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This Week in First Grade
Week 36
Long Vowel Review
Long Vowel Review
It's important to review long vowels as the school year wraps up. Continue to point out words that contain long vowel sounds as you read at home with your child.
It's important to review long vowels this time of year. Print and make cards that have various long vowel patterned words and have students sort them by their vowel sound with partners.
Spot the Long Vowels
Worksheet
Spot the Long Vowels
Challenge your young students to read words with many different vowel patterns with this fun worksheet. Combining reading and coloring, this activity is a fun way to practice differentiating between long and short vowel sounds.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Long Vowel Review
Worksheet
Long Vowel Review
What does a long vowel sound like? Students will sound out four words and choose which words have a long vowel.
kindergarten
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Long and Short Vowel Review
Interactive Worksheet
Long and Short Vowel Review
Distinguishing between long and short vowel sounds is one of the first steps in mastering vowels. Gauge student understanding of long and short vowels with this review activity.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
Interactive Worksheet
Addition, Subtraction, and Numbers to 120
Addition, Subtraction, and Numbers to 120
Play math games at home to help your child review while end-of-year assessments are going on at school.
If you are starting end-of-the-year math assessments, have students play review games or work on worksheets while you pull kids individually or in small groups to work on specific skills.
Roadblock: Addition Within 20
Game
Roadblock: Addition Within 20
To help Roly move through obstacles, kids learn a regrouping strategy to make addition within 20 easily!
1st grade
Math
Game
Scavenger Hunt Addition
Lesson plan
Scavenger Hunt Addition
Get your students moving with this activity that helps them practice their addition skills while having fun hunting for their next problem.
1st grade
Math
Lesson plan
Build It on a Ten Frame
Lesson plan
Build It on a Ten Frame
Students will get plenty of practice composing tens with ten frames to add to 20! Use this scaffolded EL Lesson alone or for more addition practice before teaching the Scavenger Hunt Addition lesson.
1st grade
Math
Lesson plan
Shared Reading
Shared Reading
Try sharing a poem every day with your child. This can help them review rhyming words, vowel patterns, sight words, and fluency.
Start the day reading a poem or chant written on chart paper with the whole class. This is also a great way to review rhyming words, vowel patterns, and sight words, and to practice reading fluency.
Find Words That Rhyme
Worksheet
Find Words That Rhyme
Test your child's mastery of the rhyme with this worksheet that challenges her to fill in the blanks in the rhyme-filled poem "Cats on a Mat."
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Caterpillar
Worksheet
Caterpillar
Familiarity with different types of texts is an important part of the first grade reading curriculum. In this worksheet, kids read Christina Rossetti's famous poem, "Caterpillar" and then answer questions about what they read.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Story vs. Poem
Lesson plan
Story vs. Poem
What makes a poem a poem? And what makes a story a story? In this lesson, students learn to distinguish between different types of texts while analyzing the sentences and words they encounter.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
Author's Celebration
Author's Celebration
As you near the end of the year, help your child assemble a folder of their favorite writing from the year. Set aside time for them to share a piece of their writing with family or friends as a way to celebrate their growth as writers!
As you near the end of the year, have students assemble a folder of their favorite writing from the year. Set aside time for students to share a piece of their writing as a way to celebrate their growth as writers!
Opinion Template
Worksheet
Opinion Template
Help your 1st grader write awesome opinions with this Handwriting Without Tears opinion writing template.
1st grade
Worksheet
Animal Opinion Writing
Worksheet
Animal Opinion Writing
Would your first grader rather see an alligator or a camel at the zoo? Have them write their opinion with this opinion practice worksheet.
1st grade
Worksheet
Let's Write Right Now
Lesson plan
Let's Write Right Now
A good writer doesn't leave his readers waiting. Help your young authors pen some descriptive sentences and narrative paragraphs right now with this teacher-approved lesson.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
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