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Grade 1

• Language

  • 1.L.1.a
  • 1.L.1.b
  • 1.L.1.c
  • 1.L.1.d
  • 1.L.1.e
  • 1.L.1.g
  • 1.L.1.j
  • 1.L.1
  • 1.L.2.b
  • 1.L.2.d
  • 1.L.2.e
  • 1.L.2
  • 1.L.4.b
  • 1.L.4.c
  • 1.L.4
  • 1.L.5
  • 1.L.5.a
  • 1.L.5.b
  • 1.L.5.c
  • 1.L.5.d
  • 1.L.6

• Reading: Fluency

  • 1.RF.1
  • 1.RF.2.b
  • 1.RF.2.c
  • 1.RF.2
  • 1.RF.3.b
  • 1.RF.3.c
  • 1.RF.3.e
  • 1.RF.3.f
  • 1.RF.3.g
  • 1.RF.3
  • 1.RF.4.a

• Reading: Informational

  • 1.RI.1
  • 1.RI.2
  • 1.RI.3
  • 1.RI.5
  • 1.RI.7
  • 1.RI.9
  • 1.RI.10

• Reading: Literature

  • 1.RL.1
  • 1.RL.2
  • 1.RL.3
  • 1.RL.4
  • 1.RL.6
  • 1.RL.7
  • 1.RL.9
  • 1.RL.10

• Speaking & Listening

  • 1.SL.1
  • 1.SL.1.a
  • 1.SL.1.c
  • 1.SL.2
  • 1.SL.4
  • 1.SL.5

• Writing

  • 1.W.1
  • 1.W.2
  • 1.W.3
  • 1.W.4
  • 1.W.5
  • 1.W.6
  • 1.W.7
  • 1.W.8

CCSS ELA Standard: 1.L.1.j

produce and expand complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts

Writing Compound Sentences

Students work with subjects, predicates, and conjunctions to write compound sentences.

Gr 1-7

Holiday Emoji Story 🍪

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 1-8

Changing Coordinating Conjunctions

What happens when we switch out a “but” with a “so”? An “and” with a “for”? How can such tiny words make such big differences?

Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Fixing Shakespearean Run-Ons

Can your students help The Bard? We’ll fix five Shakespearean run-ons in three different ways.

Gr 1-8

Writing Technique: 3 Dependent Clauses

A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We’ll be writing sentences with three dependent clauses.

Gr 1-7

Punctuation Power

In a sentence, punctuation may seem meek when compared to those mighty words, but punctuation has incredible power over the meaning of a sentence. Students will try re-punctuating sentences to find new meanings – without changing a single word!

Gr 1-8

What’s In My Brain: Painting vs Painting

Two columns of sentences. Something is different about them. Can you figure out the rule?

Gr 1, 2, 3, 7

Upgrade Research Questions With Depth and Complexity

Ever ask students to create research questions? Were their ideas a bit… blah? My own students had a very hard time writing questions they didn’t already know the answer to! This video is how I solved that problem: upgrade research questions with depth and complexity.

Gr 1-8

What’s In My Brain – Independent vs Dependent

These clauses are sorted into two groups. What’s the rule? No definitions given — just examples.

Gr 1-7

Simple or Compound Sentences – What’s In My Brain?

Can your students spot simple sentences vs compound sentences?

Gr 1-7

Run On or Not? – What’s In My Brain

Can your students spot the run-on sentences?

Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Complex or Compound – What’s In My Brain

Can your class spot the complex sentences vs compound sentences?

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 7

What’s In My Brain – The Park vs The Museum

We’re looking at the past progressive tense and the simple past tense.

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6

Passive to Active Voice

In this lesson, students will not just fix passive sentences, but break active sentences as they learn to put the star of the sentence first.

Gr 1-8

Ways to Start a Sentence – Part 3

Your students’ sentences all start the same way. Here are three techniques that fix that overnight.

Gr 1-8

Ways to Start a Sentence – Level 1

‘Add more variety!’ teachers say. But how? This lesson gives students actual techniques instead of vague advice.

Gr 1-6