Year 6 Using Punctuation to Mark Boundaries

Year 6 Using Punctuation to Mark Boundaries

Teacher Specific Information

This Year 6 Using Punctuation to Mark Boundaries IWB Activity includes five questions designed to check pupils’ understanding of using semi-colons, dashes and colons to separate multi-clause sentences. Pupils will identify correctly punctuated sentences, determine whether a sentence has been punctuated correctly, select the sentence that is missing a semi-colon, identify incorrectly punctuated sentences, and select a word in a sentence that would follow a colon.

This activity is linked to the Classroom Secrets Year 6 GPS scheme of work.
Questions in this activity are based on the content in Spring Block 4 Steps 4 and 5 on the Classroom Secrets website, where you can find more resources.

National Curriculum Objectives

Writing – Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation

  • (6G5.10) Using colons to mark boundaries between independent clauses
  • (6G5.11) Using semi-colons to mark boundaries between independent clauses
  • (6G5.12) Using dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses

Terminology for pupils

  • (6G5.10) colon
  • (6G5.11) semi-colon
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