5.11.D.i
The Standard
complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading · The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students build and edit sentences so each one expresses a complete thought. They connect related thoughts correctly and make each verb match its subject.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students write simple and compound sentences with clear subjects and predicates. They match subjects with verbs and revise fragments, run-ons, and comma splices correctly.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may mistake a long sentence for a run-on or assume every short group of words is complete. They may join two complete thoughts with only a comma. They also may choose a verb that agrees with the nearest noun instead of the subject.
How to Assess It
- Give students four sentences containing a fragment, a run-on, a comma splice, and a subject-verb agreement error. Ask them to label and correct each one.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs sentence strips to sort into complete sentences, fragments, run-ons, and comma splices, then have them repair each incorrect strip.
Ask students to explain which revision best fixes a comma splice and support their choice with a sentence rule.
Play Sentence Repair Relay, where teams correct one error card at a time and explain the change before earning a point.
Have students edit a sample school announcement for sentence boundaries and subject-verb agreement before posting it on a class bulletin board.
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Related Standards
- 7.10.D.i
complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments
- 4.11.D.i
The 4th Grade version of this standard.
- 6.10.D.i
complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;
- 8.10.D.i
complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;
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