Summary
Do your sentences have all their clauses in order? Are both the subject and predicate where they should be? If you’re not sure, check out this BrainPOP movie on sentence fragments, and let Tim and Moby set your writing straight. You’ll learn about the easiest types of sentence fragments to identify and a couple of quick ways to fix them. You’ll also learn to tell the difference between dependent clauses and independent clauses, and how to determine which is which. Finally, you’ll find out about subordinating conjunctions and how they’re used. So don’t turn in another badly-written paper--click on this movie first, and clean up your sentences!
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
A few questions to talk through after watching Sentence Fragments:
- What is one new thing you learned about sentence fragments?
- Can you explain it to a partner in your own words?
- Where might you see this in the real world?
- What is one question you still have?
Quick work-a-long
Try it:
- Write one sentence explaining sentence fragments.
- Draw or give one example of your own.