Year 1 · Making Sentences · Summary
Year 1 English Making Sentences: summary and key words
Part of the Year 1 English making sentences chapter. Chapter overview · whole chapter on one page
Chapter summary
| Skill | Method |
|---|---|
| Words and spaces | A word is a group of letters. Leave a space between each word. |
| A sentence | A group of words that makes sense on its own and tells a whole idea. |
| Capital at the start | The first letter of a sentence is a capital letter, like T in The. |
| Full stop at the end | A full stop goes at the end of a sentence that tells something. |
| Names, places, days and I | Start these with a capital letter, even in the middle of a sentence. |
| Joining with and | Join two ideas with and. Use one full stop at the end. |
Can you…?
- I can count the words in a sentence, using the spaces between them
- I can say whether a group of words is a sentence
- I can start a sentence with a capital letter
- I can end a sentence that tells something with a full stop
- I can use capital letters for names, places, days of the week and I
- I can join two ideas with the word and
Key terms
- word
- a group of letters that we say together
- space
- the gap between two words
- sentence
- a group of words that makes sense on its own and tells a whole idea
- capital letter
- the big letter, like T or M
- small letter
- the little letter, like t or m
- full stop
- the small dot at the end of a sentence that tells something
- name
- the word we call a person or a place, like Amira or Leeds
- day of the week
- Monday, Tuesday and so on; always starts with a capital letter
- and
- a joining word that joins two ideas or two things
- I
- the word we use for ourselves when we talk about me; always a capital letter