Support first graders with developing their basic language skills using this Common Core checklist. With each standard rewritten as a positive I can statement, students are encouraged to work hard toward reaching these clear...

Help your early elementary learners write complex or compound sentences using conjunctions. They use the listed conjunctions to combine five different sentences. They then use the space provided to compose a complex sentence of their own.

First graders go on an in-school scavenger hunt to get to know the many kinds of people that make up an elementary school community. They work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of the workers they find.

Students write their own sentences that each includes a series of words to punctuate correctly.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will recognize the definition of a noun, use the highlighter tool to find nouns in a sentence and recognize common and proper nouns.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces nouns: person, place or thing. There are opportunities provided for students to practice.