Year 6 · SPaG · Summer: Consolidation: revising the tested content
Year 6 revision: commas, apostrophes and speech worksheet and PowerPoint
To revise: commas to make the meaning clear; commas after fronted adverbials and clauses; commas in a list; apostrophes for missing letters; apostrophes for possession; punctuating direct speech.
What this sheet revises
Each question comes from one of the lessons below. If a question is tricky, look back at that lesson’s sheet and slides.
| Commas to make the meaning clear | How one comma can change the meaning of a sentence. |
|---|---|
| Commas after fronted adverbials and clauses | A comma after an opening phrase or subordinate clause, and none when it comes second. |
| Commas in a list | Separating the items of a list with commas, with and before the last item. |
| Apostrophes for missing letters | Contractions such as don’t, can’t and they’re. |
| Apostrophes for possession | Showing who owns something: the girl’s coat, the girls’ coats, the children’s coats. |
| Punctuating direct speech | Inverted commas, commas, question marks and exclamation marks in direct speech. |
Key words
- comma
- a mark that separates parts of a sentence
- ambiguous
- can be understood in two ways
- addressing
- speaking to someone by name
- fronted
- put at the front of a sentence
- fronted adverbial
- a word or phrase at the start of a sentence that says when, where or how
- subordinate clause
- a clause that depends on a main clause
- main clause
- the part that makes sense on its own
- list
- three or more things joined in a row
What is on the worksheet
Every sheet for this lesson has a short teaching box and 12 questions that get gradually harder: 8 fluency questions, then 4 reasoning questions that ask pupils to explain or choose. A writing challenge follows. The questions use the same styles as the key stage 2 grammar and punctuation test (circle, underline, tick, fill the gap, add punctuation, rewrite, explain). They are written for this website, not copied from past papers.
All the answers are on the last page of the same editable Word file. New questions are made every time, so you can print a different sheet for every group or for homework. The same sheet code always gives the same sheet.
Writing challenge: Choose the lesson from this sheet that you found most difficult. Write three new questions of your own for a friend, with an answer sheet, then swap and mark each other’s work.
Pupil target: I can remember what I have learned and use it.
The PowerPoint
A 20-slide lesson deck for the same lesson: a starter that revisits earlier learning, key words, an I do and a You do question on each slide with a countdown timer, answers that appear one click at a time, and a challenge. Download the revision: commas, apostrophes and speech PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 58 of 72 in the Year 6 SPaG scheme, in the Summer term, block “Consolidation: revising the tested content”. It is taught before the SATs grammar test in May.
Other lessons in this block
- Revision: relative clauses, phrases and clauses
- Revision: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and tenses
- Revision: pronouns, determiners, prepositions and sentences
- Revision: prefixes, suffixes and word families
- Revision: parenthesis, dashes and hyphens
- Revision: colons, semi-colons, lists and notes
- Revision: synonyms and antonyms
- Revision: verbs, Standard English and formal writing
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