Blendspace: Commas

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Activity Description

Blendspace is an instructional tool that allows you to gather web resources in one place, to assess students with built-in quizzes, and to monitor their progress. It is a one-stop organizational tool for your class! Students can access the lessons from their devices, in the classroom or school lab. Blendspace also has numerous shared lessons to browse.

The GED Reasoning Through Language Arts assessment test measures a student’s command of a foundational set of conventions of standard English that include the essential components of grammar, usage, capitalization, and punctuation. On the HiSET, students will be asked to make revision choices concerning the organization, diction and clarity, sentence structure, usage, and mechanics.

Preparation

1. Make sure the site is not blocked at your school.
2. Review the lesson online.
3. Get your own account at Blendspace .
4. Watch the tutorial videos on the Web site that will guide you as you create your first lesson. (You will need to scroll down to see the videos.)
5. Create an optional worksheet on commas for further practice or assessment, or use one of these:
   • Grammar Bytes Commas > Choose Comma Splices or Commas
   • Practice Comma Quiz
   • Grammar Book Commas Quiz
6. Feel free to browse the numerous lessons available on Blendspace or to create your own lesson.
7. Provide students with a link to the lesson via e-mail, a class Web site, or a bookmark on their computers.. If you have a classroom Web site, you can post a link there. Blendspace also allows you to embed the lesson, e-mail the link, or use a QR code.

How-To

1. Introduce the lesson and explain why commas are important.
2. Demonstrate how to access the lesson.
3. Demonstrate how to comment on the lesson if you created your own lesson and will be using this feature.
4. Give students time to work through the lesson.
5. Discuss the lesson and what they learned. This may be on a different day.

Teacher Tips

• Have students create lessons to teach the material to each other. Share them with the class and evaluate as a group.

More Ways

• Graphite offers teacher made 'flows' of different ways Blendspace could be used.

Program Areas

• ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation
• ABE: Adult Basic Education
• ASE: High School Diploma

Levels

• Intermediate
• High

Subjects

• Reasoning Through Language Arts
  • Essays
  • Mechanics (Capitalization, Punctuation, Spelling)
• Writing
  • Mechanics (Capitalization, Punctuation, Spelling)

Standards

• Language
  • CCR Anchor 1 - Demonstrate command of the conventions of English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
  • CCR Anchor 2 - Demonstrate command of the conventions of English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

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