Virginia SOL 6.LU.2.A
The Standard
Construct complete sentences with appropriate punctuation, avoiding comma splices and run-ons in writing.
Virginia Standards of Learning for English · Mechanics
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify complete thoughts and incomplete fragments. They join or separate ideas using punctuation and conjunctions without creating comma splices or run-ons.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students consistently include a subject and a complete predicate. They separate independent clauses with a period, semicolon, or comma and coordinating conjunction.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may join two complete thoughts with only a comma. They may also mistake a long sentence for a run-on or treat a fragment as complete because it has punctuation.
How to Assess It
- Give students three flawed sentences. Ask them to label each fragment, comma splice, or run-on, then revise each one correctly.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs clause strips and punctuation cards, then have them build and explain three correct sentence combinations.
Ask students to compare two revisions of a run-on and explain which punctuation choice makes the meaning clearer.
Play Sentence Boundary Sort by having teams classify cards as complete, fragment, comma splice, or run-on, then correct the errors.
Have students edit a mock text message, school announcement, or online review by fixing unclear sentence boundaries.
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