Lesson Five – Sentence Colons
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise using and punctuating colons correctly in example sentences to link independent clauses or introduce a list in a special type of non-fiction writing.
The class can explain and model to how compose and present an explanation of a function or a recount of an expedition to a dangerous location.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using and punctuating colons correctly in example sentences to link independent clauses or introduce a list in a special type of non-fiction writing
Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to select different experiences and locations to use when writing example sentences for a model explanation or recount when using colons to link independent clauses or introduce a list in the writing.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use colons in sentences to link independent clauses or introduce a list in a type of non-fiction writing.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate the text structures and content of explanations and recounts and plan and write matching texts, explore and use spellings of words with cious and tious word endings and use colons to mark the boundary between sentence clauses.. 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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