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Kindergarten Grammar Worksheet - Building Confidence
Read each line. Circle finished or not finished.
We can hop.
A cat naps.
The big dog
The sun is hot.
We can
The dog runs.
A little cat
The hot sun
A sentence tells a whole idea: who or what, and what happens. A group of words that stops too soon, such as The big dog, leaves the listener waiting for the rest. Children hear this difference long before they write it, and the way to catch it is to read the words aloud and listen for the end. On this page every item is a short line, and the child circles finished if it is a whole sentence or not finished if something is missing.
Half of the lines are complete sentences and half stop too soon, in pairs so that the same idea appears both ways: The dog runs and The little dog. Support sheets use three-word lines. Standard and challenge sheets use longer lines where the missing part is harder to hear. Say each line aloud with a pause at the end. Does it sound done?
Common Core standard: L.K.1.F
The dog runs. is a whole idea: finished. The little dog is not: what did the dog do? not finished.
Choosing finished because the line starts with a capital letter or ends with a period, without thinking about the idea.
Read it aloud. Does it tell who and what happens?
Choosing finished because the line starts with a capital letter or ends with a period, without thinking about the idea.
Read it aloud. Does it tell who and what happens?
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