All Common Core: 1st Grade English Language Arts Resources
Example Questions
Example Question #11 : Understand The Organization And Basic Features Of Print: Ccss.Ela Literacy.Rf.1.1
What is missing from the sentence below?
Sara is my friend
A capital letter at the beginning of the sentence
A question mark
A period
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.
Sad
Rake
Mate
Make
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.
All Common Core: 1st Grade English Language Arts Resources
