Reading: Foundational Skills - 1st Grade Reading

A sentence always needs to begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark: period, exclamation point, or question mark.

This sentence ends with a period, but it missing the capital letter at the beginning. The word "stir" should be "Stir", with a capital S.

A sentence always needs to begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark: period, exclamation point, or question mark.

This sentence starts with a capital letter, but it does not have ending punctuation. This sentence is asking a question, so it is missing a question mark.

A sentence always needs to begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark: period, exclamation point, or question mark.

This sentence starts with a capital letter, but it does not have ending punctuation. This sentence is asking a question, so it is missing a question mark.

A sentence always needs to begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark: period, exclamation point, or question mark.

This sentence starts with a capital letter, but it does not have ending punctuation. This sentence is asking a question, so it is missing a question mark.

A sentence always needs to begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark: period, exclamation point, or question mark.

This sentence starts with a capital letter, but it does not have ending punctuation. This sentence is statement, so it is missing a period.

Whenever you write a sentence, the first word must always be capitalized. It does not matter if the first word is happy, sad, or funny, the word just has to be capitalized.

A question should end with a question mark.

A sentence always needs to begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark: period, exclamation point, or question mark.

This sentence ends with a period, but it missing the capital letter at the beginning. The word "today" should be "Today", with a capital T.

A sentence always needs to begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark: period, exclamation point, or question mark.

This sentence ends with a question mark, but it missing the capital letter at the beginning. The word "will" should be "Will", with a capital W.

A sentence always needs to begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark: period, exclamation point, or question mark.

This sentence ends with a period, but it missing the capital letter at the beginning. The word "she" should be "She", with a capital S.

A sentence always needs to begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark: period, exclamation point, or question mark.

This sentence ends with a period, but it missing the capital letter at the beginning. The word "he" should be "He", with a capital H.

Let's start by saying each of the answer choices out loud:

Rake

Make

Mate

Sad

Now, let's look at the vowels in each of the words.

Rake

Make

Mate

Sad

All of the vowels are the letter a, but do they all sound the same? No, they do not.

Rake, make, and mate all have a long vowel sound.

Sad has a short vowel sound. Since only one of the words has a short vowel sound, that is the word that does not belong with the others.

A sentence always needs to begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark: period, exclamation point, or question mark.

This sentence ends with a period, but it missing the capital letter at the beginning. The word "today" should be "Today", with a capital T.

A sentence always needs to begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark: period, exclamation point, or question mark.

This sentence ends with a question mark, but it missing the capital letter at the beginning. The word "will" should be "Will", with a capital W.

A sentence always needs to begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark: period, exclamation point, or question mark.

This sentence ends with a period, but it missing the capital letter at the beginning. The word "she" should be "She", with a capital S.

A sentence always needs to begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark: period, exclamation point, or question mark.

This sentence ends with a period, but it missing the capital letter at the beginning. The word "he" should be "He", with a capital H.

A sentence always needs to begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark: period, exclamation point, or question mark.

This sentence ends with a period, but it missing the capital letter at the beginning. The word "stir" should be "Stir", with a capital S.

A sentence always needs to begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark: period, exclamation point, or question mark.

This sentence starts with a capital letter, but it does not have ending punctuation. This sentence is asking a question, so it is missing a question mark.

A sentence always needs to begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark: period, exclamation point, or question mark.

This sentence starts with a capital letter, but it does not have ending punctuation. This sentence is asking a question, so it is missing a question mark.

A sentence always needs to begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark: period, exclamation point, or question mark.

This sentence starts with a capital letter, but it does not have ending punctuation. This sentence is asking a question, so it is missing a question mark.