English teachers around the world cringe when they come across fragments and run-ons in papers. A handout on these poor imitations of sentences helps bring relief by reviewing the basics of sentence construction and by offering strategies to identify and fix them. A wealth of examples help clarify ways to avoid these common pitfalls in writing.

Concepts

complete sentences, constructing sentences, sentence fragments, run-on sentences

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Pull out examples from pieces written in class and work in pairs to correct them
• Purposely write a paper using fragments and run-ons and see if scholars catch them

Classroom Considerations

• Assumes learners recognize a subject and predicate

Pros

• Fully explains each negative example to help point out the problem
• Lists specific solutions to fix the different ways these errors occur in a paper

Cons

• Could use more bold text or headers to make it easier to scan for specific pieces of advice

Common Core

W.9-10.5 W.11-12.5 L.9-10.3.a L.11-12.1.a L.11-12.3.a