Editing Student Writing: Correcting Fragments and Run-Ons On the lines provided below, identify each numbered group of words as a sentence (S), fragment (F), or run-on (R). Then rewrite the paragraph, correcting any fragments and run-ons.
1. Many parents worry that their children are not reading enough others worry about what the children are reading.
2. In fact, most children are not reading anything at all, houses are filled with the sounds from computer speakers, television shows, and video games.
3. If children never see their parents reading or going to the library.
4. They will most likely not develop good reading habits.
5. Children who see their parents reading magazines, books, and newspapers.
6. These children will grow up thinking that reading is a natural part of daily life.
7. Parents can do many things to encourage reading.
8. Like accompanying them to the library and helping them pick out books.
9. Parents can encourage children to memorize poetry and they can show them how to read maps when they travel.
10. Since most young people like children's magazines with pictures and short texts on current topics.
11. Parents could subscribe to these magazines for their children.
12. Reading stories out loud as a family, with everybody participating.
13. That is the best idea of all.
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