: Sentences
Trend task
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Approach: Station Level: Year 4 and year 8 
Focus: Punctuation – capital letters and full stops
Resources:Recording book

Questions/instructions:

The capital letters and full stops are missing from these sentences.

Put in the capital letters and full stops for each sentence.

Sentences card


% responses
2006 ('02)
y4
y8
Line 1:
captial I for “it”
88 (92)
98 (99)
Number of incorrect insertions in Line 1:
0
86 (88)
93 (91)
1
6 (6)
4 (4)
2 or more
8 (6)
3 (5)
Line 2:
full stop after “shining”
78 (75)
91 (90)
capital C for “children”
74 (70)
90 (90)
Number of incorrect insertions in Line 2: 0
90 (90)
94 (93)
1
7 (7)
4 (7)
2 or more
3 (3)
2 (0)
Line 3:
no corrections
–
–
Number of incorrect insertions in Line 3:
0
87 (85)
92 (92)
1
5 (6)
4 (4)
2 or more
8 (9)
4 (4)
Line 4:
full stop after “pool”
73 (70)
88 (88)
Capital T for “this”
67 (64)
84 (86)
Number of incorrect insertions in line 4:
0
93 (92)
94 (95)
1
5 (6)
4 (5)
2 or more
2 (2)
2 (0)
Line 5:

full stop after “enjoy”
89 (89)
87 (87)
Number of incorrect insertions in line 5:
0
97 (96)
100 (99)
1
3 (4)
0 (1)
2 or more
0 (0)
0 (0)
Total score:
6
44 (35)
60 (55)
5
9 (11)
16 (10)
4
17 (16)
9 (9)
2–3
15 (17)
11 (11)
0–1
15 (21)
4 (13)
Subgroup Analysis:
Year 4
Year 8
Commentary:
More than half of the students at both year levels showed good understanding of the use of full stops and capital letters. Boys and girls performed equally well, as did year 8 Pakeha, Mäori and Pasifika students. There were small improvements at both year levels between 2002 and 2006.
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