All Common Core: 1st Grade English Language Arts Resources
Example Questions
Example Question #11 : Reading: Foundational Skills
What is missing from the sentence below?
Sara is my friend
A question mark
A period
A capital letter at the beginning of the sentence
A period
A sentence always needs to begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark: period, exclamation point, or question mark.
This sentence starts with a capital letter, but it does not have ending punctuation. This sentence is statement, so it is missing a period.
Example Question #1 : Distinguish Long From Short Vowel Sounds: Ccss.Ela Literacy.Rf.1.2.A
Which word does not belong with the others?
Hint: Think of long and short vowels.
Make
Mate
Sad
Rake
Sad
Let's start by saying each of the answer choices out loud:
Rake
Make
Mate
Sad
Now, let's look at the vowels in each of the words.
Rake
Make
Mate
Sad
All of the vowels are the letter a, but do they all sound the same? No, they do not.
Rake, make, and mate all have a long vowel sound.
Sad has a short vowel sound. Since only one of the words has a short vowel sound, that is the word that does not belong with the others.
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