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Grade 2 Speech Marks Worksheets

These grade 2 speech marks worksheets will challenge your students, and help them improve their punctuation in English. Speech marks are always used in writing and therefore it’s imperative that children understand how to use them accurately. These speech marks worksheets are ideal for students in grade 2 and grade 3. Teach your children how to use speech marks and then use these worksheets to give them the repetition they need. They’re perfect for independent work or for literacy rotations. Click on the images below to download the worksheets.

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Speech Marks

There are a number of resources which can be used to teach children about speech marks (also known as inverted commas or quotation marks):

1)  Witch and Tiger Conversation . This worksheet (in PDF format below) shows ten pictures of a witch and a tiger having a conversation. The speech bubbles are blank, and the procedure for using this worksheet goes as follows:

• First, the children can choose names for the witch and the tiger.
• Then, they have to create the contents of the conversation. The topic of the conversation could be decided by the children, or it could be based on a choice by the teacher. You could even complete the conversation before the lesson, in order to save more time for the next (and most important) section.
• Now the children have to re-write this conversation in the form of a story. They will need to include phrases such as “said Tom” and “asked Joe”. Speech marks will also need to be used, so it is important that children have a good knowledge of the correct use of speech marks before this activity is tried.

2)  Missing Speech Marks . This activity is also based on a worksheet, which can be also be found below. It contains a number of sentences involving speech. However, the speech marks have been removed from the text and should be replaced by the children.

3)  Missing Speech Marks . This activity is very similar to the one above, with children required to put speech marks in the correct place in each of the sentences. The worksheet (in PDF format) is also below.

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Year 2 english, missing punctuation (1).

Missing punctuation (2)

Missing punctuation (3), full stops and question marks, speech marks 1, conjunctions, conjunctions 2, correct order, capital letters and full stops, capital letters, conjunctions 3, missing punctuation 5, speech marks 3, speech marks 4, missing punctuation (4), is or are (2), is or are (1), is or are (3), question mark or full stop 1, question mark or full stop 2, question mark or full stop 4, question mark or full stop 3, question mark or full stop 5, question mark or full stop 6, autumn - missing vowels, find the noun (1), find the noun (2), find the adjective (1), find the adjective (2), changing nouns, choosing the correct verb - is, am or are (1), choosing the correct verb - is, am or are (2), possessive apostrophe, adding ness activity, adding er activity, suffixes - ful and less.

Adding the suffix -ly

Suffixes - Adding er and est to adjectives

Suffixes -er or -est ending, subordinating conjunctions matching activity ('when' and 'if'), subordinating conjunctions matching activity ('because' and 'that'), coordinating conjunctions matching activity ('or' and 'but'), statements, questions, exclamations and commands, using commas to separate words in a list, using commas activity, using apostrophes - singular possession, using apostrophes to show possession, using apostrophes in contractions, apostrophes in contractions, circle the contractions, writing contractions, question or command activity, question or exclamation activity, past tense verbs cloze activity, present tense verbs cloze activity.

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KS2 - Speech Mark worksheet

Subject: English

Age range: 7-11

Resource type: Worksheet/Activity

Last updated

5 September 2020

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This is a four-page word document worksheet focusing on year 5 and 6 students practising speech marks. The document comes with a grammatical explanation of how speech marks are used. There are 6 exercises which build with intensity to allow students to practice writing grammatically correct sentences with speech marks.

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