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Lesson 1.10: Beginning Commas Print Lesson

$7.00

Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted child where and when to use commas.

Teach your child how to distinguish key grammatical units, including independent clauses, dependent clauses, appositives, and more, and how to stitch together these units using commas (or not!). Lesson 1.10: Beginning commas introduces kids to foundational comma conventions while continuing their work on fiction writing and poetry, with a particular focus on setting description. Our lessons combine original writing challenges, editing challenges, and multiple-choice questions that tease their powerful brains. We minimize repetition and draw on the deep wisdom of cats.

Included in this booklet:

✔️ 1 fun video lesson
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill
✔️ End of lesson quiz
✔️ Answer key: Robust explanations of the answers plus tips for assessing your child’s original writing

When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with a PDF booklet to download.

Length: 104 pages

Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted child where and when to use commas.

Teach your child how to distinguish key grammatical units, including independent clauses, dependent clauses, appositives, and more, and how to stitch together these units using commas (or not!). Lesson 1.10: Beginning commas introduces kids to foundational comma conventions while continuing their work on fiction writing and poetry, with a particular focus on setting description. Our lessons combine original writing challenges, editing challenges, and multiple-choice questions that tease their powerful brains. We minimize repetition and draw on the deep wisdom of cats.

Included in this booklet:

✔️ 1 fun video lesson
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill
✔️ End of lesson quiz
✔️ Answer key: Robust explanations of the answers plus tips for assessing your child’s original writing

When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with a PDF booklet to download.

Length: 104 pages

Skills in focus:

Commas

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

  • Convention #1: Use commas to join ideas and words into a longer sentence.

    • Joining independent clauses

    • Joining a dependent and an independent clause

    • After introductory words and phrases

    • Setting off a direct address

    • Setting off appositives

      • Restrictive

      • Non-restrictive

  • Convention #2: Lists and series of three or more words

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

  • Convention #3: Addresses

  • Convention #4: 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.