6.10.D.i
The Standard
complete complex 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 edit complex sentences so every clause is complete and connected correctly. They check subject-verb agreement and fix fragments, comma splices, and run-on sentences.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students write complete complex sentences with correctly joined clauses. They match each verb to its subject and repair fragments, comma splices, and run-on sentences without changing the intended meaning.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think any long sentence is a run-on or that adding a comma fixes one. They may miss agreement errors when words separate the subject and verb, or mistake dependent clauses for complete sentences.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Edit this passage and explain each change: “Although the players practices daily. The team wants to improve, they meet after school everyone work hard.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs clause strips and punctuation cards, then have them build and revise complete complex sentences with correct subject-verb agreement.
Ask students to explain why “Because the storm ended” is incomplete, then write two different complete sentences using that clause.
Play error-sort relay with sentence cards labeled fragment, run-on, comma splice, agreement error, or correct, then require a revision.
Have students edit a mock school announcement containing sentence errors before reading the corrected version aloud as a morning announcement.
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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
complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;
- 8.10.D.i
The 8th Grade version of this standard.
- 5.11.D.i
complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;
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