A deeper understanding of what constitutes a complete sentence will help your young writers understand how to create technically correct and more complex sentences. This practice will help students edit and revise their writing.
Students will be able to identify complete sentences and fragments.
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Review that, in order to be a complete sentence, a sentence needs a subject and a predicate. If a sentence doesn’t have both, it’s a fragment.
A complete thought (or complete sentence) has a subject and a predicate. That means you can identify a “who/what” and a “what about it.”
Project the example on the top of the worksheet Building Sentences and model finding the subject and predicate.
Separate the subject notecards into one pile and the predicate and dependent clause notecards into another pile. Shuffle the second pile so that the clauses and predicates are mixed up.