Comma Practice Worksheet for Kids: Separating Items in a List!

How to use this worksheet

Read the unpunctuated list sentences aloud together first, pausing naturally where a comma should go. Have your child add a comma after each item in the list using their pencil, leaving the word 'and' before the last item comma-free unless the sentence calls for it. After correcting the given sentences, ask your child to write their own sentence listing three classmates' names, adding commas between each name and a period at the end.

Materials needed

• Pencil

Extension activities

• 1Dictate a grocery list of four items and have your child write it with commas in the right places.
• 2Search a favorite picture book together for sentences that list several items, circling every comma you find.
• 3Play 'comma detective': read sentences aloud, some missing commas, and have your child clap wherever a pause belongs.
• 4Ask your child to name their three favorite toys, then write the sentence together and place the commas as they speak.