Help your students master sentence errors with this complete, ready-to-use resource! Designed for 5th and 6th grade reading and language arts, this bundle covers the three most common sentence errors: run-ons, fragments, and comma splices. Instead of watered-down examples, students get to work with authentic, on-level sentences they might actually encounter in real texts.

With a step-by-step mini-lesson, guided notes, rigorous practice, and engaging task cards that tie into food history, this resource makes grammar meaningful and effective.

What’s Included

• Mini-Lesson Slide Deck introducing run-ons, fragments, and comma splices
• Student Note Sheet to guide the lesson
• Practice Worksheet with authentic, rigorous examples
• 16 Task Cards with food history paragraphs containing built-in errors for students to identify and correct
• Recording Sheet for task card responses
• Reference Sheets (2 one-pagers):
  • Sentence Errors: what they are and how to fix them
  • Conjunctions (subordinating and coordinating) for student use when correcting sentences

✅ Ready to use — just print or project
✅ Examples feel real and relevant, not “babyish”
✅ Combines direct instruction, guided notes, independent practice, and application
✅ Works for whole-group lessons, small groups, stations, or centers
✅ Builds grammar knowledge and writing confidence

How to Use It

• Start with the mini-lesson + note sheet to introduce concepts
• Reinforce learning with the practice worksheet
• Apply knowledge with task cards in centers, stations, or partner practice
• Provide students with reference sheets for ongoing support during writing
  

Perfect For:

• Whole-class instruction
• Literacy centers or grammar stations
• Gallery Walks or Do Nows
• Intervention groups
• Independent practice or test prep