Lessons tagged with "commas"
Use Commas to Separate Items in a Series
- Grade:
- 1
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on using commas to separate items in a series. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify a series of items in a sentence and insert commas. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Use Commas and Quotation Marks in Dialogue
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This language lesson covers the proper use of commas and quotation marks. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will practice the correct placement of quotation marks and commas with dialogue.
Use Commas in Direct Quotations
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on using commas in direct quotations. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read sentences with quotation marks and identify the speaker. Then, they punctuate the sentence by adding the comma in the correct place. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Use Commas Correctly
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This Language lesson has students correctly use commas to separate different items in a sentence. Students will both insert commas where necessary and explain the reason that a comma is necessary there. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of independent practice and review.
Separate Items in a Series
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This language lesson covers how to separate items in a series, using commas and semicolons. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to identify a series of items, where to put the commas, and when to use a semicolon.
Combine Sentences with Participial Phrases
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on combining sentences with participial phrases. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students combine sentences by inserting a participial phrase and comma in the correct place. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Punctuate Sentences with Appositives
- Grade:
- 6
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying appositives. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentence, looking for noun phrases. Then, they identify if the noun is followed by an appositive, insert a comma to separate the appositive from the rest of the sentence and read it aloud. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.