Grade 1 · Lesson 8 — Whole thought, or only a piece?

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Whole thought, or only a piece? Write W or P. Then for TWO of them, write how you knew.

How we did it together — keep looking at this

Under the tall tree.1big letter? ✓ period? ✓so it must be a sentence…2am I still waiting? → YESwho is under the tree? what do they do?3only a piecethe marks tricked me — step ① was not the testStep ① stays on the board ON PURPOSE. It is the step that fools you.
Before you mark: Every item wears a capital and a period. The 'how you knew' box is the one to read tonight — it separates children using the question from children guessing by length.
  1. The old man walked slowly.
    W or P?
    whole thought
    Straightforward — the answer is the whole story.
  2. The cold gray sea.
    W or P?
    only a piece
    It tells us who or what — and never what they do.
    If they sayW — it names something real, so it feels finishedSay“It tells me who. What do they do?” — hold your right hand out empty and wait.
  3. My friend lost his book.
    W or P?
    whole thought
    Straightforward — the answer is the whole story.
  4. Before the sun rose.
    W or P?
    only a piece
    It sounds grown-up and finished, but it is an answer waiting for a question. The hardest kind on the sheet.
    If they sayW — the sentence rhythm sounds completeSay“Am I still waiting for more? … Before the sun rose, and then what?”
  5. Jumped over the wall.
    W or P?
    only a piece
    It tells us who or what — and never what they do.
    If they sayW — it names something real, so it feels finishedSay“It tells me who. What do they do?” — hold your right hand out empty and wait.
  6. The baker made bread.
    W or P?
    whole thought
    Straightforward — the answer is the whole story.

How did you know?

Number ____ — I knew because…
Number ____ — I knew because…
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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