Fragment or Sentence?

This lesson includes a bunch of hands-on activities to get little writers excited about complete sentences. After learning about subjects and predicates, students will tackle the challenge of writing their own sentences and fragments.

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Learning Objectives

Students will be able to distinguish between complete sentences and sentence fragments.

Introduction

(15 minutes)

Begin the lesson by strengthening all students' ability to identify a subject and a predicate through review.
Display your anchor chart.
Discuss the definitions of subject and predicate.
Ask student volunteers to help you create a list of five simple *subjects.
Write this list on the board.
Ask student volunteers to help you create a list of five predicates.
Write your list of predicates directly next to your list of subjects
Once the list is complete, call on students to come up to the list and draw a line from one of the subjects to a predicate to create a sentence.
Reinforce the rule that a complete sentence must have a subject and a predicate.

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Fragment or Sentence?

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