Lesson 1.10: Beginning Commas Digital Package

$19.99

Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted learners how to use commas.

Included in this package:

✔️ 1 fun video lesson: Ready to share with your student(s) with no additional setup
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill: Assign using SeeSaw or use as printouts
✔️ 1 end-of-lesson quiz: Automatic grading for multiple-choice questions and an easy-to-grade writing challenge.
✔️ Robust teacher’s guide: Includes detailed tips and tricks for teaching each activity, answer keys, scoring recommendations, and more.

Suitable for one-on-one use or small group or classroom settings. Our teacher guide gives you tips and support for each method.

When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with links to all of the above.

Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted learners how to use commas.

Included in this package:

✔️ 1 fun video lesson: Ready to share with your student(s) with no additional setup
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill: Assign using SeeSaw or use as printouts
✔️ 1 end-of-lesson quiz: Automatic grading for multiple-choice questions and an easy-to-grade writing challenge.
✔️ Robust teacher’s guide: Includes detailed tips and tricks for teaching each activity, answer keys, scoring recommendations, and more.

Suitable for one-on-one use or small group or classroom settings. Our teacher guide gives you tips and support for each method.

When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with links to all of the above.

Resources included in your purchases:

  • Video lesson

  • Practice 1.10.1: Claws

  • Practice 1.10.2: The perfect place for commas

  • Practice 1.10.3: Snicker-Snack

  • Practice 1.10.4: Real-world commas

  • Quiz 1.10.5: Beginning commas

  • Teacher Guide

  • Robust support from June Writers Academy

Skills in focus:

Commas

  • Commas separate or join words or thoughts within a sentence, usually to clarify the meaning of the sentence. 

  • Use commas to join ideas and words into a longer sentence.

    • Joining independent clauses

    • Joining a dependent and an independent clause

    • After introductory words or phrases

    • Setting off a direct address

    • Setting off appositives

      • Restrictive

      • Non-restrictive

        • Non-restrictive appositives can also be offset by em dashes or parentheses

  • Use commas to separate items in a list of three or more words

    • The Oxford comma and its impact on the meaning of a sentence

  • Use commas to separate the street, city, and state in addresses

  • Use commas to separate the day from the year in dates

  • When in doubt, ask yourself if your reader will misunderstand the meaning of your sentence without the comma or if their brain would be overwhelmed, and remember that less is more.

Setting

  • Great stories often have settings that are tightly connected to the main character and villain.

  • Use your setting to help tell the story—and, especially, to show what’s happening inside your main character.