SENTENCE FRAGMENTS Language Arts Writing Today is Monday

SENTENCE FRAGMENTS Language Arts: Writing

Today is Monday, September 17, 2018 It is a Day 1 v. Please copy homework in your agenda: v. Study for Thursday’s Sentences Quiz v. Today, you will need: v. Writing folder

I can… …identify and edit sentence fragments.

Connection Turn and Talk: Look at these sentence fragments and discuss what is missing in each of them. How can they be edited so that they become complete sentences? 1. The super slide! 2. Couldn’t believe it was happening again. 3. Whenever we switched activities. 4. Before lunch began.

Teaching sentence fragment: subject: predicate: An incomplete sentence—missing a subject, predicate or both. Who or what the sentence is about Tells you what the subject is or is doing (verb)

Teaching dependent clause: A group of words with a subject and predicate; doesn’t form a complete thought independent clause: A group of words with a subject and predicate; forms a complete thought A clause starting with a subordinating conjunction subordinate clause: before, after, while, when, if, though, because, since

Link ØGrammar Book Page 69 #1 -10 ØWrite answers on the back of the notes paper. ØUse these directions: ØIf the sentence is complete, write sentence. ØIf the sentence is incomplete, write fragment. ØRewrite the fragment so it is a complete

Review Answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Sentence Fragment Sentence Fragment