TEACHING SENTENCE STRUCTURE 1ST GRADE ACTIVITIES
Are you looking for engaging resources that you can use in your literacy lessons to teach kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade students how to write a sentence and develop fluency as writers? Then you’ll love this BUNDLE of sequenced activities that begin with a picture matching activity, then reading sentences, next cut and paste sentences and finally sentence building.
Your students will be engaged as they learn all about sentence structure in a sequential step-by-step manner! Use these resources in literacy centers, writing centers, writer’s workshops or guided writing groups. Besides learning sentence structure, children will be practising CVC words, blending and segmenting, digraphs, sight words and topic vocabulary.
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SENTENCE STRUCTURE 1ST GRADE LITERACY GAMES
1. Matching Picture to Sentence Activity: This is an ideal literacy center activity that students can play on their own, with a partner or small group. Cards are color coded and children will practice reading simple sentences, learn new vocabulary and then find the picture match. Another way to use this resource is ‘I Have Who Has.’ Student 1 reads the sentence card – eg. ‘Let’s build a snowman. Who has a picture of a snowman?’
This printable resource consists of the following:
- 50 picture cards with matching sentence cards
This resource covers the following literacy skills:
- simple sentences
- sight word recognition
- reading comprehension
- matching skillssentence structure
- capitalization and final punctuation
SENTENCE STRUCTURE 1ST GRADE TASK CARDS
2. I Can Read Simple Sentences are task card activities which are ideal to use in literacy centers, guided reading groups and reading intervention programs. Each consists of sight word sentences – simple sentences and accompanying visual supports for the young reader. These task cards are perfect for partner or small group work and can also be for extension – for example: have students extend the simple sentences into compound sentences. This resource consists of:
- 32 colored task cards
- 32 printer-friendly BW cards for students to trace, complete sentences and color pictures!
- Use in literacy centers or as independent work
- students use dry erase pens to circle sight word, find and underline focus word in sentences
- underline capital letters and final punctuation
Printer Friendly BW Task Cards include so students can:
- trace sight word
- read sight word
- read simple sentence
- write missing word in simple sentence
- capitalization
- final punctuation
- color picture
- cut and paste card into notebook)
TEACHING SENTENCE STRUCTURE 1ST GRADE WITH SENTENCE BUILDING WORKSHEETS
Sentence Building Worksheets with Pictures will be an absolute favorite among students1 They’re interactive and enable children to practice writing fun sentences using the available picture prompts. Sentence building worksheets are a great way to learn all about sentence structure and ideal to use writing lessons, writing centers, writers workshops, individually and whole class. This is the perfect literacy resources to model as part of your writing lessons when teaching important recount and narrative writing skills. This ready-to-go pack includes the following:
- Step-by-step Teacher Notes ‘How to Use This Resource’
- 18 Build-A-Sentence worksheets with picture prompts
- 18 noun cards (characters)
- 18 verb cards (actions)
- 18 noun cards (places)
The resource consists of a variety of cut and paste sentence building worksheets where students have pictures along the left hand side of the writing worksheet to help with ideas and vocabulary. You can never have enough of these sentence building worksheets that have ‘inbuilt supports’ to foster confident and fluent writers. These no prep worksheets that cover the following skills in each worksheet:
- building vocabulary
- sentence structure
- capitalization
- punctuation
- writing fluency
- sight word practice
- handwriting (letter formation)
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