Commas in a list - Complete Grammar Lesson with Activities!

This is a full lesson teaching how to use commas in a list, complete with consolidation activities. No printing required - all the activities and answer slides are in the PowerPoint.

Commas are used to separate items in a list and are used in place of the words ‘and’ or ‘or’. The items in the list will be of the same word type (verbs, nouns, adjectives etc.) and we often place ‘and’ before the final item in a list, except when the list consists of adjectives.

This resource is a PowerPoint presentation which includes the activities you need to teach children how to use commas to separate items in a list.

The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective
√ Three success criteria
√ Starter activity - assessment for learning
√ Teaching input - explaining how to place commas in a list
√ Whole class consolidation activity
√ Questions and challenges to extend learning
√ Differentiated independent consolidation activities (3 levels)
√ All answer slides to activities and questions
√ Plenary - reasoning task

PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.

This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.