Complete Sentences or Fragments?
Sort eight examples into complete sentences and unfinished thoughts, then rewrite the fragments with the missing information.
- Year groups
- Years 3–5 (Key Stage 2)
- Pages
- 1
- File type
- Subject
- Grammar, English
- Resource types
- Worksheets
- England expectations
- Official curriculum expectation · Composition
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About this resource
This worksheet will help your students learn how to turn their incomplete thoughts into complete sentences. This is a great skill for students to have, as it will help them communicate more effectively.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Distinguish a complete sentence from a fragment
- Identify what information a fragment lacks
- Revise an incomplete thought into a full sentence
Teaching tips
- Have learners locate the subject and predicate before classifying each item.
- Compare two different valid rewrites of one fragment to show that completion is not limited to one wording.
Skills covered
- Sentence completeness — independent thoughts are separated from fragments.
- Revision — missing information is added to incomplete language.
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National Curriculum in England
National Curriculum in England expectations
England expectations
England expectations
- Official curriculum expectation · Composition — make simple additions, revisions and corrections to their own writing by: rereading to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the continuous form
Core concepts
Core concepts
- Complete sentences
- Fragments
- Sentence revision
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