Using the Tell Us About It Speaking Activity, students tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.

Using the Can You Tell Us More? Speaking and Listening Activity, students ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to deepen understanding of a topic.

Using Exploring New Words Prefix Activity, students will use prefix and base cards to create new words and then define the each new word.

Using Favorite Books and Characters Activity, studentscompare and contrast characters in their favorite books.

Using Let's Read Emergent Readers Activity, students read the emergent reader with purpose and understanding to improve fluency and accuracy.

Using Asking Questions about a Story Activity, students Discuss a topic or read a book aloud using Question Cards to help guide questions andanswers about the topic.

Using Pirate Addition to 12 Activity, students match addition equation cards with sum cards to build addition fact fluency skills.

Using Subtraction Within 5 Activity, students solve single digit subtraction problems to build subtraction fact fluency.

Using Comparing Events Worksheet, students compare two informational texts to compare two events to determine how they are alike and different.

Using Tracking Genres I've Read Worksheet, students write examples of each kind of book that they have read throughout the year.

Using Comparing Informational Picture Storybooks Worksheet, students compare story elements intwo different stories about the same topic to determine how they are alike and different.

Using This Is What I Think Activity, students use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces.

Using Finger Spaces Sorting Activity, studentsread the book by following the words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page to build their understanding of the organization of print.

Using RF.1.2 Kindergarten Common Core Lesson, students sort pictures into long and short vowel categories to build their phonics skills.

This RF.1.4 First Grade Common Core Lesson First Grade Common Core Lesson includes RF.1.4 Worksheets, RF.1.4 Activities,RF.1.4 Assessment, andRF.1.4 Poster.

Using RI.1.4 First Grade Common Core Lesson, students Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text to build reading comprehension skills.

Using RI.1.6 First Grade Common Core Lesson, students distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.

Using RI.1.8 First Grade Common Core Lesson, students identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

Using RL.1.4 First Grade Common Core Lesson, students Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

This RL.1.5 First Grade Common Core Lesson includes RL.1.5 Worksheets, RL.1.5 Activities, RL.1.5 Assessment, and RL.1.5 Poster.