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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Editing for Sentence Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will give students tools and tips to edit sentence structure so that fragments and run-on sentences will not hamper their writing.
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Activity
SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Writer's Complex: Grammar Interactive Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has an index to interactive exercises testing knowledge of various types of grammar. Some categories offer basic and advanced exercises. Answers are explained.
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Activity
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Sentence Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource for correcting potential sentence fragments. Complete with charts, examples, and exercises.
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Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 2: Finding Fragments in Short Passages

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Practice sentence skills by choosing the sentence fragment in each of 20 passage.
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Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 3: Finding Fragments in a Long Passage

For Students 5th - 8th
Practice sentence skills by looking at each sentence in a passage and deciding if it is a complete sentence or a fragment.
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Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 4: Identifying the Different Types of Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice sentence skills by identifying the type of fragment in each short passage: subordinate clause, participle phrase, infinitive phrase, afterthought, lonely verb, or appositive.
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Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 5: Fixing Fragments

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Practice sentence skills by choosing the correction that will turn in each fragment into a complete sentence.
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Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 6: Fixing Fragments

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Practice sentence skills by choosing the correction that will turn in each fragment into a complete sentence.
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Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 7: Fixing Fragments

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Practice sentence skills by choosing the correction that will turn in each fragment into a complete sentence.
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Handout
Other

Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Grammar Guidelines

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Get a collection of self-help handouts on different parts of speech and common usage topics.
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Unit Plan
University of Sydney (Australia)

The Write Site: What Are Sentence Fragments?

For Students 9th - 10th
This learning module provides a clear explanation of sentence fragments. Hints for finding sentence fragments are provided, along with explanations about how to fix them.
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Activity
University of Sydney (Australia)

The Write Site: Practice 1: Sentence Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th
During this interactive lesson, students will determine the number of finite verbs in each sentence or fragment.
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eBook
Quia

Quia: Map Skills

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students will be challenged when they take this interactive grammar quiz? This quiz asks students to identify whether or not the sentence is grammatically correct. Come and check it out.
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PPT
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Presentations: Fragments, Comma Splices, and Fused Sentences

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A PowerPoint slide explaining common sentence errors and how to correct them. Questions that may be found on standardized tests are included.
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Handout
TES Global

Tes: Sentences: Simple, Compound and Complex

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This downloadable reference provides notes and examples of different types of sentences. Simple sentences, compound sentences, and complex sentences are discussed on the resource pages.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Grammar: Sentence Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Readability: Sentence Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson 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.
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Unit Plan
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Identifying Incorrect Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module focuses on how to identify run-on sentences, comma splices, and sentence fragments.
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Unit Plan
University of Sydney (Australia)

The University of Sydney: The Write Site: Unit 1: Sentence Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Handout
University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin Madison: Writing Center: Editing Checklist

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This twelve-item checklist is linked to short explanations that include an example of the error, followed by revisions. W.9-10.5 Writing Process
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sentence Fragments

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
Sentence fragments can't stand alone, because they do not express a complete thought. Run-ons put two complete sentences together in one sentence without separating them. [0:35]
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Quia

Quia: Sentence or Fragment? Game #1

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Can you recognize a complete sentence from a fragment? Using the hint provided, take this quiz and see if you know the difference!
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Sentence Intro

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will be able to distinguish between sentences and fragments. They will also be looking at subjects and predicates.
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Unit Plan
Education Development Center

Tune in to Learning: Editing Checklist

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An editing/proofreading checklist is often helpful when you read your own work, or someone else's. This site helps you edit for capitalization, sentence fragments, verb tense, and punctuation. Included is a brief video about sentence...