English Lesson Plan: Correcting Run Ons and Fragments

Lesson Objective: Students will able to identify and correct run ons and fragments.

Lesson Opening

1. I will ask for a quick summary of the rising action, climax, and falling action
2. As we talk, I will hand out my cards with words and numbers on them.

Guided Practice

1. Next I will bring them to the floor. For about ten minutes they will stand above me and provide me with cards. This is an interactive lesson and hopefully will avoid some of the problems with yesterday's static lesson.

1. Each child will have a card that belongs in a specific place. When I call the number of their card, they will place it where it ought to go. Together, we will build sentences and learn about punctuation.

Independent Practice

1. The children will go back to their desks and work independently on the sheets that I will hand out.

1. If there is time, they will work in pairs, writing run on sentences for each other and then fixing them.

Closing

1. We will talk about all the different uses for the period.