5th Grade Grammar Unit: Commas and Introductory Elements
4.9 (181 reviews)This resource includes everything you need to teach your students to use a comma to separate an introductory element (e.g., words, phrases, clauses) from the rest of a sentence. Now Included: Google Forms for the Practice Printable, Task Cards, and Assessment! What’s Included: PowerPoint Lesson…
- Grade
- Grade 5
- Subject
- Grammar
- Pages
- 40
- Answer key
- Included
- Teaching duration
- 1 Week
- Digital download
- PDF, PowerPoint, and Excel (ZIP)
Description
This resource includes everything you need to teach your students to use a comma to separate an introductory element (e.g., words, phrases, clauses) from the rest of a sentence.
Now Included: Google Forms for the Practice Printable, Task Cards, and Assessment!
What’s Included:
- PowerPoint Lesson (Monday)
- Practice Printable – Digital Version Included (Tuesday)
- 30 Task Cards – Digital Version Included (Wednesday)
- Sketch Notes (Thursday)
- Assessment – Digital Version Included (Friday)
- BONUS: Interactive Notebook Activity
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Fifth Grade Grammar Units:
- Parts of Speech Review
- Subject and Predicate
- Coordinating Conjunctions
- Compound Sentences
- Subordinating Conjunctions
- Complex Sentences
- Simple, Compound, or Complex Sentences
- Prepositions
- Prepositional Phrases
- Interjections
- Perfect Verb Tenses
- Using Verb Tenses
- Shifts in Verb Tense
- Correlative Conjunctions
- Commas in a Series
- Commas and Introductory Elements
- Commas for Yes/No, Tag Questions & Direct Address
- Titles of Works: Quotations, Underlines & Italics
- Expand Sentences
Coming Soon:
- Combine Sentences
- Reduce Sentences
- Compare Dialects
- Compare Registers
- Context Clues
- Roots and Affixes
- Use Reference Materials
- Similes and Metaphors
- Idioms, Adages, and Proverbs
- Word Analogies
- Signal Words
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Reviews
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Not appropriate for beginning of the year
This is very hard for me to implement until almost the third quarter. Week one has decimals, and my fourth graders don't learn about decimals until the third quarter. It also jumps into division and bigger multiplication early. I wish it had a few weeks of third-grade review.
Affixes Resource Pack
This was not exactly what I was looking for for a supplemental resource for my 5th grade class.
Not a "spiral" review
I wanted to like this so much because it was exactly what I wanted. But, Week 1 already starts talking about coordinate grids and volume, standards that aren't covered until later on in the school year. I wish it was organized by the order the standards are taught throughout the school year instead of introducing end-of-year concepts in the first few weeks.
Great Activities, but Limited Direct Instruction
This resource is advertised as a week-long unit, but in practice it functions more like one day of direct instruction followed by several activity days. There is only one PowerPoint for teaching, with the remaining materials focused on practice.
I expected a more balanced structure with instruction and assessment spread across multiple days. For example, I was able to use the PowerPoint and the second day’s worksheet within a single class period, and the “scoot” activity worked well for a separate day. However, I’m unsure how I’ll incorporate the remaining sketch notes, which might have been more effective if directly integrated into the initial instruction.
One major area for improvement is alignment between instruction and assessment. The assessments and task cards include concepts like “to be” verbs and auxiliary verbs, but these are not introduced or modeled in the PowerPoint. This created confusion for my students and could easily be developed into an additional day of instruction.
Overall, the materials are well-designed and engaging, but the unit would benefit from more comprehensive instruction and clearer alignment between teaching and assessment.
This starts off Running
I thought the assessments would get progressively harder but I do not feel I could start these assessments with my students week 1. I may be able to start them mid year
Questions & Answers (4)
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Hello, I am correcting my assessments and struggling with question 1. The answer key says that the introductory element, "To get better," (sentence 1) is a clause. Can you tell me why this is true? To me, it mirrors the "To get in shape for the Olympics," phrase from the PowerPoint. Nothing like being humbled by 5th-grade grammar! :) Thank you.
Hello, Laura! Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention. This was an error in the assessment answer key. It should have been labeled "phrase." I apologize for this inconvenience.
Hello, I just went through the PowerPoint for this lesson with my students, and there are a couple of mistakes on Slide 10 that I wanted to inform you of:
"In the spring, we will plant strawberries in garden." -there needs to be a word before garden like "our garden," "the garden," etc.
and
"Surprisingly, the sugar-free desserts where delicious." -it should be "were" not "where"
Hello! Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention. We have corrected the errors and apologize for the inconvenience they caused you.
Hi, I am having difficulty with the digital version of the task cards. I made a copy and assigned in my student's google classroom. They completed the task and submitted it but they cannot see their accuracy and their score does not show up for me. I am rather new using google classroom so hoping you can maybe help. I have purchased several of these from you. Thank you.
Hi There! Please check out this short video tutorial that will walk you through the steps: https://youtu.be/hNqZElFIQ3I
In your sketch notes, you've stated that an introductory clause can stand alone. However, the examples you give begin with dependent clauses, and these cannot stand alone. I may have misunderstood the notes...could you clarify this for me? Thanks!
