Commas in a Series, Dates, Letters and Locations Activities

Teaching students to use commas and commas in a series is easy and fun with these engaging activities! This 2nd grade grammar resource includes a full week of commas worksheets, practice activities, PowerPoint lesson, task cards, and assessment to easily teach the correct use of commas in a series, commas in dates, in letters and when writing locations like cities and states. Students learn to recognize where commas should be used and generate examples, so they can use commas correctly in their writing. This unit includes short daily practice in a variety of fun formats your students will enjoy.

This simple 5-day routine allows you to teach, practice and assess your students in 15 minutes or less each day. The daily routine includes whole group practice and partner activities. The easy to grade worksheet is ideal for reinforcement, morning work, or homework. A grammar-based reading passage gives students the opportunity to identify where commas should be used. Students apply what they’re learning in a writing activity with three different formats for easy differentiation. Students are assessed with a short, easy to grade assessment.

Daily grammar practice routine

• Monday: Using commas mini lesson on PowerPoint with interactive practice slides
• Tuesday: Practice worksheet
• Wednesday: Commas and commas in a series task cards
• Thursday: Reading passage and writing activity
• Friday: Assessment

Here’s what you’ll get:

•  A teaching PowerPoint with daily slides for the mini-lesson and moveable practice activities
•  Detailed instructions, teacher’s notes, lesson plan & answer keys
•  Commas practice worksheet
•  Grammar-based reading passage
•  Writing activity
•  Task cards and recording sheet
•  Assessment
•  Poster

All the activities in this unit are intentionally designed to be very simple, with easy to understand activities for students, and easy to grade papers for the teacher. The materials require very little prep or no prep at all. In fact, the only thing you’ll need to do is make copies and cut out a few straight lines on the task cards. Teaching grammar has never been easier!

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