5th Grade Punctuation Worksheets

Periods, commas, apostrophes, and quotation marks in the right places. These are the punctuation skills we cover at the 5th grade level. Every sheet prints as a PDF with its answer key, and no two prints are the same.

Punctuation skills for 5th grade

Commas After Introductory Phrases Fix it & Choose the sentence · answer key When a sentence starts with a warm-up phrase, a comma marks where the real sentence begins: After the storm, we raked the yard.
Commas in Compound Sentences Fix it & Choose the sentence · answer key When two complete sentences join with and, but, or, so, or yet, a comma goes before the joining word: It rained, so we read inside.

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