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📖 1st Grade · ELAL.1.1jUnit 8: Sentences & grammar

Complete sentences

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🎯 Objective: Students write sentences with a naming part and a telling part.

Lesson outline

  1. Sort strips: complete sentence vs fragment (“The big dog.”).
  2. Add a telling part to fix fragments.
  3. Write three sentences about a picture.
  4. Exit: one complete sentence.

Lesson 1 of 6 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

L.1.1j

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 1 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Write complete sentences with capitals and end punctuation
  • Use nouns, verbs, adjectives and conjunctions

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Writing sentences📚 All 1st Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Sentences & grammar”

  1. Complete sentences
  2. Nouns
  3. Verbs and tense
  4. Adjectives
  5. Joining words: and, but, or, so
  6. Punctuation

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