Weekly Quiz 1 — Words

Grade 1 · Lessons 1–4 · what a word is · about 5 minutes · given at the start of Lesson 5
Before you start: Read each item aloud twice. Low stakes — say so before you start. Do NOT go over the answers today; return it in Lesson 6.

Every sentence here is one the class has never seen — held out of all teaching, so this measures whether the idea transferred rather than what they remember. A wrong answer on a held-out item is real information; treat it that way.
  1. How many words?
    Cows moo.
    2
    Two short words.
  2. How many words?
    The kite flew high.
    4
    Four one-syllable words.
  3. How many words?
    I ate.
    2
    I is a whole word by itself.
    If they sayone too few — they did not count ISay“Can I say it on its own? Then it is a word, even a tiny one.”
  4. How many words?
    My cousin is tall.
    4
    Cousin is long — still one word.
  5. Circle each word, then write how many.
    A fox ran fast.
    4
    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.”
As-Suffah Academy · Language Arts Weekly Quiz 1 — Words · TEACHER EDITION