This printable Commas in a Series activity pack transforms your grammar activities and makes learning comma rules and practicing punctuation rules fun! Includes an interactive, hands-on grammar activity to separate items in a series and a Scoot activity that gets kids up out of their seats and collaborating with peers. Also included are two independent punctuation practice worksheets: Sentence Fix-Up and Complete the Sentence. Who knew the Oxford comma could be this fun!

These activities are perfect for upper elementary and middle school students to review before state testing and can be done as a whole class activity, small group guided instruction, partner practice, or independent assignment that will keep your young writers engaged and learning the whole time. Differentiating for a wide range of student abilities is easy with this resource. **Please note that all 4 of the different activities use the same 20 sentences.

What's Included?

• Teacher Directions

• 20 sentence starters

• 60 Words or phrases

• 20 and conjunctions and 20 or conjunctions

• 40 commas

• 40 periods

• 20 Scoot Commas in a Series Task Cards

• Scoot Worksheets

• Complete the Sentence worksheets

• Sentence Fix Up worksheets

• Answer Key

How to Prep Your Materials

Simply print the activity pages that you want, then cut the cards apart. The worksheets are all print and go resources.

In My Classroom:

I used the hands-on activity with my 4th and 5th graders as test prep for next week's end of year state test. All 30 Students were paired up and given one sentence starter. The phrases the students needed in order to complete their sentences were placed in plastic eggs (1 phrase per egg) and scattered around our classroom. Students searched for the eggs that held the phrases they needed to complete their sentences. This part was surprisingly a little tricky for my kids. Some kids got so dang excited about building sentences but totally forgot to read the sentences to make sure they made sense. To alleviate this issue, you might want to place all 3 phrases in the same plastic egg. The activity took a bit of time due to all of the revisions we needed to make before every team found and built their correct sentence. At the end of the lesson, I created 4 new sentences for the kids to complete, so that I could be sure they understood the concept fully. ***NOTE: Completing this hands-on activity in a guided small group would allow the students a bit more flexibility with their sentences, since some of the phrases can fit in more than one sentence.

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I'd love to hear how you use this resource in your classroom! Feel free to email me at iteachiwrite@yahoo.com with any questions or suggestions you may have.

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