Support your students in developing punctuation awareness with the Trash or Treasure Punctuation Worksheet. This engaging and hands-on sorting activity helps students identify correct and incorrect punctuation in sentences about ocean, zoo, and farm animals—while strengthening their understanding of sentence structure and end punctuation rules.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Recognise correct and incorrect punctuation in simple sentences
• ✅ Apply knowledge of full stops, question marks, and exclamation marks
• ✅ Build confidence in proofreading and editing
• ✅ Practise sorting and classifying based on grammatical correctness

What’s Included:

• Sentence strips featuring animal-themed content
• Sorting worksheet template (trash = incorrect, treasure = correct)
• Instructions for classroom implementation

Materials Needed:

• Printed worksheets and sentence strips
• Scissors and glue sticks
• Pencils for rewriting extension tasks

How to Use:

• • Students read each sentence strip
• • Determine if the punctuation is correct or incorrect
• • Sort and glue each sentence into the correct column
• • Discuss common punctuation errors and editing strategies

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use during writing or grammar mini-lessons
• 💡 Include in literacy rotations for punctuation practise
• 💡 Incorporate into editing lessons to build proofreading skills

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Review punctuation rules with a quick anchor chart or mini-lesson
• 💛 Encourage students to read each sentence aloud to hear if it sounds complete
• 💛 Have students rewrite incorrect sentences as part of an editing challenge

Trash or Treasure Punctuation Worksheet is a fun and targeted way to support early writers in developing essential punctuation and editing skills through engaging sentence sorting activities.