Lesson · Grade 1 · English Language Arts
Letters Make Words, and Words Make Sentences
- Grade 1
- English Language Arts
- 49 s
- British Columbia
- BC1-EN-12
A short sentence about a cat, "The cat sits.", comes apart into its three words, and the word "cat" comes apart into its three letters, each counted one at a time. The letters then join back into the word and the words into the sentence, and one letter, one word and the whole sentence are named.
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In one sentence
The question this lesson answers
Look, here is a cat sitting down.
Read it with me: the cat sits.
Transcript
What the lesson says
Look, here is a cat sitting down.
Read it with me: the cat sits.
What is this sentence made of?
This sentence is made of words.
Let's count the words: one, two, three.
Each word is made of letters.
The word cat has three letters: one, two, three.
Letters join together to make a word.
Words join together to make a sentence.
Here is a letter, a word, and a sentence.
Letters make words, and words make sentences.
Curriculum
Where this fits
- British Columbia, Grade 1
English Language Arts, Language features, structures, and conventions: print awarenessBC1-EN-12
Previous: How print works: left to right, word by word, with spaces between wordsNext: Rhyming Words: The Same Sound at the End
The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.
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