Grade 1 · Lesson 5 — A whole thought

U0 · Square One · What a sentence is · student sheet is G1_L05_Worksheet.html
Listen. Check the smile if it is a whole thought. Check the question mark if you are still waiting.

How we did it together — keep looking at this

1“My mom cooks.”→ am I still waiting? NOwhole thought2“Ran very fast.”→ am I still waiting? YESonly a pieceThe question is the same both times. Only my answer changed.
Before you mark: LISTENING TASK. Read each one twice in a flat, finished tone — if your voice trails off on the fragments you have given away the answer. The items are not printed on the sheet, on purpose.
  1. Read aloud — twice, flat tone
    The kettle boiled.
    whole thought
    Straightforward — the answer is the whole story.
  2. Read aloud — twice, flat tone
    Near the old gate.
    only a piece
    It tells us where, and never who or what does anything.
    If they saythumb up — it has the rhythm of a finished sentenceSay“It told me where. But who is it about? What do they do?”
  3. Read aloud — twice, flat tone
    My uncle laughed.
    whole thought
    Straightforward — the answer is the whole story.
  4. Read aloud — twice, flat tone
    The cold gray.
    only a piece
    It tells us who or what — and never what they do.
    If they saythumb up — it names something real, so it feels finishedSay“It tells me who. What do they do?” — hold your right hand out empty and wait.
  5. Read aloud — twice, flat tone
    Leaves fall.
    whole thought
    Straightforward — the answer is the whole story.
Secure looks like: Sorts six mixed items — including at least one correctly-punctuated fragment — with no more than one error, and can justify at least four of them using the spot test (“am I still waiting for more?”) rather than by pointing at the punctuation.
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