Grammar words: letter, word, sentence
Use basic grammatical terminology when discussing reading and writing: letter, capital letter, word, singular, plural, sentence, punctuation, full stop, question mark, exclamation mark
What a learner can do afterwards
- Name punctuation marks correctly when pointed out in text
- Use terms like 'capital letter' and 'full stop' when editing writing
- Explain what a 'sentence' is using the correct term
1 · Read
Reading and writing have special words too. They help you talk about your writing with a grown-up. Letters make words, and words make sentences.
A sentence is a group of words. It tells a whole idea, like 'The cat sat.'
Words can mean one or more than one. 'Pig' means just one pig. That is called singular. 'Pigs' means more than one. That is called plural. The little s on the end often does the job.
Look at this sentence: 'The cat sat.' It has three words: The, cat, sat. It starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop.
Punctuation marks have names too. A full stop (.) ends a telling sentence. A question mark (?) ends an asking sentence. An exclamation mark (!) ends a shouting sentence.
Letters build words, words build sentences that punctuation marks help you read.
The rewritten readings were written for this dataset.
2 · Watch
Take it off screen
Where it sits
Where this leads
Jobs that lean on this skill. Follow one to see everything it is built on.
24 questions wait behind this lesson, each with its answer explained. Every answer feeds the sky: stars light as they are learned, and dim when it is time to come back.