Colons for lists: locust

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 about the locusts featured in the clip. Your sentence should include a colon to introduce a list. You could create a list using the names of African countries that have been devastated by plagues of locusts in recent years, or the names of insects similar in appearance to the locust, which all appear in the Word Wall.