Year 1 English Making Sentences: lesson and practice

By the end of this chapter you will be able to

• Count the words in a sentence, using the spaces between them
• Say whether a group of words is a sentence
• Start each sentence with a capital letter
• End each sentence that tells something with a full stop
• Use capital letters for names, places, days of the week and I
• Join two ideas with the word and

You should already know

• Capital and small letters (Chapter 1)
• Adding endings such as -s and -ing (Chapter 5)

Where this leads

• Questions and exclamations (Chapter 7)
• Writing my own sentences and stories (Chapter 11)