Year 4 Speech Punctuation Game Activity

Teacher Specific Information

This Year 4 Speech Punctuation Game activity comprises 12 sentences, some with correct speech punctuation and some with incorrect speech punctuation. The activity requires children to examine the use of full stops, commas, inverted commas, exclamation marks and question marks.

National Curriculum Objectives:
English Year 4: (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!”]
English Year 4: (4G5.7) Using and punctuating direct speech