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Behind the Lunch Counter: Commas in a Series

Grade 5 punctuation practice: find the items in a series and place the commas in sentences about helping the cooks in a school cafeteria.

Grade 5ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.5.2.a

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

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students use commas to separate words, phrases, and clauses in a series.
Students tell whether a sentence has a series and how many commas it needs.
Students write a sentence with a correctly punctuated series.

How to use

Read the rule box together and do the first circle question as a class. Then let students finish on their own and share their salad bar sentences.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.5.2.a

Use punctuation to separate items in a series.

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Behind the Lunch Counter: Commas in a Series

Find the items in each list and put the commas where they belong.

Circle the comma spots

A series is a list of three or more words or groups of words in one sentence. Put a comma after each item in the series except the last one. Also put a comma before the and or or that comes before the last item. A list of only two items does not need a comma.

Tariq and Lena are spending Friday morning in the school cafeteria. They are helping the cooks get lunch ready. The sentences in the first two parts of this page have no commas yet.

Circle each word that should have a comma right after it.

Thecookswearapronshairnetsandgloves.

Circle each word that should have a comma right after it.

Lenawashesthepearspeelstheorangesandslicesthemelons.

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