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TeachMe: 1st Grade
Let your eager learners practice their basic arithmetic and spelling skills with this fun interactive resource! For any primary grade teacher with access to an Apple mobile device, this is a must-have application.
Lerner Publishing
Teaching Vowel Combinations
Need some fun activities to augment your lessons on vowel patterns and phonemic awareness? Peruse a series of worksheets designed to help little ones with their early reading skills.
Curated OER
Instant Spelling Activity: 1st Grade
First graders practice their spelling skills. In this spelling lesson, 1st graders explore onsets and rimes as they complete an activity regarding double letters.
Curated OER
1st Grade Spelling: Short o
In this 1st grade home connection spelling practice worksheet, 1st graders examine 6 spelling words that feature the short o sound. Students write the words 1 time each.
Curated OER
Keyword Challenge
Sight word practice can be found here! First graders can read and practice spelling words such as get, said, and to. This is a handy resource to use as a center activity. Learners can practice using these words in sentences as well.
Illinois State Board of Education
Common Core Teaching and Learning Strategies
Here's a resource that deserves a place in your curriculum library, whether or not your school has adopted the Common Core. Designed for middle and high school language arts classes, the packet is packed with teaching tips, materials,...
Curated OER
High Frequency and Spelling Words: 3
Print this set of daily work activities to help learners boost spelling skills. They write words, write sentences, fill in the blanks, and read a story. Note: The mentioned story is not included.
Curated OER
Beginning and Ending Sounds - Lesson 1 of 2
Stamp, slap, and clap! Emergent readers demonstrate their awareness of the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds in spoken, short vowel, single-syllable words with a stamp/slap/clap activity. After identifying the letters and sounds of...
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Sounding Out CVCE Words
First graders explore vowels and consonants by participating in a flash card activity. In this phonetics lesson, 1st graders discuss the difference between short and long vowels and identify them within a story told to them by their...
K12 Reader
Fun in the Sun
Don't shun this activity based around -un words! Class members read a quick poem full of -un words and then respond to three comprehension questions about the text.
Curated OER
High Frequency and Spelling Words Practice
In this spelling and high frequency words worksheet, student complete activities using the high frequency words: find, much and thank, and spelling words: top, hop, hot, not, dot, lot, back, pick. oh, and yes.
Curated OER
Beginning and Ending Sounds
First graders practice their letter and word recognition skills. In this initial and final sounds lesson, 1st graders participate in a classroom activity that requires them to blend phonemes into spoken words and sound out multisyllable...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Fluency: Connected Text, Repeated Timed Reading
There are many different ways to build accuracy and fluency when reading. This exercise employs repetition and timed drills to get the job done. Learners time each other as they read a passage, recording each other's time and accuracy.
Curated OER
Sight Words and Letter Sounds
Is your elementary class learning letters and letter sounds? This take-home sheet provides a week's worth of practice for your learner at home. The repetitive nature helps learners remember!
Curated OER
All About Me Unit
Learners engage in an "All About Me," series of activities in the beginning of the year. All sorts of ideas are in this lesson plan to help students express themselves and get to know their classmates.
Curated OER
Short "E" Searching
Students engage in a lesson plan which uses resources from the PBS show, Between the Lions to help identify the sound "e" in words that are written, read and sung.
Curated OER
Lesson 6- Letter/Word Recognition
In this letter recognition worksheet, students name various letters and say the sounds. There are six sight words to memorize and seven short sentences to read.
Curated OER
Language Arts: Then and Now
First graders hear Great Grandma and I. They locate objects representing then (seed) and now (tomato). They make then and now charts for members of their families.
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Reading Homework for Kindergarten #7
In this reading homework for kindergarten #7 worksheet, students review this page for several days by naming letters, saying the sounds of letters, reading words, reading sentences, naming pictures and identifying initial sounds with...
Curated OER
Word and Letter Practice #10
In this word and letter practice activity, students say letters and sounds of letters, practice reading simple sentences and sight words, then say names of pictures and say the beginning sound of each.
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Spelling Word Flashcards
First graders draw pictures of spelling words. In this spelling lesson, 1st graders create flashcards by drawing a picture of each of the spelling words on one side and writing the actual word on the other side.
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Identifying Syllables Within Spoken Words
First graders participate in a conversation about what they want to become when they grow up, and identify syllables within the spoken words.
Curated OER
What's So Good About Popcorn?
First graders use a thinking map to organize a paragraph. They write and edit their paragraph about popcorn and type the final copy on the computer.
Curated OER
Fun With Graphs
First graders read about making graphs and lean how to make graphs using "The Graph Club" software.