Study guide · Quiz 1 — Words
Grade 1 grammar · quiz is on Lesson 5 ·
this went home after Lesson 4
For the parent. This week your child has been learning what a word is. It sounds simple, but it is the foundation everything else in grammar sits on — and the part children most often have a wobble with. There is a short quiz tomorrow. It is low stakes and not graded; it is so the teacher can see who needs a little more help.
For you. Tomorrow there is a small quiz about words. Here is everything on it.
Word
What your child has been taught to say:
A word is one thing we say. When we write it, it has a space on each side.
The question they ask themselves:
“Can I say it on its own?”
The cat sat. → 3
Touch each word: The … cat … sat. Three hops, three words.
The elephant is heavy. → 4
elephant is long — el-e-phant — but it is still one word, and gets one hop. This is the one children find hardest.
Watch for this: If your child counts Bis-mil-lah as three words, they are counting the sounds instead of the words. Ask them: “Can you say it on its own?” If yes — it is one word.
Try these together
These are new sentences — your child has not seen them. Five minutes is plenty.
Ducks quack.
My grandfather is here.
I ran.
The rabbit is fast.
Answers — for the grown-up helping
If it is hard: Say a short sentence and hop your finger once for each word while your child watches. Then do it together. Two minutes is plenty — this does not need to be a long session. If it is still hard tomorrow, please tell the teacher; there is a practice sheet for exactly this.