Grade 1 · English Language Arts · 2 minutes
Let's build a sentence!
Who + what they do. Capital letter. End mark.
Key terms
- Sentence
- A group of words that tells a complete idea.
- Naming part
- The part of a sentence that tells who or what it is about.
- Telling part
- The part of a sentence that tells what the naming part does.
- Capital letter
- The big letter that starts a sentence.
- End mark
- A period, question mark or exclamation mark that ends a sentence.
Transcript
Hi, word builders! Words are like toy blocks. Put them together, and you build a sentence!
A sentence tells a complete idea. Listen. The frog jumps. Yes! That makes sense.
A sentence has two parts. The naming part tells who. The frog! The telling part tells what they do. Jumps!
Now add a capital letter at the start, like a hat! And a period at the end, like a stop sign.
Asking something? End with a question mark. Can the frog swim? Excited? End with an exclamation mark! The frog jumps so high!
Uh oh! Jumps frog the. Silly! The words are mixed up. Let's fix it. The frog jumps. Much better!
Now look. The dog. The dog what? It needs a telling part! The dog runs. Now it's a complete sentence!
So remember! A sentence tells a complete idea. It has a naming part and a telling part. Start with a capital letter. End with an end mark. Now you build one!
Sources
Every fact in the video, and where it comes from.
- 1shmoop.com/common-core-standards/ccss-ela-literacy-l-1-1-…
- Grade 1 students produce and expand complete simple sentences (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory) (CCSS L.1.1j).
- 2superteacherworksheets.com/common-core/l.1.2b.html
- Grade 1 students use end punctuation for sentences: statements take a period, questions a question mark (CCSS L.1.2b).
- 3readinguniverse.org/skill-explainer/text-composition/writing-a-sim…
- A sentence expresses a complete thought and has a naming part (who or what it is about) and a telling/action part (what they do); first grade uses these child-friendly terms for subject and predicate.
- 4education.com/worksheet/article/beginning-grammar-parts-sent…
- First-grade sentence lessons pair a naming part and an action part, e.g. matching subjects to predicates to build complete sentences.
- 5simplesolutions.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ENG-1-2ND-Topic-Gui…
- Sentences begin with a capital letter (first-word capitalization is taught in Grade 1 sentence work).
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