These bright, appealing grammar worksheets are a great help for practising and revising the use of colons in Y6. There are three worksheets in total, covering the following five sections – ‘understand’, ‘challenge’, ‘test’, ‘explain’ and ‘apply’.
- Understand
Look at the clauses below. Can you add extra information to each one after the colon?
- Challenge
Students write two sentences that each include a colon in response to two image prompts.
- Test
Students draw lines to connect the two matching parts of four different sentences that use colons.
- Explain
Using their own words, students explain why one might choose to use a colon in their writing.
- Apply
Students write an explanation in response to an image prompt that makes use of at least 2 colons.
What is a colon?
A punctuation mark that is typically used to introduce a list of items, a direct quotation or some form of explanation.
Colon examples
- Mrs Jones said: “This was not supposed to happen.”
- They talked about three things: the weather, what they’d had for lunch and how noisy it was.
- The pain was bad enough to make one thing clear: he’d really hurt himself.
National Curriculum English programme of study links
Pupils should be taught to indicate grammatical and other features by using semi-colons, colons or dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses [and] using a colon to introduce a list.