As middle and high schoolers experiment with their writing styles, it's easy to slip in a few accidental sentence fragments. After reading a full-page of information regarding how to identify and avoid sentence fragments, learners...

Tired of finding sentence fragments in your students' writing? Use this straightforward activity to help them identify when a sentence is not complete. Sixteen sentences prompt learners to rewrite fragments as parts of a complete...

Reinforce writing and language skills with a grammar worksheet that focuses on determining whether a sentence is complete or a fragment.  

Complement your lesson on sentence structure with a sentence fragment handout. While it is not interactive, learners could use it as a reference to help identify sentence fragments as they edit their own work.

Do your young writers need a little help varying their sentence structure? Have them work on common errors, sentence fluency, and writing patterns with a series of language arts activities. The resource includes reading passages as well...

The country of Egypt is more than just big pyramids and ancient pharaohs. After reading a brief overview of this African nation, young learners will demonstrate their understanding of the text by identifying the main idea and supporting...

Review word choice and grammar skills with this practice test for the Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT). Fifteen multiple-choice questions prompt eighth graders to recall writing strategies, grammar skills, and...

Reinforce literacy skills using a six-sided die that focuses on phonics and story starters. Scholars roll, and show what they know about blends, plots, and more! 

A handout to guide peer editors, this checklist delineates common problems with paragraph structure and specific proofreading items to check. It also provides encouragement about the collaborative part of the writing process. Formats...

This slideshow lesson focuses on the appropriateness of sentence fragments. It defines sentence fragments and discusses how writers use them: to gain the reader's attention, to emphasize an important word or phrase, to answer a question,...

This interactive lesson engages students in determining "why" each word grouping is a sentence fragment. The lesson involves moving a computer's mouse from each fragment to the reason the word grouping is an incomplete thought.

This slideshow lesson focuses on sentence fragments and how to correct them. It defines fragments, gives two methods for identifying them, provides various ways to correct them with examples, and discusses subordinators and fragments...

This instructional activity focuses on recognizing sentence fragments and demonstrating revision for sentence fragments. It discusses common causes of fragments and ways to fix them, as well as, providing practice activity.

This lesson focuses on the intentional use of sentence fragments. It offers a YouTube video asking the viewer to spot the fragments, and a PowerPoint presentation listing 5 appropriate uses of fragments: to get the reader's attention, to...

A learning module with three lessons, four practice exercises, and a summary designed to teach what sentence fragments are and how they can be corrected.

What is a sentence fragment and a run-on sentence? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Students and teachers can utilize this informative site to improve their writing skills.

This lesson discusses sentence fragments and how to use them appropriately. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Appropriateness of Sentence Fragments."

This lesson goes over how to identify and correct sentence fragments. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Correcting Sentence Fragments."

This lessons introduces sentence fragments. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Sentence Fragments."

During this interactive lesson, students will determine the number of finite verbs in each sentence or fragment.

What are sentence fragments and run-on sentences? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Provides techniques for avoiding fragments and run-ons in writing assignments.

This lesson will give students tools and tips to edit sentence structure so that fragments and run-on sentences will not hamper their writing.

This lesson focuses on sentence structure including the parts of a sentence, types of sentences, sentence patterns, run-on sentences, fragments, phrases and clauses, and much more. It also includes a video, practices, and a self-check.

This lesson focuses on sentence errors like fragments, run-ons, comma splices, and fused sentences. It expains these errors, provides examples, and offers an interactive practice activity.