4th grade Complete Sentences vs. Fragments Resources

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.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Conjunctions: FAN BOYS and You

Lesson plan

Conjunctions: FAN BOYS and You

Improve your students' sentence variation with this lesson that teaches them how to use conjunctions to improve the flow of their writing.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Fragment or Sentence?

Lesson plan

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.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Rein in the Run-Ons

Lesson plan

Rein in the Run-Ons

Are your students having trouble taming run-on sentences into a more manageable length? In this lesson, your students will learn to not only recognize a run-on sentence, but also how to stop it in its tracks.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Mixed Review Writing Assessment

Worksheet

Mixed Review Writing Assessment

In this mid-year assessment, students will apply their writing knowledge to a broad set of problems.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Editor in Chief

Workbook

Editor in Chief

Things are jumbled up at the newspaper! Your child has the know-how with the help of this workbook to set things right. Review grammar rules and practice composition through reading passages.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Workbook

Sentence Parts and Making Predictions

Lesson plan

Sentence Parts and Making Predictions

In this lesson, students will practice identifying the subject and predicate of a sentence and making predictions with textual evidence as they read short fictional texts. Use it as a stand alone lesson or as a precursor to What's Next?

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

What Are the Two Main Parts of a Sentence?

Worksheet

What Are the Two Main Parts of a Sentence?

What are the two main parts of a sentence? This worksheet focuses on the strategy of identifying complete sentences.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Complete Sentences vs. Fragments 2

Exercise

Complete Sentences vs. Fragments 2

Have your fourth grader test their knowledge of subjects and predicates with these exercises that ask them to identify whether a sentence is a fragment, and what is missing.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Exercise

Sentences 3

Guided Lesson

Sentences 3

Sentences are the building blocks of paragraphs. A sentence is a complete thought that can stand alone and in this unit students will learn what comprises a complete sentence and how to identify a fragment, or incomplete sentence. They will explore different kinds of sentences and how to punctuate them. And, to sharpen their craft, students will learn how to spice up their own writing by adding sentence pattern variety.

4th grade

Guided Lesson

Mixed Word Study Review Part 1

Worksheet

Mixed Word Study Review Part 1

In this end-of-year assessment, students apply their language arts knowledge to grammar problems.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Glossary: Sentence Parts and Making Predictions

Worksheet

Glossary: Sentence Parts and Making Predictions