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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CLICK HERE for the entire Fifth-Grade Grammar Bundle!
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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I purchased this resources to use with my students that are distance learning. I saw the standards that were included and purchased it with the assumption that I would be able to find the standard that I was teaching and give the assessment/quiz for that specific standard. While the material is good, I do NOT like the set up and it does NOT allow me to use it in the way that I want. It is set up weekly with NO table of contents. I did not intend to use it weekly. I thought that I would be able to use it for the standard that I was teaching. If you want to do a spiral review at the end of the year after you have taught every standard, then this would be a good resource. However, if you are wanting a product that will you will be able to use per standard, do not waste your time. Each link is just a link with no idea what you are downloading. I am going to keep looking for a product that I can use.
Good resource, but too few lessons are drilled throughout the year. It'd be great if more grammar lessons were incorporated.
The file is in a PDF. I wanted to modify it by using each page as a background in slides and then placing text boxes over it where I wished students to write or place images. I got the free extension small PDF to convert the files into PNG files but the document is too large. I tried several other extensions but nothing would work without paying additional money. I reached out to the seller to give me the document in PNG, or to break it in 10 page segments so I could use it. She refused. Now I am stuck doing screenshots which come out blurry.
This was WAY too difficult to start the year with. It would have been much better to spiral at the beginning with the standards from the grade level below, rather than starting with the end of year standards.
<p>This resource is not designed around a particular scope and sequence since many teachers follow different timelines.</p><p>Since Daily Spiral Reviews cover all standards, students are exposed to concepts they may not have had formal instruction on. Unfamiliar content presents a great opportunity for you to build background knowledge and assess where your students are before you even teach a specific lesson.</p><p>The best way to use this spiral reveiw is to begin with whole-group lessons where you model and discuss each activity. I don't worry too much if there haven't been formal lessons on a particular concept; I treat those items more as a preview. After a few weeks, the students really start grasping the format, and you can begin to transfer the workload to them. Eventually, when the students work independently on the review, you will spend time correcting and discussing their work in class. </p><p>As mentioned above, students will encounter concepts they are unfamiliar with. This is a GOOD thing, I promise! We don't always have the answers or know the procedures to solve problems. It's beneficial to expose students to "unknowns"; they become less sensitive to the uncomfortable feeling of "not knowing" and are less likely to panic. </p><p>However, you can always use the editable version (open in PowerPoint) to remove/change any review items you like.</p>
I really like this-like others have said, I haven't found a way to have students record their name so that makes it somewhat unusable.
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!




