The more familiar your kid is with the uses of commas, the better her writing will be! This punctuation worksheet shows how commas join independent clauses.
Earth Day is a time to raise awareness and appreciation for the environment. Use this Earth Day themed grammar resource with your students to practice editing sentences with a focus on punctuation.
Kids will practice their editing skills by adding punctuation to the story. Read about the new girl at school while adding periods, commas, and quotation marks.
Get into grammar Halloween-style with a creepy comma worksheet! Your student will add missing commas to the sentences, making the writing easier to follow.
Practice punctuation the fun way this Halloween! With this ghoulish grammar sheet your child will have to add missing punctuation marks to this witch's potion.
Young editors will read "Josie's Garden" and add commas, periods, and quotation marks. Practice with punctuation perfectly in this punctuation worksheet.
As you know, an introductory phrase sets the stage for the rest of the sentence. Use this resource to teach your students how to use introductory phrases as they cite text evidence when making predictions.
Get familiar with commas in this worksheet all about non-identifying clauses! Your kid will use commas to offset the non-identifying clauses on this worksheet.
Does your sentence need to take a break? Let a comma help. Commas being signals for pauses in sentences is a common misconception -- that isn’t all they do. The little comma has a lot of uses: it can break up lists of items, connect clauses, and make way for quotations. Learn how to use this versatile piece of punctuation with our worksheets and more on comma usage.
Punctuation is a skill that can sometimes escape even the most experienced writer. While punctuation at the end of a sentence can be pretty straightforward, putting punctuation in a sentence can be more complex. One punctuation device that is commonly misused is the comma.
At its simplest, a comma is used to break a sentence into logical and more manageable segments. Here are a few of the rules for using commas:
Use commas whenever independent clauses are joined to form a compound clause with a coordinating conjunction.
When the main clause is preceded by any introductory element (clauses, phrases, or words) a comma should separate them.
Whenever a clause, phrase, or word is unnecessary to the main clause, it should be preceded by and followed by a comma.
When listing a series of three or more clauses, phrases, or words, use a comma to separate them. Keep in mind, the conjunction that is between the final two elements in the series should be preceded by a comma.
Commas should be used to separate two or more coordinate adjectives when they describe the same noun.
When using dialogue, the quotation and the main clause should be separated by a comma.
As with most rules associated with writing and grammar, there are times when, contextually, the above rules can be broken. Working with your students using the resources provided by Education.com above may help them, not only know when and how to use commas, but also when it’s optional or even discouraged.
