First Grade Comprehension Activities

First Grade Comprehension activities to help show your child the fun side of learning! From easy first grade comprehension activities to more advanced, we've got you covered!

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For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with her very own story using magnetic words inspired by 'Green Eggs and Ham' by Dr. Seuss.

Make a Story with Magnetic Words

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Build good first grade reading and writing skills, as well as family peace and quiet, with this hand made story book about mornings in your home.

Make a Morning Routine Book

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A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Play Picture Book Charades!

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Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes, while introducing a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Play Nursery Rhyme Madlibs!

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Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

Directions First: Reading to Draw

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This hunt for leprechaun gold is so much fun, kids won't even realize they're working their reading muscles at the same time.

Gold Hunt

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With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Practice Reading with Newspaper "Highlights"

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Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Play Story Ball: A Reading Comprehension Game

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Just by making a sandwich together, you can show your first grader the importance of sequence in reading an writing--and you can have fun, too!

Sequence Sentences...and Make Your Favorite Sandwich!

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Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Draw a Fairy Tale Map

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Give your first grader some extra practice in reading and writing with these 'monster marking' riddles!

Mystery Riddles

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This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Story Sequencing Activity

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In this arts and crafts, reading activity, help your first grader make this origami puppet to build up crucial reading comprehension skills and have fun!

Create an Origami Puppet

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This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

String Story Necklaces

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Make a 'feeling meter' that helps your first grader read key feeling words and communicate his emotions accurately to you.

Make an "I Feel" Meter

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