possession - Interactive activities about apostrophes

Brackets and Dashes - Interactive activity to learn how to use brackets and dashes.

Capital Letters - An interactive activity to reinforce the correct use of capital letters.

Capital Letters and Full Stops - Interactive activity to punctuate the sentences

Commas - Interactive activities to learn about commas for Year 4.

Commas - Interactive activity about commas

Commas with Adjectives - Using commas to separate adjectives.

Dialogue Punctuation - Interactive activities about punctuating dialogue.

Don't Use Said - Interactive activity using other words instead of SAID

Edit Dan’s Copy - Interactive game to edit punctuation

Exclamation and Question Marks - An interactive activity to practice the correct use of exclamation and question marks.

Full Stops and Capital Letters - An interactive activity where you become the teacher correcting work with regard to full stops and capital letters.

Marking Clauses - Year 5 - Interactive activity about marking clauses with commas.

Punctuation - Year 5 - Interactive test working out what the symbols in the text should stand for.

Punctuation - Year 5 - Term 3 - Identify what the symbols mean within the passage in this interactive activity.

Punctuation 2 - Level 5 - Interactive task about correcting the sentence construction.

Sentences 1 - Printable worksheet about full stops and capital letters

Speech - Year 5 - Interactive activity about punctuation involving speech marks.

Speech Marks - Interactive activity to put in the speech mark

Speech Marks - Can you re-write John and Paul's coversation using speech marks?

The Colon - Interactive activity to learn how to use a colon.

The Oxford Comma I - Learn how use this simplest of commas in compound sentences.

The Oxford Comma II - An interactive quiz on using commas in compound sentences.

The Semi-Colon - Interactive activity to learn how to use a semi-colon.

Treasure Trove - Interactive activity to find the contraction