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This Week in First Grade
Week 27
Long Vowels and Silent E
Long Vowels and Silent E
Teach your child to magically transform words. Show them how to change words with short vowel sounds to words with long vowels sounds by adding a silent E. For example, magically change the word "kit" to the word "kite"!
Your class may have mastered long vowels, but it is still important to review them! Instruct students to write a short vowel word on their personal whiteboards, then teach them to add an E to transform it into a long vowel word.
Silent "e" Worksheet
Worksheet
Silent "e" Worksheet
Silent "e" worksheets are important to phonics success. In this silent "e" worksheet, kids learn how to make silent "e" words out of long vowels sounds.
kindergarten
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Presto, Change-o, Silent E!
Worksheet
Presto, Change-o, Silent E!
Mastering the silent E will help your students build their reading chops. This worksheet encourages students along by helping them visualize how adding an E can change a short vowel word to a long vowel word.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Silent "e" Word Play
Worksheet
Silent "e" Word Play
Help your first grader practice writing and sounding out silent "e" words with this helpful worksheet.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Place Value: Tens and Ones
Place Value: Tens and Ones
Keep a hundreds chart handy when working on adding and subtracting ten. Display it on your refrigerator, family bulletin board, or other highly trafficked part of the home.
A place value lesson is a wonderful opportunity to encourage students to build numbers using base-ten blocks. Invite your class to build different numbers, then challenge them to add and subtract tens. What number patterns do students notice?
Tens and Ones
Interactive Worksheet
Tens and Ones
Boost your first grader's number sense with a lesson in place value up to the tens place.
1st grade
Math
Interactive Worksheet
Place Value Test
Interactive Worksheet
Place Value Test
Get back on track with this place value test focusing on the tens and ones place.
1st grade
Math
Interactive Worksheet
Multiples of 10 Game Show
Game
Multiples of 10 Game Show
Kids practice adding and taking away 10 in this silly game show.
1st grade
Math
Game
Main Idea
Main Idea
Read nonfiction texts with your child at home this week to focus on the main idea. Encourage your child to identify the main idea, and supporting details, of favorite books. If your child is reading fiction, support them in identifying the central message or theme of the story.
Revisit nonfiction texts this week to focus on the main idea. Encourage students to identify the main idea, and supporting details of favorite books. If your students are reading fiction, support them in identifying the central message or theme of the story.
Finding the Main Idea: Apples
Worksheet
Finding the Main Idea: Apples
This worksheet helps students, particularly first graders, to develop their understanding of nonfiction texts.
1st grade
Worksheet
Finding the Main Idea: Plants
Worksheet
Finding the Main Idea: Plants
This worksheet challenges kids to find the main idea in the passage all about how plants get their food.
1st grade
Worksheet
Layers of the Rainforest: Level G
Story
Layers of the Rainforest: Level G
Kids who are practicing reading can try handling multiple sentences at once and working with new vocabulary words in this leveled book about the rainforest.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Story
Realistic Fiction Writing
Realistic Fiction Writing
Before your child begins writing a realistic fiction story, pause to consider what the setting might look like. Help your child form a clearer picture by asking questions.
Invite young fiction writers to draw from real-life situations in their work on realistic fiction stories. As they brainstorm or illustrate the story setting, encourage them to consider the role it plays in their story.
"Somebody Wanted" Prewriting Organizer
Worksheet
"Somebody Wanted" Prewriting Organizer
The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Story Mountain Prewriting
Worksheet
Story Mountain Prewriting
Young writers will traverse the story mountain to create a narrative plot of their own! Students will consider various story elements, including characters, setting, climax, problem, and solution with this great visual aid.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Write and Draw Paper: 8.5" x 11"
Worksheet
Write and Draw Paper: 8.5" x 11"
Children will find space to draw and write with this simple, versatile printable.
kindergarten
Worksheet
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