Kentucky Reading and Writing L.K.1.a
The Standard
- L.K.1
- When writing or speaking, demonstrate appropriate use of:
common nouns and verbs.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Conventions of General American English
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify words that name people, places, and things. They also identify words that tell what someone or something does, and use both kinds of words in simple sentences.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can point to dog and jumps in “The dog jumps” and explain what each word does. They can make a sentence of their own, such as “The teacher sings.”
Common Misconceptions
- A child may call dog a verb because a dog can move. Some children think only objects are nouns, so they miss people and places.
How to Assess It
- Write “The dog jumps” on the board. Ask students to circle the word that names an animal and underline the word that tells what it does.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs word cards for dog, school, hop, and eat, and have them sort the cards into names and actions.
Ask partners, “In The cat sleeps, which word names something, and which tells what it does?”
Play noun or verb corners: call out teacher, park, skip, and sing, and have children walk to the matching corner.
At lunch, ask children to name a person they see and tell one action that person does.
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