Do you worry about your kids’ critical thinking skills? It’s natural to want your children to be equipped to handle the world as best as they can be.
Children learn critical reading and writing skills in the first grade. That is why I supplement my son’s magnet school education with extra practice at home. Plus, he gets bored and likes doing worksheets. I know, it’s weird.
These days, more and more people are writing in what I like to call “texting short-hand.” First words in sentences are not capitalized correctly. Sentences are not punctuated properly. That is why I feel it is even more important to stress these basic first grade editing principles.
The simple sentences are easy for first graders who are at different skill levels to read. I included a mix of questions, exclamatory sentences, and declarative sentences.
And it includes pie. Everything is better with pie 😉
Thanksgiving 1st Grade Editing Thanksgiving Printable
I came up with these five sentences after I asked the kids what they remember about Thanksgiving. They remember the food. We don’t do Black Friday shopping because it takes away from Thanksgiving, in my opinion.
I think it is a bit unfair for what is arguably my favorite holiday to get overlooked due to Christmas–or worse yet, be seen as the precursor to the start of the Christmas shopping season.
Perhaps if we focus on Thanksgiving just a little bit more this year, the kids will grow up remembering Thanksgiving as a time to give thanks and enjoy their time with their family rather than as the meal they have before shopping all night.
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Great printable, my only critique is leave the “Indian maiden” off. I am a Navajo teacher, teaching on the Navajo Nation. I try my hardest to get my students to be proud of who they are and to not fall into stereotypes. I’ve been asked if “Indians” are dead. The only Native people they see depicted in media is the “Indian brave or maiden” like the one pictured. They do not realize that we are in fact Native, or “Indian”. Please end the the misinformation, especially since the Native people that interacted with the Pilgrims were Wampanoag and they don’t dress that way.
Thank you for sharing your perspective. This is an older printable and was originally published a couple of years ago. I will keep images that perpetuate the stereotype out of all future printables. – Herchel
What a great resource! I use to have my students do an activity like this everyday when I taught 2nd grade. Thanks for sharing at the #Made4Kids Link Party!
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I love this so much – I just printed it for my first grader. This is the exact level she’s at. Thank you SO much! 🙂
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Thank you! Ilove when something I made to help my child is helpful to another!