Grade 1 · Lesson 9 — Which question am I asking?

U0 · Square One · What a word is + What a sentence is · student sheet is G1_L09_Worksheet.html
Read the question above each one FIRST. Then answer.

How we did it together — keep looking at this

Same sentence. Two different questions.The lamp fell.The lamp fell.1How many words?→ 32Whole thought or a piece?→ WNothing changed but the question. So I read the question first.
Before you mark: Watch for children answering the previous question out of habit — that is the exact error this day exists to surface.
  1. How many words?
    The camel is big.
    4
    Straightforward — the answer is the whole story.
  2. Whole thought (W) or only a piece (P)?
    Behind the blue door.
    P
    It tells us where, and never who or what does anything.
    If they sayW — usually because it has a capital and a periodSay“The marks are there. But who is it about? What do they do?”
  3. How many words?
    My sister is happy.
    4
    Straightforward — the answer is the whole story.
  4. Whole thought (W) or only a piece (P)?
    Our team won today.
    W
    Straightforward — the answer is the whole story.
  5. Whole thought (W) or only a piece (P)?
    My aunt and.
    P
    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. How many words?
    A bird sang.
    3
    A is a whole word by itself.
    If they sayone too few — they did not count ASay“Can I say it on its own? Then it is a word, even a tiny one.”
Secure looks like: Answers the right question for each item without prompting, and self-corrects when they realize they answered the previous question out of habit.
As-Suffah Academy · Language Arts Lesson 9 · TEACHER EDITION