Punctuation

First Year at School:

I try to use capital letters and full stops in my writing.

I ta mI katrof rof a wok. (I take my cat for a walk.)

Capital at start, full stop at end of sentence.

40 Weeks:

I can use capital letters to begin my sentences.

I can use full stops to end sentences.

Full stops to end each sentence. Some capitals for beginning sentences.

Punctuation

80 Weeks:

I use full stops to end a sentence.

I am learning to use question marks and exclamation marks.

I use capital letters correctly at the start of sentences and for people’s names.

Awer clarsoom went to the hool. It was shwoing a

lot of shwos and we sag Frosin and Happy. It took

intill luchtime. It was verery fun!

Capitals at the beginning of sentences and for names. Uses exclamation mark.

80 Weeks:

Full stops to end sentences. Capitals at the beginning of sentences and for people’s names. Uses exclamation mark.

Punctuation

120 Weeks:

I use capital letters correctly for proper nouns.

I use full stops, question marks or exclamation marks to end a sentence.

Its Mexicano nachos!

Nachos are a type of Mexican crisp made from corn. They

are triangular in shape or round. Nachos are often served

with salsa, sour cream, guacamole, mince, beans, cheese,

tomato and fresh herbs like coriander. How are nachos

made? Read on and youll find out. To make good nachos put

cheese on them. Secondly put chili beans on it. Next put

the nachos in the oven until the cheese is melted. And

finnaly eat your mild and sometimes healthy meal.

Most full stops and capitals correct. Capital for name.

Uses exclamation mark and question mark. There are

commas in a list (not needed at this level).

Punctuation

Year 4:

I correctly use: capitals:

Full stops, question marks and exclamation marks.

I am experimenting with:

Speech marks, Commas for lists, Apostrophes for contractions.

In Door Sky Diving with Jo

Once with my cuz Jo in the U.S.A we went In Door Sky Diving at

the In Door Sky Diving Center. We where both realy nervis at

first then when we got our suits on we started to relax a bit

more.

It was time to jump so we jumped and nothing happend then all

of a suden to fan under us started to spin around in circules.

It went faster and faster then me and Jo rise very high and

start to do tricks like ford flips and back flips too. Then it was

time to get off!!! When we got off Jo said “time gose by when

your having fun” and I agreed with him. Then we walked down

all these staris so we could get to the car and go home. Once we

got home I was felling realy happy. Why was I felling happy?

Because I had just been In Door Sky Diving for the first time in

my life and I injoyed it.

Exclamation mark, some pronoun capitals, question mark, and speech marks experiment.

Punctuation

Year 4:

Bill, Bob and John are going on a hike in the Rainforest.

Bill suggested the ideas of a hike three days earlier. Bob

his brother wasn’t to sure on the idea so invited his Best

friend John. John thought it sounded like fun so agreed

to go along. “This is the first hike I’ve ever been on” said

Bob. Bill Looked at his brother and Laughed. Bill had

already hiked every mountain in the world. Bill was just

about to suggest they stop for Lunch when, he slipped and

tumbled down a small cliff. “Bill.” Yelled Bob. “Are you

alright?” asked a Lady who just happened to be strolling by

at the time. “No. My brother he’s fallen down a cliff. I

think he’s hurt.” Said Bob to the Lady. Luckily the Lady

happened to be a local paramedic called china. China

walked down the cliff to investigate Bill. China noticed

Bill had a broken Foot. The two boys and China carried Bill

back to the hospital base camp and the doctors put a cast

on Bills leg. “I’m never going on a hike again” said Bob.

Contractions (he’s, I’ve), capitals for names, comma in list,

speech mark trial. Some incorrect capitals.

Punctuation

Year 5:

I can correctly use: capital letters, full stops, question marks exclamation marks, apostrophes for contractions, speech marks. commas for lists. I am experimenting with commas in direct speech.

Opening Statement

Jellyfish are invertebrates, that means that the don’t

have any bones! Also they are cnidarians. As you all know,

jellyfish have tentacles with a bunch of stinging cells.

Guess what, the scientific name for the Antarctic jellyfish

is Desmonema glaciale!

Appearance

All jellyfish are in a shape of a ball or a dome. They have

transparent body’s and in the water they look invisable to

other animals.

All jellyfish’s tentacles trail along in the water while they

are moving.

Attempt commas for complex sentences, attempt

apostrophe for possession (body’s, jellyfish’s),

exclamation, apostrophe for contraction (don’t), capitals

for names.

Year 5:

Harry was eight years old and attended St Mathews

School. He was fairly smart and had an imaginative mind.

One day in term 2 week 8 in the year 2018 Harry had been

doing tests in class he was extremely tired and had dozed

off to sleep. When the school hours ended his teacher

woke him up.

“Harry, oh Harry you slept through class. It’s time to go

home now. Oh and don’t forget your homework,” said Mrs

Obswoth. Harry packed up his belongings and quietly

shuffled out of class. On his way home he felt a tingly

feeling in his hands, he shook them a few times and

carried on his way. He stopped there it was again “how

queer” he thought to himself.

When he got home he said to his mum, “Mum, something

queer happened today” he explained.

“Fall asleep again huh?” She replied.

“Yeah but” – he was interrupted by the constant ringing of

the phone. His mother answered it, ignoring her son.

“Oh well” he muttered to himself and walked into the

lounge to watch some t.v.

Punctuation

Later that night when Harry was eating his dinner he got

that tingly weird feeling in his hands. “Oh that’s weird” he

muttered to himself.

“What’s that darling” she asked.

“Don’t worry” he replied and they carried on eating.

When Harry was in bed at 1 or 2 in the morning he woke up

quickly. Was it just him or had something whispered in his

ear? He turned on the lamp and looked around the room,

nothing. He turned over his pillow and turned off the

lamp.

He was just dozing back to sleep when something brushed

against him. He silently reached out his arm and grabbed a

furry little creature. “Gotcha” he exclaimed and turned on

the light.

What he saw was one of the scariest furry rats he had

ever seen. “Hello” it said with a devilish grin.

“AAAAHHHH!!!!!” Harry screamed. Something tapped him

on the shoulder. He rolled over and examined the

creature. “AAAHHHH” he yawned.

“Come on Harry time to go to school, your late.”

“Oh what” he muttered. And all that he had seen was a

dream that was just too true. “Ooh, ooh” he said as he

began to doze back to sleep. “Here we go again…”

Use speech marks with a new line for each speaker,

apostrophes for contractions, capitals for names,

attempts commas for clauses, uses ellipsis.

Punctuation

Year 6: I use basic punctuation that is mostly correct: capital letters, full stops and commas, question marks, exclamation marks, apostrophes, speech marks, commas in direct speech. I attempt more difficult punctuation: apostrophes for possession, commas for clauses, or semi colons

“Ahoy there Captin Cook. You have arrived at last”, said

Christopher Columbus.

“Hello Christopher Columbus. Its nice to meet you. I hear you

had a very successful journey” said Captin Cook

“I learnt so much.” “Ah yes. Where I sailed to. Well first I

sailed to Australius and next to New Zealand and I also studied

Venus to find them,” said Captin Cook.

“Well I sailed to the Indies for four times in the Nina and the

Pinta and it only took me 2 and a half months.”

“Well my voyage took me three

whole years!” said Captin Cook.

“I sadley survived on none freash food” said Christopher

Columbus sadley. I feel sorry for you my dear friend but I did

survived on freash food said Captin Cook proudly

“Like what?” asked Christopher Columbus.

“Chicken’s, meat with salt on, and cabbage” said Captin Cook.

“What did your men think of the cabbage” chuckled Christopher

Columbus.

“They hated it” laughed Captin Cook.

“But they would have to eat it or else” smiled Captin Cook.

“Or else what?” said Christopher Columbus with an evil grin.

“I’d flogg them” said Captin Cook.

Speech marks with some commas. Contractions, commas for lists, exclamation marks, possessive apostrophe (chicken’s), capitals for names, questions marks, full stops all correct.

Punctuation

Year 6:

Correct simple punctuation, commas for clauses, apostrophes for contractions and possessive (light’s, body’s), parentheses.

Punctuation

Year 7:

I correctly use a variety of punctuation eg apostrophes for possession, commas for clauses, or semi colons.

My punctuation assists the reader to understand the meaning.

I attempt as required some complex punctuation eg semicolons (;), colons (:), parentheses (), ellipses (…), and dashes (-).

Grey Wolf!

Intro/classification

Wolves are the largest of 41 species in the dog family. Did you

know that your pet dog at home is distantly related to a

wolf!!! There are 3 types of wolves, Abysstrian Wolves, Red

Wolves and Grey Wolves (also known as timber wolves). This

report is about Grey Wolves.

Description

The average wolf is usally bigger and longer than the female

wolf. Northern wolves are usally larger than thos living in

warmer habitats. For example an Artic Wolf can weigh as much

a eight kgs, while Mexican Wolves generally wigh less than 35

kg. The colour and thickness of their coat varies depending on

their environment.

There are many different Grey wolves and they have adapted to

their environment and their climates. For example the Grey

Wolves in Greenland and Siberia live on tundra (tree-less

plains), when Grey Wolves in Canada and the USA live in forests.

Since wolves are not on the top of the food chain (We are) they

are hunted as well.

Basic punctuation correct (capitals for names, fullstops) commas for clauses, parentheses correct.

Punctuation

Year 7:

I correctly use a variety of punctuation eg apostrophes for possession, commas for clauses, or semi colons.

My punctuation assists the reader to understand the meaning.

I attempt as required some complex punctuation eg semicolons (;), colons (:), parentheses (), ellipses (…), and dashes (-).

Nicky’s birthday

On the 6th of October 2010 I went to Nicky’s birthday

with Paula and Kate. We did lots of cool things such as

going to the movies and having a sleep over, it was so fun.

We first went to her dad’s house in Wainuiomata before

we did anything else. Then we headed to a fish and chips

shop to get some lunch to eat over at Nicky’s dad’s

house. So we ate and then started playing buzz in Nicky’s

room.

Next we went shopping at Woolworths to get some things

for dinner. We went with Nicky’s step mum and her name

is Maryanne it was so awesome because Nicky brought us

all 6 fart bombs each and a soft serve from McDonalds.

Later on that day we were bored so we headed towards

this creek and the water was freezing cold. Nicky was like

“why don’t we jump the creek”? and we were like I don’t

know. So then Nicky jumped and she said “that was

awesome!” So then we joined in and it was so fun. We

were playing around over there for like 3 or 4 hours.

We were all really tired so we headed back to the house

and started eating dinner. We had bbq with potatoe salad

and a green salad. We all wanted to watch a movie so went

with Nicky to go and rent a few DVD’s from the video

store. We took them back and we watched them all.

The next day we went to watch a movie called Vampire

Suck. It was such an awesome movie. I watched the movie

with Nicky, Paula, Kate and Sam.

Finally we dropped off Paula and Kate. While I was waiting

for my mum and dad to pick me up, I felt really happy

because Nicky had invited me to her birthday.

Correct basic punctuation, possessive apostrophe, capitals for pronouns, speech marks mostly correct, contractions and commas in lists. Punctuation assists reader.

Punctuation

Year 7:

I correctly use a variety of punctuation eg apostrophes for possession, commas for clauses, or semi colons.

My punctuation assists the reader to understand the meaning.

I attempt as required some complex punctuation eg semicolons (;), colons (:), parentheses (), ellipses (…), and dashes (-).

The student has used a colon, semi-colon, commas, apostrophes and punctuation to assist the reader.

Punctuation

Year 8:

My writing has few or no errors in punctuation.

My punctuation is controlled to enhance the meaning.

Correct sentence punctuation, except first sentence. Punctuation assists reader, commas, hyphens, possessive apostrophes all correct.