Y6

GPS

Using Colons and Semi-colons Homework

Worksheet
Homework
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This engaging Year 6 Using Colons and Semi-Colons Homework resource allows children to consolidate their learning at home, challenging your children to apply their understanding of colons and semi-colons and in particular, the use of them in lists in sentences.

This worksheet is differentiated three ways to give your children the correct level of challenge and provides two varied fluency and one reasoning question to work through. It could also be completed in class either independently, in pairs or with adult support. A full answer sheet is provided to make marking quicker.


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