Taking the time to teach your first grade students a few basic writing skills can prevent years of bad writing habits. In this video, we will show you how to imaginatively introduce the basic skills of ending a sentence with a period- staving off run-on sentences; using -S to show more than one- preventing the habit of spelling dogs:dogz; and -ED to show that something happened in the past- preventing the use of -T and -D usage (e.g., playd, skipt).