A complete sentence has two parts: who or what the sentence is about, and what happened. A fragment has only one of them. The group of words The tiny kitten tells who but never says what happened, and slept on the soft pillow tells what happened but never says who. Second graders often write fragments because they know what they mean, and the reader has to guess the rest. This worksheet gives six fragments and a word bank of phrases that finish them.
The child chooses the phrase that fits, then writes the whole sentence on the lines, beginning with a capital letter and ending with a period. Some fragments are missing the action and some are missing the person or thing, and the word bank has one phrase that is not needed. Ask your child to read the sentence aloud to check that it sounds finished.
What your child will learn
Tell a fragment from a complete sentence
Add the missing who or what happened
Begin a sentence with a capital letter and end it with an end mark
Common Core standard: L.2.1.F
Worked example
The fragment is The tiny kitten. It tells who but not what happened. Add the phrase slept on the soft pillow and write: The tiny kitten slept on the soft pillow.
Common mistake
Copying the fragment and adding a phrase that does not fit, or forgetting the capital letter and the period.
Helpful hint
Does it say who or what? Does it say what happened? A sentence needs both.
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