Curated OER
Semicolons
Sixth graders write a paragraph using semicolons. In this semicolons lesson plan, 6th graders brainstorm examples of semicolon use as a class and then write their own paragraph.
Curated OER
Fun With Formatting
Students investigate the concept of using a word processing program with the intention of improving formatting skills like centering text. They also highlight different text sections and demonstrate how to save changes made to a document...
Curated OER
How Worldly Are You?
Sixth graders locate and map six components to have a working knowledge of maps. In this map skills lesson, 6th graders define the six map components and work in groups to draw a map using the components. Students read a related story...
Curated OER
Science Careers Want Ads
Sixth graders examine the important items that need to be included in a want ad. They create a want ad for a career in science.
Curated OER
Proofreading Practice
Students investigate proofreading marks. In this proofreading lesson, students evaluate a paragraph for editing mistakes. Students correct mistakes and return to the teacher.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Editing for Sentence Structure
This lesson will give students tools and tips to edit sentence structure so that fragments and run-on sentences will not hamper their writing.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: The Crucible: Fragments and Run on Sentences
This lesson focuses on fragments and run-on sentences including explaining dependent and independent clauses, fragments, run-ons, comma splices, and coordinating conjunctions. It provides examples and links to quizzes.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Lit and Composition:types of Writing: Sentence Errors
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sentence Fragments
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]
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Fragments
This tutorial provides information about the sentence fragment. Several examples are provided to support the explanations. A PowerPoint is available on the site for additional tutorial information regarding sentence fragments and other...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Editing Techniques: Checking Your Sentence Structure
A ten-slide presentation demonstrating how to edit writing for sentence variety and how to identify and correct sentence errors such as fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Fragments and Run Ons
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.
University of North Carolina
Univ. Of North Carolina: Seeing and Correcting Sentence Fragments and Run Ons
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Sentence Length and Style
This slideshow lesson focuses on sentence length and style; it lists four types of sentences: fragments, short sentences, long sentences, and run-ons. It explains the effect that is achieved by using each of these sentence types for...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Grammar: Sentence Structure
This lesson plan 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.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Identifying Incorrect Sentences
This learning module focuses on how to identify run-on sentences, comma splices, and sentence fragments.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Recognizing Run Ons and Comma Splices
A seven-question quiz in which students choose the sentence with no errors.
TES Global
Blendspace: Run on Sentences
A nine-part learning module including links to texts and images on run-on sentences and sentence fragments.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Elements of Sentence Construction
This entry focuses on the Elements of Sentence Construction including subjects and predicates, phrases and clauses, compound sentence elements, and avoiding fragments, run-ons, and fused sentences.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Sentence Fragments: Lesson 1
This lessons introduces sentence fragments. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Sentence Fragments."
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Presentations: Fragments, Comma Splices, and Fused Sentences
A PowerPoint slide explaining common sentence errors and how to correct them. Questions that may be found on standardized tests are included.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences
Learn to avoid fragments and run-on sentences while correctly combining clauses to create an effective variety of sentences, including complex, compound, and compound-complex.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with identifying sentence fragments and then fixing them.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature and Composition: Types of Writing: Review
This lesson is a review of the unit on types of writing including purpose, audience, tone, the writing process, the four types of writing, and sentence fragments and run-ons. A quiz is provided.