Every sentence is about someone or something. Finding that part sounds easy until a first grader meets a sentence with two naming words in it, or a naming part four words long. This course teaches the one question that finds the naming part every time, and then works through the cases where the obvious answer is the wrong one.
Students learn that the naming part travels as a whole group, so “The old brown dog” is the naming part and “dog” on its own is not. They learn to spot naming words that sit in the telling part and are not what the sentence is about. They finish by supplying missing naming parts of their own, and by judging whether a naming part actually makes sense with the rest of the sentence.
Written for Grade 1 students working on their own, with a parent, or in a classroom. Nothing is needed except a screen, and pencil and paper for the practice sections.
What you will learn
- Find the naming part of a sentence by asking who or what it is about
- Take the whole naming part and not just one word of it
- Tell a naming part from a naming word that sits in the telling part
- Add a naming part to a group of words that is missing one
- Choose a naming part that makes sense with what the sentence tells
A note for parents and teachers: subject is the term students will meet in later grades. It is introduced here alongside the child-friendly label rather than in place of it.