Free 1st Grade Reading Strategies Resources

Keep track of your reading adventures with our adorable Animal Reading Lists! Perfect for students and homeschoolers, these free printable lists feature charming animals enjoying their favorite books.

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Get organized and track your reading progress with our delightful Animal Reading Lists! This freebie includes four unique designs, each featuring lovable animals immersed in the joy of reading. Students can record essential information such as the book title, author, and number of pages, creating a personalized log of their reading journey.

These printable reading lists provide a fun and engaging way for students to stay organized and motivated in their reading endeavors. With adorable animal illustrations and plenty of space to jot down details, these lists make it easy for readers to keep track of the books they've read and explore new literary adventures.

Why You'll Love This Product:

• Adorable Designs: Capture students' interest with charming animal illustrations, making tracking reading progress fun and enjoyable.
• Promotes Organization: Encourage students to stay organized by providing a structured format for recording book details.
• Motivates Reading: Inspire a love of reading and encourage students to explore new books by keeping a log of their reading accomplishments.
• Free Resource: Accessible to all students and homeschoolers, providing a valuable tool for tracking reading progress at no cost.
• Easy to Use: Simply print and use! These reading lists are ready to go, making them convenient for both students and educators.

Who This Product Is For:

1. Homeschoolers seeking a simple and effective way to track their reading progress and incorporate literacy activities into their curriculum.
2. Teachers looking for engaging tools to motivate students to read and keep track of their independent reading assignments.
3. Parents interested in fostering a love of reading in their children and providing them with tools to track their reading habits.
4. Librarians aiming to encourage library patrons, especially young readers, to explore new books and keep track of their reading adventures.
5. Reading enthusiasts of all ages who want to keep a record of the books they've read and create reading goals for themselves.

Looking for engaging and fun "SH" consonant digraphs worksheets and digital phonics lesson? This true no-prep product includes consonant digraphs worksheets, a whole class reward system, tongue twisters, maze reading, and digraph sorting!

Problem Types Include: identifying the "SH" digraph through sound, sight, and writing

Solving teacher problems: 

   ⭐ capturing - and sustaining - students’ attention for the full lesson

   ⭐ a TRUE zero-prep lesson with activities. Pull this lesson out in a pinch!

   ⭐ parents/guardians can use this for a fun homeschooling lesson

I use this very same lesson in my own classroom and I’ve become popular for getting quiet, shy, and unwilling students to participate and have fun!

NOTE: This resource includes both a Google Slide™ presentation and printable worksheets. Please review the product images and preview for samples of the included slides and pages.

The Presentation Includes:

   ✏ structured and guided teacher notes for a true no-prep product

   ✏ digital detailed lesson plan for quick reference 

   ✏ an exciting built-in whole class reward system (students love this feature!)

   ✏ a fun and silly warm-up question to get students engaged

   ✏ topic warm-up question and topic introduction

   ✏ examples of “sh” in the beginning, middle, and end of words with pictures

   ✏ unscrambling the "sh" word activity

   ✏ visual activities for students to find the picture that has a “sh” sound

   ✏ visual activity for students to guess what “sh” word images have in common

   ✏ identifying the “sh” word within a group of words activity

   ✏ digital tongue twister

   ✏ images of the printable worksheets for easy instruction

   ✏ My signature Adventure Time with Mavis the Monster game (students love how much Mavis gets into trouble!)

   ✏ Monster Maze! (students must read the SH words to see where the monster is going!)

The Worksheets Include:

   ✏ 1 comprehensive lesson plan

   ✏ 2 craft activities (cut and paste)

   ✏ 2 group activities (working in small groups)

   ✏ 2 enrichment worksheets

   ✏ 1 homework sheet to strengthen retention

   ✏ 4 different exit tickets/slips

   ✏ 1 “sh” digraph tongue twister

   ✏ No prep! Simply print and distribute (with or without the presentation) 

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Print these fun bookmarks on colored or white cardstock and provide them to your students. The goal is to challenge the students to read and keep up with the number of books they read. Once they have finished a book, they are to color it to reflect they have finished the book.

You may also choose to laminate and them and have them use a permanent marker to cross out the emoji.

This product has the number words 1-10 spread out all over the page in colorful lettering for children to circle numbers 1-10 in order as fast as possible!

Good for reading number words, sequencing, and your memory!

The preview formatting is a little different than what product looks like because of the way it was generated. All the words should be on one page, instead of two. If for some reason you buy it and it looks like that, please tell me and I will fix it.

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Unlock the power of reading with our Decodable Digital Letter Sound Google Slides! This interactive resource is designed to enhance letter recognition and phonics skills for young learners. Each slide features clear and engaging visuals of letters, allowing students to read and identify each letter by simply clicking on it. The audio feature enables them to hear the corresponding sounds, making it easier for them to associate letters with their phonetic sounds.

These slides are perfect for classroom use, providing teachers with a dynamic and interactive way to introduce letter sounds to their students. They can be used during guided reading sessions, literacy centers, or independent practice. With a user-friendly format, these slides make learning fun and effective!

Benefits:

• Engaging visuals that capture students' attention
• Click-to-read feature for interactive learning
• Supports letter recognition and phonics skills
• Ideal for diverse learning environments

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Introducing Picture Pages, a vocabulary learning system all students (including English language learners and struggling readers) can use to master the academic language they need to succeed. After a decade of research and extensive classroom testing, the Vocabulary Magic™ team is excited to share this engaging and highly effective strategy!

Vocabulary Words included: chat, bend, coast, dusk, lean, grin, heap, leap, meet

Picture Pages was developed to address 8 key elements:

1. Provide students with the opportunity to develop and work in small learning communities.
2. Increased student-to-student opportunities for listening, speaking, reading, and writing in a sheltered environment.
3. The availability of relevant, interesting pictures and concise definitions that support student understanding and retention of new vocabulary.
4. Structured opportunities that help students to relate to new words and allow for discussion about prior knowledge/life experiences.
5. The availability of sentence stems and note-taking techniques that support speaking, writing, and summarizing in complete sentences.
6. A support system to encourage students to take academic risks and listen to different points of view.
7. The availability of timely feedback followed by an opportunity for self-correction.
8. Continued opportunities for students to engage with newly learned vocabulary in stories and game-like extension activities.

Picture Pages taps into the power of imagery, conversation, collaboration, and play to ensure all students (including English Language Learners) build-essential language skills. Intentionally teaching carefully selected high-utility words that appear frequently in the text across multiple content areas will boost student confidence, reading comprehension, and fluency. Each Picture Page introduces nine new words and is used with our researched “5-Step Process”. The new words are then presented in an intriguing, illustrated story, and accompanying activity pages (both printable and electronically on Google Slides). See the delight on your student’s faces as they master challenging vocabulary and watch their confidence soar!

This sight word worksheet packet contains eight no prep worksheets for practicing reading, writing and spelling the target sight word. The sight word is taught in context with targeted sight word reading fluency passages and unscrambling sentences pages. Other sight word activities include tracing the sight word, writing the sight word and spelling the sight word. There is also a page included for students to get creative and decorate the sight word. This packet focuses on the sight word a.

This packet contains the following activities:

• Build a Sentence: Students will cut out the words and unscramble the sentence using their sight word. They will then draw a picture of what the sentence is about.
• Sight Word Practice Sheet: Students will color the sight word, trace the sight word, write the sight word and finally cut out the letters that spell the word and paste them in the correct boxes.
• Sight Word Word Search: Students will color the sight word, draw the sight word, trace the sight word and finally find the sight word in the word search.
• Sight Word Dab: Students will dab, color or cover the sight word.
• Sight Word Tracing Page: Students can trace or rainbow write their sight word.
• Sight Word Color Page: Students can color or paint their sight words.
• Sight Word Write and Read: Students will trace the sight word, write the sight word in the space in each sentence and then students will read the sentences.
• Sight Word Reading Page: Students will read the story and then draw a picture to represent the story.

Get this packet as a part of the following bundle:

Sight Word Work: PrePrimer Set

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This digital resource can be easily downloaded and printed for classroom use. The word search can include seasonal and May Day-related vocabulary such as "celebrate," "flowers," "basket" and "spring."

Overall, using this May Day spring-themed word search resource can be a great addition to classroom activities during the May Day holiday and spring season.

This Freebie is part of the May Day Spring Bundle. Feel free tocheck it out here!

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This Decodable Sentence Pyramids Worksheet are designed for Kindergarten and First Grade students, offering two differentiated activities to cater to varying skill levels. One activity focuses on building sentences from simple words, helping students connect individual words to form complete sentences. The other activity emphasizes comprehension, encouraging students to understand and engage with the sentences they create to develop confidence and fluency in reading. Focusing on CVC words and sight words, which are foundational for early literacy, these worksheets gradually increase sentence complexity to help students enhance their decoding skills, improve comprehension, and build a solid foundation for reading success.

Benefits

• Develop confidence and fluency in reading
• Focus on CVC words and sight words
• Enhance decoding skill
• Improve comprehension
• Build a solid foundation for reading success

Instructions/Tips for Implementation

This worksheet can be used in small group, whole class, or individually. Teachers can incorporate them into their reading lessons to help students practice reading decodable sentences and improve their literacy skills.

Testimonials

"My students loved using these worksheets to practice their reading skills. It really helped improve their fluency and confidence!" - Adams

Fundations® Compatible - Units 2, Level 1 GAME PACK

Game Pack Additions:

1. Word Search Adventure: Engage students with a fun-filled word search using the sight words they've learned. This activity not only reinforces their ability to recognize and locate words but also adds an element of enjoyment to the learning process.
2. Roll the Dice and Write the Word: Spice up learning with a game of chance! Students roll the dice and write the corresponding sight word. This game not only reinforces their spelling but also introduces an element of excitement and unpredictability.
3. Sight Word Maze Challenge (4 Versions): Immerse students in a maze-solving adventure where they color the given sight word to navigate from start to end. With four unique versions, this activity adds a creative twist to sight word mastery, making learning both enjoyable and memorable.

Six worksheets total.

Words included: the, a, and, is, his, of

Have you ever wished students in the prereading and early reading stage could have opportunities to be fluent and build automaticity? How can students who barely know letter names and sounds become fluent? Ready Reads are just what you are looking for.

Ready Reads are warm up activities for the eyes and the brain and can support any curriculum. Ready Read charts cumulatively follow the scope and sequence of UFLI and support the Science of Reading. Use these in small group, whole group on the projector, in partners for accountability, or for students to whisper read to themselves. They can easily be adapted in an I read, We read, You read or Your turn, My turn format. Ready Reads can be used for students to say the letter name and/or the letter sound practicing grapheme recognition as well as phoneme recall. For pre-readers and early readers alike, this activity builds the left to right progression of reading and builds fluency for letters and concepts already learned. This is the building block for automaticity and fluent reading.

This freebie gets you started up to lesson 3. Get the full resource for Kinder, 1st, and 2nd to build your students' automaticity here! Kinder here 1st-2nd *Coming Soon*

Use this graphic organizer to help students retell any story. Students will practice retelling only the most important parts of a story. Each section - Beginning, Middle, and End has a box for an illustration as well.

First Grade - Dolch Sight Words for Literacy | Peace Sign Color by Code Freebie: Your first graders will love this peace sign color-by-code worksheet that reinforces Dolch sight words! Perfect for enhancing literacy skills, this activity combines a fun retro design with essential sight word practice. Ideal for independent practice or literacy centers, this worksheet makes learning sight words engaging and enjoyable!

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What's Included

• 1 peace sign color by code worksheet
• answer key
• includes the most challenging first grade dolch sight words: round, again, could, every, give, once

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Use these phoneme-grapheme mapping charts in your phonics and small group lessons! Two options are provided. One with 4 sound boxes for earlier readers and one with 7 boxes for more advanced patterns.

See the video below for this chart in action!

Word Mapping Chart Video

Consonant Vowel Consonant (CVC) Strategies

• CVC Word Search
• CVC Picture, Writing, and Sentence Practice
• CVC Modified Picture, Writing, and Sentence Practice
• CVC Word Practice
• CVC Modified Word Practice
• Quizlet- Digital Practice for students & parents

Check out samples on my Instagram: @icvc.early.learning

Teachers Helping Teachers:

Vocabulary instruction is an important component of literacy instruction in preschool. It also provides children with an understanding of a variety of words which in turn can help with later reading comprehension. When a child is exposed to vocabulary in a vocabulary. A child needs to be taught vocabulary in many different ways.

Using Quizlet At The Younger Levels:

Below you are going to find a nice review quizlet made by icvc.early.learning that seeks to provide a great review resource for you. QUIZLET: https://quizlet.com/884353827/icvc-animal-cvc-words-worksheet-and-photo-hunt-flash-cards/?i=3b2vg\&x=1qqt

Save the link and use it to do any or all of the following:

*Create Review flashcards to send home of the CVC words and the sentences tried out in class

*You can play games with them

*Share the link with parents- they can hit play in the car or at home to have the flashcards flip through and review items learned in class

*You can hit play to preview the terms and sentences or review them with your kiddos

*I LOVE doing repeat-after-me activities where the Quizlet reads it and then my kiddos repeat it.

*projecting onto your board, then sounding out the words together it key with the focus being on JUST the words and sentences without the busy pictures and activities around them.

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This graphic organizer will help students map out connections they have made to a lesson or a book! This is a free sample of my Graphic Organizers for Primary Grade which is 24 difference Graphic Organizers! Your feedback is important! Please rate and comment 1st Grade Salt Life

Circle animal names in alphabetical order as fast as you can!

Good for reading vocabulary, sequencing and memory!

Formatting is a little different in the preview. There should be more words that show up.

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This sight word flower craft includes 3 different craft templates for the sight word "and." Students can decorate each petal then build their own flower. These pages can also be printed out on colored card stock to make a sight word matching center.

Templates Included:

• Basic Template with words on solid petals
• Silly Font Template with words in different fonts on solid petals
• Decorative Template with words on patterned background.

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VC words are simple, two-letter words made up of a vowel followed by a consonant, such as "at," "in," or "up." These words are beneficial for early readers because they introduce basic phonics skills, helping students recognize and blend vowel and consonant sounds. Mastering VC words builds a strong foundation for decoding more complex words, improves reading fluency, and boosts confidence in early literacy development.

Benefits

• Mastering sound blending

• Developing fluency in reading phonetically regular words

• Supports early literacy skill development

• Lays the groundwork for advanced reading comprehension

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