This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explain and model how to use colons to introduce lists in sentences containing facts about some of the different mysteries that might have happened in the local area.

The class can identify and describe how to record balanced viewpoints in news reports about different events that could happen close to the school.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to use colons to introduce lists in sentences containing facts about some of the different mysteries that might have happened in the local area

Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of worksheets to record how to compose sentences about some of the different mysteries that might have happened in the local area using colons to introduce lists about each event.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use colons to introduce lists in sentences containing facts about different mysteries that might have happened in the local area.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to research and write a news report using journalistic writing containing fact and opinion about a mysterious school event, learn rules for adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in fer and use more complex punctuation marks to write sentences. 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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