CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.2b
The Standard
Use commas in addresses.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
What This Standard Means
Students need to place commas correctly when writing a full mailing address. They should know that commas separate the street address, city, and state when an address is written in a sentence or on one line.
Mastery looks like a student writing, “Send the letter to 24 Oak Street, Denver, Colorado,” without guessing where the commas go. Students often forget the comma between the city and state, or they put commas after every word. Some also confuse address commas with the line breaks used on an envelope.
Ways to Teach It
- Give students address cards and have them rewrite each one as a single sentence with commas in the right places.
- Ask students to explain why “Tampa Florida” needs a comma when it appears in a sentence.
- Show three one-line addresses, and have students mark each as correct or fix the comma errors.
- Have students write a postcard address from your school to a local library, then rewrite it in a sentence.
Plan a Lesson for CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.2b
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Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.2c
Use a comma before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.2c
Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.2b
Use commas in greetings and closings of letters.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.2c
Use commas in dates and to separate single words in a series.