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.