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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!

Writing Compound Sentences

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

Holiday Emoji Story 🚚

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

Pluto – Mixed Up Paragraph

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

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!

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!

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!

Super Specific Similes: Loud Class

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

Writing in Pilish

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

Fancier Figurative Language: Move the Simile

What if we started a sentence with the simile?

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?

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!

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!)

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.

12 Phrases: The Zoo

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

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!

What’s In My Brain: Painting vs Painting

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

What’s In My Brain – Independent vs Dependent

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

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

Can your students spot simple sentences vs compound sentences?

Run On or Not? – What’s In My Brain

Can your students spot the run-on sentences?

Complex or Compound – What’s In My Brain

Can your class spot the complex sentences vs compound sentences?

Pronouns With Too Many Antecedents

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

Ways to Start a Sentence – Part 3

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

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.

Ways to Start a Sentence – Level 1

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