Language Fundamentals, Grade 1 will give first-graders the grade-appropriate practice they need for a broad spectrum of language skills -- grammar, sentences, mechanics, and more. You'll love the test-format review pages and the sentence-editing exercises where students apply the skills to writing. Skills practiced include the following (age-appropriate terminology is used on student pages): * Grammar Skills: common, proper, & possessive nouns; verbs; irregular verbs; comparative and superlative adjectives * Sentence Skills: complete verses incomplete sentences, subjects and predicates, declarative and interrogative sentences * Mechanics Skills: end punctuation; abbreviations of days, titles, and streets; contractions; commas within a series * Usage: double negatives, indefinite articles, frequently confused words * Vocabulary: rhyming words, synonyms, antonyms, compound words, contractions * Sentence Editing: After practicing a skill, use the corresponding pages in this section for application to student writing. Students edit and correct sentences with common errors.