Punctuation ESL Worksheets and Games
End of Sentence Punctuation

ESL Ending Punctuation Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Sentence Completion, Gap-fill, Categorising
In this useful ending punctuation worksheet, students learn and practice how to use full stops (periods), exclamation marks and question marks. Students begin by completing definitions with words...
Pausing Points

ESL Pausing Points Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Matching, Ordering, Gap-fill, Sentence Completion
This insightful pausing points worksheet helps students learn and practice how to indicate a pause or break in a sentence using periods, commas, semicolons, dashes and ellipses. Students start by choosing...
Apostrophes and Quotation Marks

ESL Apostrophes and Quotation Marks Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Matching, Error Correction, Rewriting Sentences, Adding Punctuation
Here is a free quotation marks and apostrophes worksheet for intermediate students. First, students match situations in which quotation marks...
Dashes and Hyphens

ESL Dashes and Hyphens Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill, Sentence Completion, Rewriting Sentences
This comprehensive dashes and hyphens worksheet helps students learn and practice how to use hyphens and dashes. To begin, students match usage...
Academic Citations

Academic Citations Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Matching, Writing References and Quotations
In this informative academic citations worksheet, students learn and practice how to cite sources in academic writing, including using square brackets to modify quotations, in-text citations and references...
Academic Parentheses

Academic Punctuation Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Gap-fill, Matching, Error Correction, Rewriting Sentences
In this handy parentheses worksheet, students learn how to use parentheses in academic writing. First, students complete a text that explains the use of parentheses in academic writing using...
Honest Ellipsis

ESL Ellipses Worksheet - Writing Exercise: Rewriting Sentences - Speaking Activity: Discussion, Categorising - Pair Work
This detailed ellipses worksheet helps to teach students how to use ellipses to remove unnecessary words from quotations in an intellectually honest way. To start, students rewrite shortened quotes...
Parentheses Race

ESL Parentheses Game - Writing: Adding Punctuation - Pair Work
In this engaging punctuation game, students race to add parentheses (round brackets) to sentences. One student from each pair comes to your desk and picks up sentence card 1. The student then goes back to their partner with the card and the...