1st Grade Reading Activities
First grade is a year of firsts: your child's first full day of school, the first time she'll write a small story herself, and the first time she'll read a complete book cover to cover. We've got dozens of wacky reading and math activities, cool science experiments, and indoor and outdoor games to keep the learning fun.
Make Your Own Reading Tour Pointer
Help your first grader practice his sight words by creating a reading pointer and having him take the family on a house-wide reading tour!
ABC Book of Fun with Dad
With Father's Day coming up soon, why not connect the holiday with some valuable literacy learning, and make Dad happy in the process? Here's a simple, fun way to do it.
Make a Family Time Capsule This New Year's
"Wrap up" the old year and welcome the new one with this family time capsule that supports your first grader's reading and writing skills.
Play Punctuation Red Light/Green Light!
With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.
Play Flip Over Vowels
Hereâs an activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words and help your child get a quick visual representation of how adding a silent e to the end of a word changes the vowel sound in the middle.
Practice Reading with Newspaper "Highlights"
With a newspaper, a highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.
Make a Morning Routine Book
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.
Guess The First Letter: A Reading Challenge
What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.
Play the Consonant Blend Scavenger Hunt
Combine your child's love for scavenger hunts with their budding reading skills to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.
It's All Natural! A Materials Scavenger Hunt
For literal-minded first graders, it's a stretch to understand that so much that we use day to day came from something in nature. Here's a way to make that connection - and encourage a young environmentalist, too.
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The Declaration of Independence: Would You Sign It?
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