Less than $5 1st Grade Reading Strategies Handouts (by date, oldest first)

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Do you have literacy buddies with a younger class? Do you sometimes find your students off topic when they should be reading? Want to make life easier for yourself...and your buddy teacher? This package is for you.

This Literacy Buddy Handbook has been classroom tested and worked very well with my grade 6 class, working with a grade 3 class.

Common Core standards listed for grade 4, also meet standards for grades 5 and 6.

Included is:

* expectation sheet,

*questions to for students to ask their buddies,

* graphics reminders,

* reading log.

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Need a great, easy-to-use reading log? This was successfully used for many years when we had a time slot cut out for a 30-minute reading time each day. Students earn points towards rewards such as homework passes, computer time, or have your students earn point each six weeks or quarter for a special movie day event.

Unlock the power of literacy with our "Building Reading Fluency Using Short A Words" program!

This comprehensive and engaging resources is designed to help early readers master the fundamentals of reading by focusing on short "a" vowel sounds

Through a series of fun and interactive activities, students will practice blending and decoding short "a" words, enhancing their phonemic awareness and reading fluency.

Ideal for classroom use or at home learning, this program provides a solid foundation for young learners, paving the way for confident and proficient reading skills.

Perfect for teachers, parents, and tutors, this essential tool makes learning to read an enjoyable and rewarding experience.

What you get:

18 pages of short "a" words

38 words (2 per page to cut in half to make a booklet)

Enhance your students reading experience with these vibrant and adorable Monster Bookmarks pack. These cute and fun printable bookmarks will be the perfect Back to School or End of Year gift for your students. This printable pack includes 10 unique bookmarks, each featuring an adorable monster and an inspiring quote. These colorful bookmarks can be printed and laminated, making them durable and perfect for use as rewards, classroom incentives, or gifts for the first or last day of school. Teachers can use these monster bookmarks to encourage reading engagement and provide a fun visual aid during reading activities. The captivating quotes like Reading with monsters is monstrously fun! and Join the monster reading club and embark on extraordinary journeys will spark enthusiasm and curiosity among students. Give your students a whimsical companion as they dive into the pages of their favorite books and discover the joy of reading with these delightful monster bookmarks.

You can use these Monster bookmarks in your classroom in various ways:

1. Reading Incentives: Use bookmarks as rewards or incentives for students who reach reading goals, complete book reports, or participate in reading challenges.
2. Guided Reading: Provide bookmarks to students during guided reading sessions to help them keep track of their progress, mark important pages, or jot down notes and questions.
3. Reading Comprehension: Encourage students to use bookmarks to mark passages they find interesting, confusing, or important for discussions and comprehension activities.
4. Independent Reading: Encourage students to personalize their bookmarks and use them during independent reading time to keep their place in the book and track their reading progress.
5. Book Clubs or Literature Circles: Use bookmarks as discussion prompts or conversation starters during book club meetings or literature circle discussions.
6. Book Reviews: Have students design bookmarks with their own book reviews or recommendations to share with their peers.
7. Library Organization: Use bookmarks to categorize books in the classroom library or to mark specific genres, themes, or reading levels.

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Perfect for Kindergarten and First Grade Students!

Unlock the Magic of Reading with Simple CVC Sentences!

Our Reading Simple CVC Sentences Packet is expertly designed to help young learners master reading through engaging and accessible practice. Ideal for kindergarten and first grade students, this resource focuses on building confidence with CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words and sentences.

Features:

Simple CVC Sentences: Practice reading straightforward sentences that reinforce CVC word families, making reading a breeze.

Word Families: Emphasize key CVC word families to help students recognize patterns and build their vocabulary.

Repetition and Reinforcement: Multiple opportunities to read similar sentences, improving fluency and comprehension.

Varied Practice: Includes a mix of sentence structures to challenge students and enhance their reading skills.

This is a 2 page printer friendly black and white worksheet to print and hand to your students. While you read Would You Rather be a Bullfrog? by Theo LeSieg.

Tell you students something along the lines of:

"I'm going to read you a fun story. You need to think about each question comparing 2-3 nouns. A Noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. You wont tell me out loud which one you would rather be you are going color your choice. This is a great way to practice writing while listening."

The idea behind this worksheet is to allow students to:

• interact with the story that is quiet
• encourages decision making.
• allows students to start practicing skills for note taking.

Check out thiscolor version where students just circle their choice!

This is a both the 2 page printer friendly black and white worksheet and full color worksheet to print and hand to your students. While you read Would You Rather be a Bullfrog? by Theo LeSieg.

Tell you students something along the lines of:

"I'm going to read you a fun story. You need to think about each question comparing 2-3 nouns. A Noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. You wont tell me out loud which one you would rather be you are going color or circle your choice. This is a great way to practice writing while listening."

The idea behind this worksheet is to allow students to:

• interact with the story that is quiet
• encourages decision making.
• allows students to start practicing skills for note taking.

Cause and effect sequencing frames with pictures to help students paste and cut, put in order, and storytell, video, or write about. Comes with: CCSS Alignment Links 10 Activities 1 Blank Sequencing Sheet Extensions Differentiation Suggestions Fun for group or individual learning, creating group stories, real life connections, coordination skills, inferencing, phonics, writing and much more!

Completely revised product that includes 25 pages of fun for elementary learners to practice parts of speech and inferencing skills. Students use clues to come up with answers for "What's in the Bag?". All can be colored, cut apart, and pasted onto answer sheets. Comes with: Directions for individual, small, whole groups Extra activities and games suggestions How to Use with Student Writings Answer Sheet with Sight Words List of Parts of Speech Inferencing Clues Bag Handouts Bag Handout for My Parts of Speech Excellent for young learners to practice inferencing skills, parts of speech, eye and hand coordination, sight words, use with student writings, and more... Meets CCSS.

Have some Super Bowl fun with ten bingo sheets ready to be colored. Includes related football themed sight words and images: BALL FAN GO RUN TEAM WIN Images: Coach Fan Football Football Players Cheerleaders Watch Whistle, and more... Also, includes: Directions Symbol Sheets Sight Word Sheet Excellent for incorporating the big game into classroom learning! Work on basic skills such as: letters, motor skills, shapes, and sight reading. Fun and educational!

Practice inferencing and real life connections with these ten exercises for individual, small or whole groups. Visual clues provide inference activities for students to draw conclusions. Answers can be drawn or written, and students.

This is a 10-page set of worksheets (PDF file) for the story "The Paper Bag Princess" by Robert Munsch. The worksheets include:

* comprehension questions (multiple choice)

* comprehension questions (short answer)

* fill in the blanks

* vocabulary practice

* story analysis

* picture practice

* story map

* crossword puzzle

* fallen phrases puzzle

* word search

There is an answer key included at the end of the PDF file.

Distance Learning

There is also a link included in the PDF file to a Google Form with online worksheets for this story. You can use the link to save a copy of the online worksheets (Google Form) to your own Google Drive. Then from your Google Drive, you can share the online worksheets with your students.

The following activities are included in the online worksheets:

* comprehension questions (multiple choice)

* comprehension questions (short answer)

* fill in the blanks

* vocabulary practice

* true or false

Note that the content in the online worksheets is essentially the same as the related content in this pdf file. The purpose of the online worksheets is to allow students the possibility to complete some of the activities online.

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Worksheets for stories by Robert Munsch

This is a 27-page set of worksheets for the story "Stanley in Space" by Jeff Brown.

For every chapter, there is one page of comprehension questions.

The worksheets also include:

* review questions (4 pages)

* vocabulary practice (2 pages)

* fill in the blanks

* story analysis

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* illustrations

* story map

* news report

* crossword puzzle

* fallen phrases puzzle

* word search

Also, there is an answer key included at the end of the file.

Worksheets for the Flat Stanley series:

#1 Flat Stanley

#2 Stanley and the Magic Lamp

#3 Stanley in Space

#4 Invisible Stanley

#5 Stanley’s Christmas Adventure

#6 Stanley, Flat Again!

WA #3 The Japanese Ninja Surprise

WA #4 The Intrepid Canadian Expedition

WA #5 The Amazing Mexican Secret

WA #6 The African Safari Discovery

WA #9 The US Capital Commotion

This is a 10-page set of worksheets for the story "Stephanie's Ponytail" by Robert Munsch. The worksheets include:

* comprehension questions

* fill in the blanks

* vocabulary practice

* story analysis

* picture practice

* story map

* crossword puzzle

* fallen phrases puzzle

* word search

There is an answer key included at the end of the PDF file.

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Worksheets for stories by Robert Munsch

This is a set of 10 worksheets for the story "Alligator Baby" by Robert Munsch. The worksheets include:

* comprehension questions

* fill in the blanks

* vocabulary practice

* story analysis

* picture practice

* story map

* crossword puzzle

* fallen phrases

* word search

There is also an answer key included at the end of the PDF file.

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Worksheets for stories by Robert Munsch

This is a 22-page set of worksheets for the story "Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride" by Kate DiCamillo.

For each set of two chapters (C1-C2, C3-C4, etc...), there is one worksheet with comprehension questions.

In addition, this set includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* vocabulary

* story review

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* comic strip

* story map

* news report

* critical thinking

* crossword puzzle

* word search

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the file.

Worksheets for Kate DiCamillo books:

Because of Winn-Dixie

Flora & Ulysses

Leroy Ninker Saddles Up

The Magician’s Elephant

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Raymie Nightingale

The Tale of Despereaux

The Tiger Rising

Mercy Watson to the Rescue

Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride

Mercy Watson Fights Crime

Mercy Watson Princess in Disguise

Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig

Mercy Watson Something Wonky This Way Comes

This is a 23-page set of worksheets for the story "Mercy Watson Fights Crime" by Kate DiCamillo.

For each set of two chapters (C1-C2, C3-C4, etc...), there is one worksheet with comprehension questions.

In addition, this set includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* vocabulary

* story review

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* comic strip

* story map

* news report

* critical thinking

* crossword puzzle

* word search

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the file.

Worksheets for Kate DiCamillo books:

Because of Winn-Dixie

Flora & Ulysses

Leroy Ninker Saddles Up

The Magician’s Elephant

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Raymie Nightingale

The Tale of Despereaux

The Tiger Rising

Mercy Watson to the Rescue

Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride

Mercy Watson Fights Crime

Mercy Watson Princess in Disguise

Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig

Mercy Watson Something Wonky This Way Comes

This is a 22-page set of worksheets for the story "Mercy Watson Something Wonky This Way Comes" by Kate DiCamillo.

For each set of two chapters (C1-C2, C3-C4, etc...), there is one worksheet with comprehension questions.

In addition, this set includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* vocabulary

* story review

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* comic strip

* story map

* news report

* critical thinking

* crossword puzzle

* word search

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the file.

Worksheets for Kate DiCamillo books:

Because of Winn-Dixie

Flora & Ulysses

Leroy Ninker Saddles Up

The Magician’s Elephant

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Raymie Nightingale

The Tale of Despereaux

The Tiger Rising

Mercy Watson to the Rescue

Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride

Mercy Watson Fights Crime

Mercy Watson Princess in Disguise

Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig

Mercy Watson Something Wonky This Way Comes

This is a 10-page set of worksheets for the story "Andrew's Loose Tooth" by Robert Munsch. The worksheets include:

* comprehension questions

* fill in the blanks

* vocabulary practice

* story analysis

* picture practice

* story map

* crossword puzzle

* fallen phrases puzzle

* word search

There is an answer key included at the end of the PDF file.

Please click here for more worksheets for Robert Munsch stories:

Worksheets for stories by Robert Munsch

This is a 10-page set of worksheets for the story "Smelly Socks" by Robert Munsch.

The worksheets include:

* comprehension questions

* fill in the blanks

* vocabulary practice

* story analysis

* picture practice

* story map

* crossword puzzle

* fallen phrases puzzle

* word search

There is an answer key at the end of the PDF file.

Please click here for more worksheets for Robert Munsch stories:

Worksheets for stories by Robert Munsch