Punctuation Worksheets

Your kids are exposed to bad grammar and incorrect use of punctuation on an almost daily basis. In recent years, the popularity of texting and social media has made things worse. Learning about punctuation becomes more important as your child progresses through his studies. Learning to use proper punctuation is an important skill that is likely to affect your kids’ opportunities in life and they need to be given the importance they deserve.

And since practice alone makes perfect, check out our wide range of painstakingly researched worksheets that teach students the correct use of commas, semi-colons, apostrophes and other punctuation marks.

We also have loads of vocabulary worksheets, grammar worksheets, and reading worksheets. to make your child a better reader and writer

• Fix the Letter
• Practicing Apostrophes
• Punctuation Quiz
• Colorful Punctuation
• Punctuation in the Lunchroom
• Practicing Colons
• Practicing Punctuation
• The Case of the Missing Punctuation
• Punctuation Printable
• Asking or Telling?
• Punctuate Right
• Capitalize the Fairy Tale Characters
• Punctuate, Punctuate!
• Apt Apostrophes
• Quotation Marks Quiz
• Fun with Commas 1
• Fun with Commas 2
• Punctuate the Paragraph 1
• Punctuate the Paragraph 2
• Stacey's Letter
• It's Easy
• Punctuation Practice

Punctuation and its Importance

When you speak, you use pauses and tones to convey meaning to your listeners. But writing cannot convey the same. That’s why we use punctuation marks.

Punctuation is a commonly accepted group of signs and symbols that divide words into meaningful groups and help them make sense to a reader. Punctuation is used to separate words in to phrases, clauses and sentences in order to clarify their meaning. They are signals to readers and can be used to convey a variety of meanings.

Children need to understand that the sentences they write will be read by someone and readers must be able to make sense of them. A piece of writing without any punctuation marks would be confusing and difficult to read or understand. A child who knows when and where to use the fourteen punctuation marks of English grammar is already on his way to becoming a good writer. These include the period, question mark, exclamation mark, colon, semicolon, comma, apostrophe, dash, braces, hyphen, brackets, parentheses, ellipses and quotation marks. Three of these – the period, the question mark and the exclamation mark – can be used to end sentences.

These free printable punctuation worksheets make it easy for kids to master their punctuation. Download them today!