Colons for lists: flying fish
Whiteboard Challenges
Challenge 1
Identify where the punctuation marks should go in the first sentence.
Challenge 2
Rewrite the second sentence so that a colon introduces the list. Remember – the introductory clause must be able to stand alone. (It needs to be a main clause.)
Challenge 3
Using some of the words from the Word Wall, write your own scintillating sentence that includes a colon to introduce a list. Your sentence could be about how flying fish use their body parts to get airborne or about the dangers they face in both the water and in the sky. You can use words that appear in the Word Wall to create a list.
Whiteboard Challenges
1) Flying fish have a diet that includes a variety of marine creatures plankton small crustaceans and fish larvae.
2) The Atlantic flying fish, the California flying fish, the bandwing flying fish and the short-winged flying fish are just some of the 40 known species of flying fish.