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1st Grade Grammar Activities

21 1st grade grammar activities. Teacher favorites: Noun, Adjective, and Verb Activity and Position Words Activity. How teachers use these

1st Grade Grammar Activities

21 1st grade grammar activities. Teacher favorites: Noun, Adjective, and Verb Activity and Position Words Activity. How teachers use these

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Activity1st GradeNoun, Adjective, and Verb Activity

A noun, adjective, and verb activity for 1st to 3rd grade: sort 24 popcorn word cards into three buckets, then practice in sentences. Answer key included for easy checking.

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Activity1st GradePosition Words Activity

In this position words activity, preschool to 1st grade children match butterfly pictures to above, below, next to, in front of, and behind. Answer key included.

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Activity1st GradeDescribing Words Activity

This describing words activity has 1st and 2nd Grade students match 8 picture cards with 16 adjective cards, with a recording sheet, practice page and answer key included.

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Activity1st GradeDescribing Nouns Adjective Activity

This describing nouns adjective activity has 1st and 2nd Grade partners describe picture cards with adjectives and play a guessing game. Answer key included.

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Activity1st GradeNoun BINGO

This noun bingo activity has 24 picture cards and 4 boards for Preschool to 2nd Grade, plus a practice page with an answer key included, so kids learn nouns while they play.

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Activity1st GradeCapitalize It Activity

Using Capitalize It Activity, students sort the topic cards into Do Capitalize and Don't Capitalize categories.

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Activity1st GradeUsing Clues to Describe Activity

Using this Using Clues to Describe Activity, students describe familiar people, places, things, and events.

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Activity1st GradeComplete Sentences with Subject and Predicate Activity

This complete sentences with subject and predicate activity has 1st to 3rd grade students match picture subject cards to predicate cards, then practice on a worksheet. Answer key included.

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Activity1st GradeCommon and Proper Nouns Activity

This common and proper nouns activity has 1st to 3rd grade students sort snowflake word cards on a winter mat, with a practice page and answer key included for easy checking.

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Activity1st GradeNutty Nouns Activity

This nutty nouns activity lets Kindergarten to 2nd grade students sort picture cards into person, place and thing, then practice with a word-box sort. Answer key included.

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Activity1st GradeDescribe It Figurative Language Activity

This describe it figurative language activity for 1st and 2nd Grade has kids match adjective word cards to the pictures they describe. Answer key included.

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Activity1st GradeSlap Shot Hockey Telling Sentences Activity

This slap shot hockey telling sentences activity for 1st and 2nd Grade has kids race pucks on a rink board by sorting telling and asking sentences. Answer key included.

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Activity1st GradeWriting the Date Activity

This writing the date activity lets 1st to 3rd graders build dates with month, day, year, and comma cards, then write them correctly. Answer key included for easy checking.

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Activity1st GradeApples to Apples Adjectives Activity

Describing Words Activity, Adjectives Activity, Parts of Speech, Descriptive Words

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Activity1st GradeA Frog and a Log Position Words Activity

This frog and a log position words activity helps K-2nd Grade children match picture cards to on, under, above, next to, in front of and behind, with practice and an answer key included.

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Activity1st GradeAbout Me Mobile Activity

Using About Me Mobile Activity, students can create a mobile to introduce themselves and share important information about themselves at the beginning of a new school year!

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Activity1st GradeWhose Is It Apostrophe Activity

This whose is it apostrophe activity has 1st to 3rd Grade students match animals with the things they own and write each pair with an apostrophe, with a recording sheet, practice page and answer key included.

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Activity1st GradeMonsters an Adjectivity Adjectives Activity

In this monsters an adjectivity adjectives activity, 1st-2nd grade children sort describing words and use them to describe four silly monsters. Answer key included.

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Activity1st GradeGetting Down with Proper Nouns Activity

This getting down with proper nouns activity has students match common and proper noun cards, then write each proper noun with a capital. For 1st to 3rd grade, answer key included.

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Activity1st GradeOn the Road to Gold Prepositions Activity

This on the road to gold prepositions activity has 1st to 3rd grade students find prepositions on self-checking sports task cards and race to a gold medal. Answer key included.

From our teachers' playbook

Every word has a job!

What do 1st graders learn about grammar?

In 1st grade, kids learn that words have jobs. Nouns name people, places and things. Verbs show action. Adjectives describe, and pronouns like he, she and they stand in for nouns. Kids also start every sentence with a capital letter, capitalize names, and end with a period, question mark or exclamation point. A sentence can be as simple as The big dog runs. The click moment is when kids find the noun and the verb in their own sentences.

Our favorite ways to teach 1st grade grammar

Grammar sticks when kids move, sort and talk. These moves keep it lively.

Rap the verbs

Play a verb rap and have kids do each action as they hear it: jump, clap, spin. Then ask, "What were all those words?" Verbs! Moving to the words makes "action word" mean something.

Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).

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Sort the nouns

Put picture cards on the rug and kids sort them into people, places and things. Then they use one of each in a sentence. Sorting real examples builds the category before the label.

Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.

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Adjective flash

Flash an adjective card and kids find something in the room it describes. "Soft!" Someone points to the rug. A quick daily round builds describing words fast.

Why it works: a big review of study methods ranked quick self-quizzing among the most powerful ways to remember (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).

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Questions parents and teachers ask us

What grammar do 1st graders learn?

First graders learn nouns, verbs, adjectives and pronouns, plus capital letters and end punctuation. They write complete sentences and start using conjunctions like "and" and "but."

How do I explain nouns and verbs to a 1st grader?

A noun is a person, place or thing. A verb is something you can do. Try "Can I touch it?" for nouns and "Can I do it?" for verbs.

What is a complete sentence in 1st grade?

A complete sentence has a naming part (who or what) and a telling part (what they do). It starts with a capital letter and ends with punctuation.

How can I practice grammar at home?

Play quick games: "Name three nouns in the kitchen" or "Act out a verb." Read together and point out capital letters and punctuation.