I know it's only the beginning of the school year, but I am already beginning to see growth in writing! In 1st grade we really try to reinforce that a sentence always always always has a capital letter and some kind of ending mark. (Right now we are only talking about periods...we'll get to question marks and exclamation marks later) Last week and this week we have started teaching the kiddoes about nouns and verbs using multi-sensory grammar. Each part of speech is a different color. Nouns are yellow and verbs are orange.