Lesson · Grade 1 · English Language Arts
How print works: left to right, word by word, with spaces between words
- Grade 1
- English Language Arts
- 58 s
- British Columbia
- BC1-EN-11
A short sentence about a cat in a hat starts squished together, then spaces open between its words and the five words are counted. A pointing finger shows that reading from the right sounds silly. It then reads the line from the left, one word at a time, so the sentence makes sense.
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In one sentence
The question this lesson answers
Can you read these words about my cat?
Oh no, the letters are all squished together!
Transcript
What the lesson says
Can you read these words about my cat?
Oh no, the letters are all squished together!
Let's put spaces between the words.
Now we can see five words: one, two, three, four, five.
From the right, it says: hat, a, has, cat, my.
That sounds silly, and it makes no sense.
In English, we start on the left.
Then we go across to the right.
We read one word at a time.
My, cat, has, a, hat.
Now it makes sense: my cat has a hat!
Read left to right, word by word, with spaces between.
Curriculum
Where this fits
- British Columbia, Grade 1
English Language Arts, Language features, structures, and conventions: concepts of printBC1-EN-11
Previous: Letters Stand for SoundsNext: Letters Make Words, and Words Make Sentences
The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.
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