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1st grade · English Language Arts · Unit 17 of 19

Feelings, Senses and Reasons

Feeling and sense words, supporting details, and joining words.

What your child practices

Your child finds words that show feelings and the five senses, picks the detail an author gives to support an idea, and chooses joining words such as and, but, so, or and because.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: 1R4; 1R8; 1L6 · words for feelings and senses, the details that support an idea, and joining words such as because

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Sense words tell how things look, sound, smell, taste or feel.
  2. Feeling words show how someone feels.
  3. Joining words like and and because link ideas.

Example: “The bread smelled warm and yummy.” Which sense is used? The word “smelled” is a clue. We smell with our nose. Answer: smell

Feelings, Senses and Reasons in New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 17 of 19 in 1st grade English Language Arts, after Plan and Write and before Word Clues.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which word tells how something sounds?

    • sweet
    • buzzing
    • fluffy
    • striped

  2. Question 2

    Which word best joins the ideas? “It rained, ___ we stayed in.”

    • or
    • if
    • but
    • so

  3. Question 3

    Which word best joins the ideas? “I wore a coat ___ it was cold.”

    • but
    • or
    • the
    • because

  4. Question 4

    “Jada grinned and hugged her trophy.” Which word shows a feeling?

    • and
    • her
    • trophy
    • grinned

  5. Question 5

    “The bread smelled warm and yummy.” Which sense is used?

    • touch
    • sight
    • hearing
    • smell

  6. Question 6

    “The wind howled.” What does “howled” help you hear?

    • a ringing bell
    • no sound at all
    • a soft, quiet wind
    • a loud, long wind sound

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