Activities in this teaching pack include worksheets to record where to add colons and commas to correctly punctuate example lists and add separate items to complete lists that can been introduced by an independent clause and a template to model how to compose lists using colons and commas to name jobs that robots could perform in a family home.

The interactive presentation gets the children to identify and practise using colons to introduce lists in different sentences about how families can use robots to complete jobs in their homes.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explain and model how to use colons to introduce lists on different topics and themes when they are preceded by a matching independent clause. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.