List Commas - Bang
An engaging and effective game, List Commas Bang is the perfect activity to help develop student understanding of list commas. Suitable for all ability levels, students draw a card, read the sentence and say how many commas are missing. Watch out for the ‘bang’ cards, if you pick one up you have to return all your cards to the pile. The student with the most cards at the end is the winner. Add or reduce the ‘bang’ cards to adjust the difficulty of the game.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to understand the purpose of punctuation in different sentence types.
- We are learning to recognise that capital letters signal proper nouns and commas are used to separate items in lists.
Curriculum alignment
EN1-9B
old
Uses basic grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary appropriate to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
EN1-OLC-01
new
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
EN1-REFLU-01
new
Sustains reading unseen texts with automaticity and prosody and self-corrects errors
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
Use a support person to supervise and explain the game to children.
Extensions
Increase or decrease the amount of ‘bang’ cards.
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