Teaching page · Grade 1 · Lesson 21

Key nouns — meet the words

A dictated sentence is held in the head, then written with its capital and period.

The words

place
where
time
when
change
when it turns

Watch how it is built

1place means about the same as where.
A desert is a dry place.
2time means about the same as when.
Spring is the time plants grow.
3change means about the same as when it turns.
We saw a change in the sky.

Two ways to say it

✗ A desert is a dry where. — this is not wrong, but it is everyday talk.

✓ A desert is a dry place. — this is how a writer says it.

Ask yourself: “Have I got the capital and the period?”

Remember

A sentence you hear, you can write.

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