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Grade 1

• Communication & Collaboration

  • 1.CC
  • 1.CC.1
  • 1.CC.2
  • 1.CC.3
  • 1.CC.4
  • 1.CC.5
  • 1.CC.6
  • 1.CC.7

• Reading: Comprehension

  • 1.RC
  • 1.RC.1
  • 1.RC.2
  • 1.RC.3
  • 1.RC.4
  • 1.RC.5
  • 1.RC.6
  • 1.RC.7
  • 1.RC.8
  • 1.RC.9
  • 1.RC.10

• Reading: Foundations

  • 1.RF
  • 1.RF.1
  • 1.RF.2
  • 1.RF.3
  • 1.RF.4
  • 1.RF.5
  • 1.RF.6
  • 1.RF.7

• Writing

  • 1.W
  • 1.W.1
  • 1.W.2
  • 1.W.3
  • 1.W.4
  • 1.W.5
  • 1.W.5.a
  • 1.W.5.b
  • 1.W.5.c
  • 1.W.6
  • 1.W.6.a
  • 1.W.6.b
  • 1.W.6.c
  • 1.W.7
  • 1.W.7.a
  • 1.W.7.b
  • 1.W.7.c
  • 1.W.8
  • 1.W.8.b
  • 1.W.8.b.I
  • 1.W.8.c
  • 1.W.8.c.I
  • 1.W.8.c.II
  • 1.W.8.c.III

Indiana ELA Standard: 1.W.7.c

Usage – Using complete simple declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts.

Halloween Worksheets

Crosswords, image analysis, and writing prompts for Halloween!

Gr 1-8

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 2-8

Pluto – Mixed Up Paragraph

Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about Pluto back into the correct order?

Gr 1-8

Parts of Speech Party – Care

How many different ways can we use the word “care”? Let’s find out in this Parts of Speech Party!

Gr 1-8

Parts of Speech Party – Fruit

How many different ways can we use the word “fruit”? Let’s find out in this Parts of Speech Party!

Gr 1-8

Parts of Speech Party – Change

How many different ways can we use the word “change”? Let’s find out in this Parts of Speech Party!

Gr 2-8

Super Specific Similes: Loud Class

Let’s make this simile about a loud class super specific!

Gr 1-8

Writing in Pilish

Pi can go beyond circles! What if you wrote using the digits of pi as your guide?

Gr 1-8

Fancier Figurative Language: Move the Simile

What if we started a sentence with the simile?

Gr 3-8

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

Writing Technique: Triple Anadiplosis!

Have students mastered the art of anadiplosis: ending one sentence with the beginning of the next? Now it’s time to take it to the next level!

Gr 1-8

Doubling Up Writing: Anadiplosis

Repeating words can be what you want, if what you want is an interesting effect. (Psst, that’s an example of anadiplosis!)

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 1-8

12 Phrases: The Zoo

Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place at the zoo.

Gr 1-8

Ambiguous Sentences

Rather than just demand that students “write clearly,” we’ll explore the hazards of poorly written sentences… and maybe create one of our own!

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, 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, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7

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

Can your students spot simple sentences vs compound sentences?

Gr 1, 2, 3, 5, 7

Run On or Not? – What’s In My Brain

Can your students spot the run-on sentences?

Gr 1-8

Complex or Compound – What’s In My Brain

Can your class spot the complex sentences vs compound sentences?

Gr 1-7

Pronouns With Too Many Antecedents

What happens when a pronoun could refer to more than one noun? Big problems!

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 2

We’ll show students how to add more variety to their writing by starting sentences with a reason, a prepositional phrase, and a simile.

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