#3451. Comma in a series

Language, level: Elementary
Posted Tue Apr 12 17:31:23 PDT 2005 by Anjanee John (anjaneejohn599@hotmail.com).
Trinidad
Materials Required: Sentence strip, comma word cards
Activity Time: 25-30 minutes
Concepts Taught: • The comma is used to separate items in a list or words in a series

Teacher's Strategies
• Teacher :
• presents a sentence on the board and reads quickly for the pupils e.g. Mummy invited Jesse Jill Jerry John Jane and Jack to my party.
• questions pupils on how many pupils Mummy invited and how can they tell.
• questions to elicit from pupils that to make reading and understanding sentences easier the comma can be used to indicate a brief pause.
• rewrites the sentence with the comma
• displays some more examples on the board where the comma is used to separate items in a list or words in a series
• guides pupils in identifying that the comma is used to separate items in a list or words in a series except before the word "and" in the series.

• SECTION 11
Group Activity

• groups pupils in twos to complete an activity sheet
• writes sentences on the board.
• allows pupils to draw in comma on sentences presented .

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