SMART Technologies
Smart: Commas in a Series and Dates
In this practice exercise, students add commas in a series and dates as needed.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Using Commas in Dates and With Single Words
Eight printable worksheets about using commas in a series, and seven printable worksheets about using commas in dates are available with answer keys.
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Commas in a Series [Pdf]
Students practice correct comma usage with ten sentences in which commas are missing from lists of words in this downloadable PDF.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Using a Comma Before "And" in a Series
This article discusses the correct use of a comma before the word "and" in a list. In addition to clear explanations and examples, there is a self-test with answers. L.11-12.1a Gram/Usage changes, L.11-12.1b Usage issues
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Commas in a Series
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explains how to use commas in a series through an interactive website, structured practice and then assessment through an Activote session.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing a Series
This resource is designed to enhance the teaching of grammar in the context of reading and writing by using mentor sentences. In this resource, mentor sentences, or sentences that highlight a grammatical point, were chosen primarily from...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Commas
This comma tutorial include 5 slideshows: 1. how and when to use or not use commas, 2. proper use of commas in coordinating clauses, 3. proper use of commas in lists, 4. proper use of commas in introductory phrases, and 5. proper use of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Commas in Dialogue, Tag Ques, Direct Address & Yes or No Responses
Find and use commas to set off dialogue, in tag questions, for direct address, and for yes-and-no responses.
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Using Commas in Sentences [Pdf]
Students write their own sentences that each includes a series of words to punctuate correctly.
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Bbc: Skillswise: Using Commas [Pdf]
Use this BBC Skillswise factsheet to learn more about commas, including how to use them in a series and how to separate less important parts of a sentence.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Cool, Cool Commas
This tutorial focuses on 4 basic comma rules that cover 85% of all comma use: series, compound sentences, direct address, and introductory clauses. It provides an audio clip explaining these 4 rules and 5 short slide shows: one for each...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Grammar's Great Divide: The Oxford Comma
If you read "Bob, a DJ and a clown" on a guest list, are three people coming to the party, or only one? That depends on whether you're for or against the Oxford comma- perhaps the most hotly contested punctuation mark of all time. When...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Meet the Comma
Commas separate parts of sentences from each other, and they do so in many different ways.
Other
Tls Books: Letter From San Diego [Pdf]
A printable instructional activity for students to practice their skill in using commas and capital letters.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Readability: Conjunctions and Lists
This lesson focuses on recognizing and demonstrating the standard use of commas with coordinating conjunctions and items in a series. It also provides a practice activity.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Comma Usage
This page focuses on some of uses for commas and provides examples of each. These rules include separating items in a series, separating repeating words, to offset information, noun of address, and even change nouns to verbs.
Get It Write
Get It Write: When to Use a Comma Before "And"
Follow the clear instructions in this article to make sure that you use a comma before "and" correctly. The page includes a self-test with answers.
Other
Book Units Teacher: Teaching Comma Rules
Lots of ideas for teaching Grade 5 students about commas. Includes an anchor chart showing the comma rules they need to understand, four videos, an idea for making a comma rules booklet, and links to additional resources.
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online: Comma Rules
Use this site for recognizing when to use commas. Includes examples.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Elc Study Zone: Using Commas
Do you know how to use commas properly? Use this website to learn more about these pesky punctuation marks.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Comma Before And
This page focuses on the use of a comma before the word "and." It explains using a comma between items in a series with the use of "and" and before "and" when it is in front of an independent clause. Examples are provided.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Parallel Structure
Parallel structure is a stylistic choice to make verbs in a sentence maintain a pattern.