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Notes on the Lobby Board: Fixing Commas in a Series

Grade 5 punctuation practice: fix commas in a series in neighbors' notes on an apartment lobby board, then write a note of your own.

Grade 5ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.5.2.a

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1 Common Core standard
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10 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 5
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students find and fix comma mistakes in sentences with a series.
Students decide whether a group of words is a series that needs commas.
Students use commas to show where each item in a series begins and ends.

How to use

Go over the rule box, then have students edit the notes on their own. Talk through the item-counting questions to show how commas group words into items.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.5.2.a

Use punctuation to separate items in a series.

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Notes on the Lobby Board: Fixing Commas in a Series

Edit neighbors' notes and decide which lists need commas.

Notes on the board

In a series of three or more items, a comma follows every item except the last one, and a comma comes before the and or or in front of the last item. No comma goes before the first item, right after and or or, or after the last item.

The lobby of Birchwood Apartments has a corkboard next to the mailboxes. Neighbors pin up notes there when they need help with small jobs. Jada read every note on the board after school. She spotted some comma mistakes and decided to help.

Read Mrs. Petrova's note. Underline each sentence that has a comma mistake.

I will be away from Friday until Sunday night.Please water my ferns feed my goldfish, and bring in my mail.My keys, the plant food, and the fish flakes are in a basket by my door.You may choose cash, banana bread, or a jar of plum jam, as your pay.Knock on door 3B if you can help.

Read Mr. Osei's note.
I am cleaning out the storage room on Saturday. I need a helper to carry boxes sweep the floor, and stack old newspapers. I will pay ten dollars.
One sentence is missing a comma. Write the word that should come right before the missing comma.

The missing comma goes after the word .

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