Grade 1 ELA Weeks 15–16: Practice Workbook
Write on paper or in a notebook. Complete the reading question without looking at the teacher guide. Keep all student work private.
Week 15: Informational texts and evidence
Day 71: Identify topic
1. Reading: Read the passage in the student textbook aloud twice.
2. Understanding: What is the passage mainly about? Answer in a complete sentence.
3. Writing: Write a topic sentence about bees.
4. Editing: Check capitals, spaces, punctuation, and whether your answer matches the passage.
Day 72: Find details
1. Reading: Read the passage in the student textbook aloud twice.
2. Understanding: Name two materials a beaver uses. Answer in a complete sentence.
3. Writing: List two facts and draw a labeled dam.
4. Editing: Check capitals, spaces, punctuation, and whether your answer matches the passage.
Day 73: Compare facts
1. Reading: Read the passage in the student textbook aloud twice.
2. Understanding: How are the trees alike and different? Answer in a complete sentence.
3. Writing: Write one same and one different sentence.
4. Editing: Check capitals, spaces, punctuation, and whether your answer matches the passage.
Day 74: Text features
1. Reading: Read the passage in the student textbook aloud twice.
2. Understanding: What does the caption teach? Answer in a complete sentence.
3. Writing: Write a heading and caption for a drawing of a cloud.
4. Editing: Check capitals, spaces, punctuation, and whether your answer matches the passage.
Day 75: Research mini-report
1. Reading: Read the passage in the student textbook aloud twice.
2. Understanding: Give two facts from the text. Answer in a complete sentence.
3. Writing: Write three factual sentences about a robin.
4. Editing: Check capitals, spaces, punctuation, and whether your answer matches the passage.
Week 16: Narrative structure and dialogue
Day 76: Character feelings
1. Reading: Read the passage in the student textbook aloud twice.
2. Understanding: How did Lena probably feel at the end? What supports that? Answer in a complete sentence.
3. Writing: Write a sentence about trying again.
4. Editing: Check capitals, spaces, punctuation, and whether your answer matches the passage.
Day 77: Problem and solution
1. Reading: Read the passage in the student textbook aloud twice.
2. Understanding: What was the problem? How was it solved? Answer in a complete sentence.
3. Writing: Write problem and solution in two sentences.
4. Editing: Check capitals, spaces, punctuation, and whether your answer matches the passage.
Day 78: Setting
1. Reading: Read the passage in the student textbook aloud twice.
2. Understanding: When and where does the story happen? Answer in a complete sentence.
3. Writing: Add two sensory details to describe a place.
4. Editing: Check capitals, spaces, punctuation, and whether your answer matches the passage.
Day 79: Dialogue punctuation
1. Reading: Read the passage in the student textbook aloud twice.
2. Understanding: Who asked for help? Answer in a complete sentence.
3. Writing: Write two lines of dialogue using quotation marks.
4. Editing: Check capitals, spaces, punctuation, and whether your answer matches the passage.
Day 80: Narrative checkpoint
1. Reading: Read the passage in the student textbook aloud twice.
2. Understanding: Retell beginning, middle, end. Answer in a complete sentence.
3. Writing: Write a four-sentence story with a problem and solution.
4. Editing: Check capitals, spaces, punctuation, and whether your answer matches the passage.