Lesson Four – Sentence Lists
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise using colons to introduce a list in example sentences about different events that are currently happening in the news around the world.
The class can identify and suggest the different key questions that can be answered by using the matching paragraphs in a news report about a current event.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using colons to introduce a list in example sentences about different events that are currently happening in the news around the world
Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of worksheets to identify and record how to punctuate sentences about some of the different events currently happening in the news using colons to introduce the lists and commas to separate the items.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use colons to introduce a list in sentences about different events happening in the news.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate some of the different ways that news stories about mysteries are reported and presented using journalistic writing, explore rules for adding the suffixes able and ible to word roots and practise using a colon to introduce a list in a sentence. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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