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This Week in First Grade
Week 33
Compound Words
Compound Words
Compound words are two words put together to make a new word. For example, cup plus cake equals cupcake, and base plus ball equals baseball. Ask your child to brainstorm compound words, and keep a running list this week!
Introduce compound words by explaining that compound words are two words put together to make a new word with a new meaning. Hold up pictures of different parts of compound words and see if the class can guess the compound word. For example, cup plus cake makes cupcake.
Word Addition: Compound Words 1
Worksheet
Word Addition: Compound Words 1
Using a picture as a clue, kids put two words together to make a compound word for each item on this reading worksheet.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Compound Words: One Word from Two
Worksheet
Compound Words: One Word from Two
This worksheet will teach your child how to scrunch two words together to get one compound word.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Compound Word Coloring
Worksheet
Compound Word Coloring
This worksheet will help children identify compound words, by asking them to color-code the words on the page.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
More Addition Strategies
More Addition Strategies
As your child starts to tackle bigger sums, such as 13+15, teach them to draw a quick tens and ones picture to help them add these numbers more easily.
As students begin to tackle bigger sums, such as 13+15, teach them to draw a quick tens and ones picture to help them add these numbers more easily.
Draw and Add Challenge #5
Worksheet
Draw and Add Challenge #5
In this draw and add challenge worksheet, children draw pictures of the items they are adding in order to visualize their work.
1st grade
Math
Worksheet
Addition Demolition
Game
Addition Demolition
Kids sharpen mental addition skills with this silly construction math game.
1st grade
Math
Game
Math Mind Magic
Lesson plan
Math Mind Magic
Every student can be a magician after this lesson in mentally adding and subtracting by 10. No previous magic training required!
1st grade
Math
Lesson plan
Making Inferences about Characters and Stories
Making Inferences about Characters and Stories
Help your child organize story elements and make inferences about a character's actions and thoughts based on the text.
Whether getting to know new characters or reading familiar stories, point out a book's life lessons. Think aloud as you read: What is the character learning here? What does he or she realize?
Making Inferences
Worksheet
Making Inferences
Help your child read deeper into a story by having him practice making inferences about what happened.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
How to Analyze a Character
Lesson plan
How to Analyze a Character
Your students become masters at character analysis as they learn how to describe fictional characters by identifying traits and providing concrete evidence to support their thinking.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
Using Evidence to Analyze a Character
Lesson plan
Using Evidence to Analyze a Character
Your students will love learning all about the playful characters in a classic read-aloud text while digging into what makes characters unique. Use as a stand-alone or support lesson for the How to Analyze a Character lesson plan.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
Opinion Writing
Opinion Writing
Kids love to write reviews and opinion pieces! Before they put their thoughts to paper, take the time to brainstorm topics to write about. Chart your child's ideas!
Students love to write reviews and opinion pieces! Before they put their thoughts to paper, take the time to brainstorm topics to write about. Chart your students' ideas!
What’s Your Favorite Animal?
Worksheet
What’s Your Favorite Animal?
Students opine about their favorite animals and give reasons for their picks in this worksheet.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Pizza, Pizza…Come and Get It!
Worksheet
Pizza, Pizza…Come and Get It!
Help students grasp opinion writing and practice providing evidence with this worksheet.
1st grade
Worksheet
Do First Grade Opinions Matter?
Lesson plan
Do First Grade Opinions Matter?
Do your students respect their peers' opinions? This lesson teaches first graders that their opinions matter by encouraging them to write out opinions and back them up with reasons.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
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