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Commas
3rd Grade
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Arkansas Academic Standards:
3.L.21.C
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Use commas in items in a series. |
Arkansas Academic Standards:
3.L.22.C
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Use commas in addresses. |
Arkansas Academic Standards:
3.L.23.C
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Use a comma before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence. |
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 3rd Grade Writing - Commas Lesson
- Quotation Marks
- Quotation marks are used whenever a quote (the words someone else said) or dialogue (the words a character or person is saying) is used in a text.
Quotation marks are used around the exact words a speaker said in a text.
Example: “Eat your veggies,” my mom said.
In this sentence, the exact words the mom said were “Eat your veggies,” so they are put inside a pair of quotation marks.
- Comma
- Commas are used in many different ways in writing. Commas are used with:
1. A comma comes before and/or after a person’s name when he or she is being addressed (or talked to).
Example: Britni, help your little sister get ready.
Example: Help your little sister get ready, Britni.
Britni is being addressed, or talked to, in these sentences, so a comma comes before or after her name.
2. A comma comes before quotation marks when who or what is speaking comes before a quote.
Example: The principal warned, “Don’t run in the halls.”
The principal is speaking, and a comma is used before quotation marks that show exactly what he or she said.
3. A comma comes at the end of a quote, and before quotation marks, when who or what is speaking comes after the quote
Example: “Don’t run in the halls,” the principal warned.
A comma is used before the final quotation marks because the quote comes before who or what is speaking.
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