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Using Colons and Semi-colons Application and Reasoning

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Use this Year 6 Using Colons and Semi-colons Application and Reasoning worksheet to challenge pupils understanding of how punctuation is used in a list. With two application and one reasoning question, children are asked to rewrite a sentence, use colons and semi-colons to write a list and find and correct mistakes in a list.

This differentiated resource provides you with a choice of three levels meaning that there is something for everyone to access. The answers are also included.

Curriculum Objectives

  • Indicate grammatical and other features by: Using semi-colons to mark boundaries between independent clauses / Use of the semi-colon to mark the boundary between independent clauses [for example, It’s raining; I’m fed up] / Use of semi-colons within lists / Terminology for pupils: semi-colon
  • Indicate grammatical and other features by: Using colons to mark boundaries between independent clauses / Indicate grammatical and other features by: Using a colon to introduce a list / Use of the colon to mark the boundary between independent clauses / Use of the colon to introduce a list / Terminology for pupils: colon

Tags

Punctuation

Spring

6G5.11

6G5.10

Year 6 Punctuation 1

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