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Improve your reading skills by learning to identify and pause correctly at commas in sentences. This lesson focuses on understanding punctuation, emphasizing the importance of commas as indicators for pauses in reading. Through practice, you'll read sentences containing commas and assess your comprehension. Explore the experience of journalist Kate Mansey, who shares her insights on the challenges of stand-up comedy and the need for well-timed pauses. Prepare to enhance your reading fluency and punctuation awareness!
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Learning Objective. • To be able to read sentences to punctuation. • We will be able to read sentences which contain commas.
Commas • Where there is a comma in a sentencewe need to take a pause. ,
Practice • Read the following sentences. • Check that you have noted all the punctuation before you read . How hard can it be, I thought? Kate Mansey, journalist with the Journal explained, ‘I thought stand up comedy would be easy.’
A few days before the show, I tried out my jokes on some willing friends.Not a giggle, not a titter, came form their lips!So on Friday night, the day of my performance, I expected stony silence from the crowds.