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School-Home Links Reading Kit - February 1999
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Listed below are 100 School-Home Links activities for the first grade. The activities are organized by reading and literacy skills appropriate to this grade. Under each specific skill, there are varying numbers of activities to help children develop their ability to read and write. For the categories that have multiple activities, you can download the entire section or the individual activities within that section by selecting from a pull-down menu.
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NOTE: You may also download the entire First Grade Activities volume [2.2 MB] in PDF format.
Reading and Literacy Skills
- Knows the Parts of Books and Their Functions
Or select a single activity from the topics below...
- Reads and Comprehends Fiction and Nonfiction
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- Identifies Sentences
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- Differentiates Letters, Words, and Sentences
- Differentiating letters, words, and sentences
- Blends and Distinguishes Sounds in One-Syllable Words
Or select a single activity from the topics below...
- Recognizes and Names All Upper- and Lower-case Letters
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- Decodes Words
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- Reads Common Sight Words
- Reading common sight words
- Sounds Out Words
Or select a single activity from the topics below...
- Reads Aloud with Accuracy and Comprehension
Or select a single activity from the topics below...
- Recognizes Words by Sight
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- Builds Vocabulary
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- Creates Own Written Text
- Follows Directions
- Following two-step directions
- Forms Letters
- Uses Punctuation and Capitalization
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- Produces Sentences
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- Produces Stories
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- Organizes Ideas
- Collecting ideas before writing
- Engages in Literacy Activities
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Book Links
- Reads and Comprehends at Grade Level
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- Monitors Own Reading
- Reading for comprehension
- Predicts What Happens Next
- Learning to guess what will happen in a story
- Discusses Prior Knowledge
- Thinking about prior knowledge in relation to a story
- Describes New Information from Text
- Retelling information from a book
- Answers Simple Comprehension Questions
Or select a single activity from the topics below...
Acknowledgments
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