Kentucky Reading and Writing L.1.4.c

ELA1st GradeLanguage

The Standard

L.1.4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.

With guidance and support, identify frequently occurring root words and their inflectional forms.

Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students find a familiar base word in words like jumps, jumped, and jumping. With a teacher's help, they tell what each ending adds to the meaning.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given play, plays, played, and playing, a student points to play in each word. They use plays for one person, played for yesterday, and playing for an action happening now.
Common Misconceptions: Students may call jumped the base word instead of jump. They may use -ed and -ing as if both mean the action is happening now.
How to Assess It: On an exit ticket, ask students to circle play in played and playing. Then have them complete: 'Yesterday I ___' and 'Now I am ___.'

Lesson moves

Give pairs jump, -s, -ed, and -ing tiles; have them build each word and act out its meaning.
Ask, 'How do jumped and jumping tell different stories about a playground game?' Have students write one sentence for each.
Call out 'Yesterday I jumped' or 'I am jumping'; students cover the matching word on a bingo board.
During cleanup, post 'I clean,' 'Mia cleans,' and 'We are cleaning' on the job chart; students underline clean in each.

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