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Sentence Fragments
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...
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Foolish Fragments
The sixteen slides in this presentation thoroughly explain fragments in order to reinforce writing complete sentences. It includes many examples, as well as four multiple choice questions where students must decide which sentence is...
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Sentence Fragments
Looking to provide your fourth and fifth graders with a quick assessment on complete sentences? This six-question quiz is the perfect fast assessment. There are four sentences listed for each question, and the test-taker must decide...
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Fragments, Comma Splices, and Fused Sentences
This excellent resource has the audience focus on ways to create complete sentences. As the presentation progresses, they see many examples of sentences that are fragments, run-ons, and ones that are punctuated incorrectly. They then...
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Sentence Fragments
Can your learners identify a complete sentence? Read the 20 examples and indicate which sentences are complete and which are fragments. Then, follow the lead of the examples provided and have your learners indicate what each sentence...
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Sentence Fragments
Reinforce what constitutes a complete sentence using this presentation. Colorful arrows point to missing parts and clear explanations are presented for missing verbs or incorrect prepositional phrases. Avoid sentence fragments in writing...
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Sentence Fragments
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...
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Sentence Fragment Exercises #1
In this language arts learning exercise, students read 16 sentences and mark a C if the sentence is complete and an F is there is a sentence fragment.
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Complete Sentences
This is a great way to polish the writing skills of your third and fourth graders. Have them read through the 16 sentences to determine which are complete and which are incomplete. Looking to extend the activity? Consider asking your...
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Where the Red Fern Grows: Understanding Sentences
Using sentences from the book Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, this presentation explores the use of correct grammar. It starts out by giving examples of complete and incomplete sentences, and then moves on to nouns, verbs, and...
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Recognizing Complete Sentences
Paste the dresser drawers into the correct dresser in order to recognize complete sentences! The dressers are blank graphic organizers, and complete and incomplete sentences are written on drawers for learners to cut out. Pupils get a...
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A Straightfoward Literacy Strategy
Require class members to use complete sentences to improve literacy within your classroom, or perhaps, in the entire school.
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Fragments: Pretenders - Not Really Sentences
Give your class a concise overview of sentence fragments and how to repair them. This simple, not-too-long PowerPoint reinforces the idea that a correct sentence needs a subject and a verb and must be a complete thought.
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Sentences and Non-Sentences
Use the popular theme of sharks to discuss complete sentences and sentence fragments with your language arts class. This is a great, interactive exercise to get all of your learners involved. Consider pairing kids up in teams to create...
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Sentences
Work on sentence variety with this grammar worksheet. Middle schoolers decide if what they are reading are sentences, phrases, complete sentences, simple sentences, compound sentences, or complex sentences. They then complete eight...
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More Nursery Rhymes
Jack and Jill went up the... bell? As your budding readers and writers begin to recognize simple words and rhyme, use these incomplete sentences as practice. There are three lines from familiar nursery rhymes here, each missing the last...
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A Nursery Rhyme
As your budding readers and writers begin to recognize simple words and rhyme, use these incomplete sentences as practice. There are three lines from a familiar nursery rhyme here, each missing the last rhyming word. The missing word is...
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Complete Sentences
Being able to distinguish between a complete sentence and an incomplete sentence is an important skill, one set as a standard by the Common Core initiative. This presentation does a shows viewers what it takes to make a complete...
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Visible Speech: What is a Sentence?
Use this straightforward presentation as a basic guide to your grammar unit. With explanations of the parts of a simple sentence (subject, verb, direct object), the slideshow is a good way to reinforce students' prior knowledge about...
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Clauses and Sentences
Review sentence structure using this presentation. Learners identify complete and incomplete sentences. Then, they read a list of simple sentences and make them more complex. After this experience, learners could take a look at their own...
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Fragments
For this grammar worksheet, students read forty sentences and rewrite the ones that are fragments into complete sentences and place a c next to the ones that are correct as is.
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Fragments--Exercise 1
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite each fragment by adding or combining words or punctuation where needed. Students leave each complete sentence alone and leave the lines below each one blank.
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Sentence Fragments Worksheet 1
In this grammar worksheet, learners identify which sentences are fragments and then rewrite each fragment they find into a complete sentence below the fragment.
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Sentence Fragments Worksheet 2
In this grammar worksheet, students identify and correct each sentence fragment found within a paragraph. Students check to make sure each sentence is grammatically correct.