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Features

  • Six questions on what the unit builds on
  • Solve add to, take from and compare stories within 10, with pictures
  • Solve a put together story and write its number sentence
  • Fill in number bonds
  • Write + or − to make a number sentence true
  • A Score line, to sort the class before the unit
  • Answer key names the lesson each question leads into

Skills Covered

  • Add to and take from stories with pictures
  • A put together story
  • A compare story with pictures
  • Fill in number bonds
  • Write + or − to make a number sentence true

How to Use This Pack

One page to give on the first day of the unit on story problems to 20, before any teaching. Its six questions are on what the unit builds on: picture stories within 10, a part-part-whole story, number bonds, and choosing + or − to make a number sentence true. It has a Score line, and the key names the lesson each question leads into. The unit review and the unit test are packs of their own.

In the Classroom

Give the pre-check on the first day, reading each story aloud for students who are still learning to read, and sort the class by what they missed: a student who cannot yet tell adding from taking away needs counters to act out the stories in the first lessons, and one who misses the number bonds needs part-part-whole practice beside the unit. The compare story is new to most students, so a miss there is no surprise; it shows where to start.

At Home

Use it to see what your child needs before the unit on story problems starts: tell a short story with toys, like "You have 5 cars and get 3 more," and ask your child to show it and say how many.

Tips for Success

  • Give it before the first lesson, not after
  • Read each story aloud for students who are still learning to read
  • Read the score as a starting point, not a grade
  • Keep counters out so students can act out the stories
  • The key names the lesson each question leads into

Common Core Standards Alignment

This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:

  • K.OA.A.1 Show adding and taking away in many ways: fingers, objects, pictures, sounds, acting out, words, or number sentences.
  • K.OA.A.2 Solve story problems and add or subtract with totals up to 10, modeling them with objects or drawings.
  • K.OA.A.3 Break a number up to 10 into two parts several ways, recording each as a picture or equation (7 = 3 + 4).
  • 2.OA.B.2 Add and subtract to 20 quickly using strategies done in the head, and by year's end instantly recall every sum of two single-digit numbers.

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1st Grade Word Problems Pre-Check

A check to give before the unit on story problems to 20, on what the unit builds on. Students solve picture stories within 10 and a put together story, fill in number bonds, and write + or − to make number sentences true.

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What’s Included

  • A one-page pre-check (6 questions) with a Score line
  • An answer key that names each question's lesson and skill (2 pages in all)
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