DLI 1st grade guide

Canyons School District

Instructional Supports Department

Craft and Structure

● What does mean? ● What is your evidence? ● Let’s take apart this sentence. Who is “you”? ● Explain your thinking. ● What does mean? ● How do you know? ● Any other phrases that are confusing? ● What is the difference between (2 vocabulary words)? ● Define . ● Where is (an apostrophe) used in this book? ● Where does it represent a contraction / possession?

● How is this narrative different when the author used dialogue versus when the narrator just spoke / told the story? ● What do you learn when there is dialogue? ● What is dialogue? How is it used in this book? ● When there is dialogue, is the narrator speaking? ● Who is speaking? ● Why are the chapters in this book? ● What is (a word) written in all capital letters? ● Do the illustrations match the sequence of the set? ● Is the character good or bad at the end of the story? Why / why not?

● When does our author use humor? ● Why did the author do that? ● Can you picture it in your mind? ● What helped you? ● Look at the illustrations. What (common idea) can we learn about from them? ● How do we learn the character’s name before the author told us? author chose (character to be the smartest? ● How do the pictures tell the story? ● Why do you think the