Grammar (Comma Chameleon)
You use a comma to separate three or more of these in a sentence, like "apples, bananas, and oranges."
What are items in a list (or series)?
This shape has exactly three sides and three angles.
What is a triangle?
This tool on a map looks like a star and shows you which way is North, South, East, and West.
What is a compass rose?
Greg Heffley writes and draws about his hilarious middle school struggles in this book series.
What is Diary of a Wimpy Kid?
He created Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and a magical theme park in Florida.
Who is Walt Disney?
In the date January 1, 2024, the comma goes between the day and this.
What is the year?
This shape has four equal sides and four right angles.
What is a square?
This box on a map unlocks the meaning of all the little pictures and symbols, like showing you that a tent picture means a campground.
What is a map key (or legend)?
A spider saves her best friend, a pig named Wilbur, by writing words in her web in this classic book.
What is Charlotte's Web?
He is the rhyming author who brought us the Grinch, the Lorax, and the Cat in the Hat.
Who is Dr. Seuss (or Theodor Geisel)?
When writing your address, you must put a comma between the city and this. (Example: Milford, Michigan).
What is the state?
If you look closely at a traditional soccer ball, you will see it is made up of hexagons and these five-sided shapes.
What is a pentagon?
This invisible line circles the middle of the Earth like a belt and sits at exactly 0 degrees latitude.
What is the Equator?
This famous wizard discovers he has magic powers and goes to school at Hogwarts.
Who is Harry Potter?
This famous 16th U.S. President wore a tall stovepipe hat and is on the face of the penny.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This is where the comma goes in the sentence: "No I do not want to go to bed early."
Where is after the word "No"? (No, I do not...)
Next time you are driving with your parents, look for a red STOP sign to see this eight-sided polygon.
What is an octagon?
While latitude lines run east and west, these lines run up and down from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What are lines of longitude?
In this book series, a boy discovers his dad is Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea.
Who is Percy Jackson (or Percy Jackson and the Olympians)?
He is a legendary basketball player who won six championships with the Chicago Bulls and wears the number 23.
Who is Michael Jordan?
You use a comma right before you open a set of these marks to show someone is speaking, like: He said, "Hello!"
What are quotation marks?
This is the general math word for any closed 2D shape with straight sides, including triangles, squares, and hexagons.
What is a polygon?
These are the four "in-between" directions on a compass rose, like Northeast and Southwest.
What are intermediate directions?
This book tells the story of Auggie Pullman, a boy with a facial difference who goes to a mainstream school for the first time.
What is Wonder?
She is the British author who invented the game of Quidditch and wrote the Harry Potter series.
Who is J.K. Rowling?