1st grade Reading Fiction Resources

Story Comprehension: Drawing Conclusions

Three Little Pigs: 5 W's Reading Comprehension

This lesson focuses on reading comprehension by answering the 5W's about the story, The Three Little Pigs.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Reading Comprehension Practice Test

Story Comprehension: Drawing Conclusions

Help your beginning reader boost her reading comprehension by figuring out what happened next in three different story lines.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Reading Comprehension Practice Test

What's the main idea? Help your child review reading comprehension questions like this with this at-home practice test.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Reading Pictures

Reading Pictures

In this lesson, students will practice "reading" pictures. They will look at the details in pictures in order to make predictions about what happens in a text. This lesson can be used alone or with the Predicting Pictures lesson plan.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

A Feast of Fairy Tales

Readers Record Their Thinking

A Feast of Fairy Tales

It won’t take all the king’s horses and all the king’s men to put these mixed-up fairy tales back together again! Work on reading comprehension and story structure with this book of simple stories.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Workbook

Readers Record Their Thinking

It is important for students to stop and think as they read. This activity/lesson is a fun and quick way to see how students are thinking as they read.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Reading Inventories

Hungry for the Digraph Th

Reading Inventories

Want to engage students in reading? Give them books that they want to read! This lesson will give you a chance to learn about your readers so that you can best support them to become fluent readers.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

The Little Red Hen: Story Patterns

Hungry for the Digraph Th

This quirky lesson will have young readers hungry to identify three and four letter words containing the digraph "th" in Eric Carle's classic The Hungry Caterpillar.

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Pledging Allegiance to the Flag

The Little Red Hen: Story Patterns

With some help from The Little Red Hen, young readers will have fun enhancing their reading skills while learning about the value of hard work.

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Pledging Allegiance to the Flag

The Pledge of Allegiance has been recited for years, but how many truly know its meaning? This lesson allows our student citizens a chance to learn and appreciate the pledge, as they understand the meaning behind it.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Picture Comprehension

Picture Comprehension

Picture comprehension is a great intro to reading comprehension! Kids will simply identify what is going on in each picture.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Read Between the Lines

What is Cause and Effect?

Read Between the Lines

When it comes to reading, it’s all about inferring. Kids can learn how to use clues in a text to understand a character’s thoughts or follow the action, in this book about jumping to conclusions.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Workbook

Jack and the Beanstalk Fun Pack

What is Cause and Effect?

Help your child understand cause and effect with this practice sheet.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Jack and the Beanstalk Fun Pack

This workbook tells the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Read, count and measure along with Jack!

1st grade

Math

Workbook

Main Ideas and Details

Main Ideas and Details

Take your students to a magical place by having them read stories such as "The Ugly Duckling" and "Rumpelstiltskin." They can read these magical stories and figure out the main idea and details in them!

1st grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Short E 2

Guided Lesson

Short E 2

The short E sound, found in words such as leg, lemon and pen, is one of the most common vowel sounds in the English language, and one that first graders will often find in the texts they are learning to read. This lesson provides guided practice with the short E sound through targeted instruction and helpful examples. Check out our short E worksheets at the end of the lesson.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Guided Lesson

I Can Find the Main Idea

I Can Find the Main Idea

This flowery lesson has students filling in daisy-shaped graphic organizers with story details. Your young readers will love improving their comprehension skills with this lesson's creative activities.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Character Detectives

Character Detectives

Your students will learn all about what makes a fictional character special when they become character detectives! Use this lesson to introduce the concept of using key details from a text to gather information.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Ready, Set, Read

Ready, Set, Read

Is your budding reader up for a challenge? Help your child get familiar with the important elements of a story as well as its structure while putting his critical thinking skills to the test.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Workbook

All About Animals

All About Animals

Things animals need, where they live, why they camouflage, this workbook is a den of learning! Kids can cut and paste pictures, play a memory game, work on writing and categorizing skills, too.

1st grade

Science

Workbook

Wh Questions

Storytelling: Identifying Elements in Wonderland

Wh Questions

Help your child learn the "Wh words," who, what, where, why and when, with this charming story about a day at the dog park.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

The Three Little Pigs Finger Puppets Play

Storytelling: Identifying Elements in Wonderland

In this lesson, your students will be taken into wonderland by reading familiar stories such as The Ugly Duckling. Your students will identify characters, setting, and main events in these stories.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

The Three Little Pigs Finger Puppets Play

Help improve your class' reading comprehension and language development with this lesson that has them retell a familiar story in groups.

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Main Idea of a Story

Draw Beginning, Middle, and End

Main Idea of a Story

Finding the main idea of a story is a fundamental reading comprehension skill. Help your child tackle reading with this beginner's worksheet!

1st grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet