Comma Teacher Resources

Use this exercise to determine your understanding of comma usage with introductory elements in sentences.

This slideshow lesson focuses on how semicolons are used in a series.

A very competent look at how to use abbreviations in their proper context. This site also examines the proper use of abbreviations with titles, numbers and phrases.

What is a semicolon and how do you use it in your writing? Check out this tutorial to learn more about this punctuation mark in English sentence structure.

Designed as a complement to Harcourt's Trophies Reading series, this handy grammar glossary allows you to look up grammar terms typically covered in grades 1-5. For each term, you will see a definition, sample sentence (sometimes...

Discover more about semicolon usage when you visit this informative resource. Students and teachers will benefit from the examples listed for semicolon use.

Watch a video and click through a nine-slide presentation to learn where commas came from, how they are used properly, and when they should not be used. [7:27]

This Grammarly Handbook resource explains how to use commas after introductory elements. Numerous examples of commas after introductory phrases, introductory clauses, and introductory transitions are provided in this resource.

This resource provides four worksheets that students can use to review the parts of a friendly letter. Each worksheet addresses the need for commas in designated parts of a letter.

This lesson focuses on recognizing and demonstrating the use of commas as separators including with transition words, descriptive phrases, and adjacent items. It also provides a practice activity.

Punctuation is the point of this lesson. You'll learn to put the right dots and squiggles in the appropriate places in your writing. You'll review the conventions of punctuation used in academic English. Then you will apply what you...

This is the Punctuation chapter from H.W. Fowler's The King?s English, 2nd ed. (1908), which provides the rules of use for British English punctuation in the early 20th century. Many of these rules still apply.

Watch Super Comma help to make lists and dates make more sense.

Rules and examples for using commas when writing a complex sentence.

This Grammarly Handbook resource explains how to use commas after introductory phrases in sentences.

Learn proofreading techniques to use in checking for correct punctuation.

Rather than lists of rules, this site provides practical advice on the use of commas, semicolons, dashes, hyphens, abbreviations, acronyms, split infinitives, "this," "that," italics, and underlining. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2

During this instructional activity students will have the opportunity to learn the proper way to use quotations and commas. They will view information on the Internet and participate in online activities to help them master this concept.

Basically, you can use commas at the beginning of sentences to set up an introduction.

In this activity, students add commas as needed to friendly letters. As they click where the commas belong a dragonfly or a butterfly inserts the commas.

This page, from an online guide to commas by a faculty member from the University of Victoria, explains the rules governing comma usage after introductory phrases.

Put in commas wherever they are needed in the seventeen sentences. Answers are included at the end of the exercise.

This punctuation quiz requires the student to insert necessary commas before comparing his or her version to the possible answers.

The first part of this site provides information and examples for the correct usage of the colon and the semicolon. The second part is an exercise. Click on "semi-colon" of "colon" to correctly punctuate the sentence. Then click on...