Use commas according to the conventions of standard English.
Use a comma before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence.
Use commas in addresses.
Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
Arizona Academic Standards:
3.L.2.b
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.L.3.2b
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE3L2b
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
L.3.2.b
Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks:
L.3.2.c
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
L.3.2b
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
Tennessee Academic Standards:
3.FL.SC.6.k
Use commas in addresses.
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
L.3.2.b
Use commas in addresses
Arizona Academic Standards:
3.L.2.c
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.L.3.2c
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE3L2c
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
L.3.2.c
Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks:
L.3.2.d
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
L.3.2b
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
Tennessee Academic Standards:
3.FL.SC.6.l
Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
L.3.2.c
Use commas in dialogue
Use quotation marks in dialogue
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
L.3.6.b
quotation marks for speech, and
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.F
Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
E03.D.1.1.1 - Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
E03.D.1.1.2 - Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
E03.D.1.1.3 - Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).
E03.D.1.1.4 - Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
E03.D.1.1.5 - Form and use the simple verb tenses (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk).
E03.D.1.1.6 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement. *
E03.D.1.1.7 - Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
E03.D.1.1.8 - Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
E03.D.1.1.9 - Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
E03.D.1.2.1 - Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
E03.D.1.2.2 -Use commas in addresses.
E03.D.1.2.3 - Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
E03.D.1.2.4 - Form and use possessives.
E03.D.1.2.5 - Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).
E03.D.1.2.6 - Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.L
Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling
E03.D.1.1.1 - Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
E03.D.1.1.2 - Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
E03.D.1.1.3 - Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).
E03.D.1.1.4 - Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
E03.D.1.1.5 - Form and use the simple verb tenses (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk).
E03.D.1.1.6 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement. *
E03.D.1.1.7 - Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
E03.D.1.1.8 - Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
E03.D.1.1.9 - Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
E03.D.1.2.1 - Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
E03.D.1.2.2 -Use commas in addresses.
E03.D.1.2.3 - Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
E03.D.1.2.4 - Form and use possessives.
E03.D.1.2.5 - Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).
E03.D.1.2.6 - Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.R
Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
E03.D.1.1.1 - Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
E03.D.1.1.2 - Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
E03.D.1.1.3 - Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).
E03.D.1.1.4 - Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
E03.D.1.1.5 - Form and use the simple verb tenses (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk).
E03.D.1.1.6 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement. *
E03.D.1.1.7 - Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
E03.D.1.1.8 - Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
E03.D.1.1.9 - Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
E03.D.1.2.1 - Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
E03.D.1.2.2 -Use commas in addresses.
E03.D.1.2.3 - Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
E03.D.1.2.4 - Form and use possessives.
E03.D.1.2.5 - Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).
E03.D.1.2.6 - Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.3.C.3.1
Follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate to grade level.
Arkansas Academic Standards:
3.L.22.C
Use commas in addresses.
3rd Grade Writing - Commas and Quotation Marks 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.
3rd Grade Writing - Commas and Quotation Marks Lesson