Language Fundamentals (Grade 1)

Language Fundamentals, Grade 1 is a comprehensive resource for grade-level grammar, mechanics, usage, and vocabulary practice. The broad scope of language skills and the range in difficulty of the activity pages enable you to precisely target those skills that each student needs to practice.

Skills practiced include the following (age-appropriate terminology is used on student pages):

- Grammar Skills: common, proper, & possessive nouns; verbs; irregular verbs; comparative and superlative adjectives
- Sentence Skills: complete versus incomplete sentences, subjects and predicates, declarative and interrogative sentences
- Mechanics Skills: end punctuation; abbreviations of days, titles, and streets; contractions; commas within a series
- Usage: double negatives, indefinite articles, frequently confused words
- Vocabulary: rhyming words, synonyms, antonyms, compound words, contractions
- Sentence Editing: After practicing a skill, use the corresponding pages in this section for application to student writing. Students edit and correct sentences with common errors.