Year 6 English · KS2

Punctuation: Colons, Semi-colons and Dashes

8 lessons, in the order they are taught. Part of the Year 6 English curriculum.

What this topic covers

  1. 1Apostrophes: for contraction, singular possession and plural possession 2
  2. 2Bullet points
  3. 3Colons: first function
  4. 4Colons: second function
  5. 5Hyphens and ellipsis
  6. 6Semi-colons: first function
  7. 7Semi-colons: second function
  8. 8Speech three ways

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Which of the following will we not include in each main paragraph of our report?

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