Punctuation Worksheets
Punctuation is where a reader is told to stop, pause, or hear someone speak. These worksheets begin with choosing the mark that ends a sentence and build to the semicolons and colons that hold longer writing together.
- Grades
- Kindergarten – Grade 8
- Worksheets
- 10
- Topics
- 7
Topics in punctuation
- End Punctuation — Kindergarten to Grade 4
Choosing a period, question mark or exclamation point to match what the sentence is doing.
- Apostrophes in Contractions — Grade 2 to Grade 6
Placing the apostrophe where letters were removed, and expanding contractions back out.
- Apostrophes for Possession — Grade 2 to Grade 8
Singular and plural possessives, and keeping possessives apart from plurals and from its/it's.
- Quotation Marks — Grade 3 to Grade 8
Punctuating direct speech: quotation marks, the comma before or after the tag, and where end marks go.
- Semicolons — Grade 6 to Grade 8
Joining closely related independent clauses with a semicolon, and separating items that already contain commas.
- Colons — Grade 6 to Grade 8
Introducing a list, an explanation or a quotation with a colon after a complete independent clause.
- Mixed Punctuation Review — Grade 4 to Grade 8
Repunctuating passages that need several different marks correctly placed.
Any topic on this list can appear for any grade it covers.
Kindergarten
All kindergarten worksheets →Grade 1
All grade 1 worksheets →Grade 3
All grade 3 worksheets →Grade 4
All grade 4 worksheets →Apostrophes in Contractions Worksheet — Grade 4
Grade 4 students practice placing apostrophes correctly in contractions and expanding contractions back to two words in this focused exercise.
Apostrophes for Possession Worksheet — Grade 4
Practice singular and plural possessives, and learn to tell possessives apart from plain plurals and from its/it's, in this Grade 4 worksheet.
Grade 5
All grade 5 worksheets →Apostrophes for Possession Worksheet — Grade 5
Grade 5 apostrophe worksheet drilling singular and plural possessives, its versus it's, and possessives versus plain plurals across four exercise types.
Mixed Punctuation Review Worksheet — Grade 5
Grade 5 mixed-punctuation practice: identify apostrophes, choose correct marks, and rewrite sentences using commas, colons, semicolons, and quotation marks.
Grade 6
All grade 6 worksheets →Grade 7
All grade 7 worksheets →Grade 8
All grade 8 worksheets →What is published under punctuation
Ten punctuation worksheets are published, covering seven of the seven topics in this skill and written for kindergarten, grade 1, grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, grade 6, grade 7 and grade 8. Between them they come to 148 questions and 88 ruled lines.
Punctuation spans kindergarten to grade 8 across its topic list, which is wider than most single skills — end punctuation, apostrophes in contractions and apostrophes for possession sit at different ends of it. A topic's grade range is where a dedicated sheet is still worth printing, not where the idea is first mentioned.
How a punctuation sheet works
Five question types appear across these sheets — 10 × identify, 8 × rewrite, 7 × write your own, 5 × multiple choice and 5 × fill in the blank — and no single sheet uses all of them. Each moves from spotting the rule to applying it, so a student who has memorised the wording of the rule and nothing else runs out of road before the last part.
30 rule statements are printed across the set, in a box above the questions rather than assumed from a lesson last week. Altogether a student reads about 2248 words to work through every punctuation sheet here; the longest single one is Colons — Introducing Lists and Explanations: Grade 8 at 20 questions, against a target of 20 for its grade.
These sit in the recognition, application and analysis bands. Every sheet prints its answer key on a separate page so it can be handed out without one, in black and white, with no account and no watermark.