Using Fables and Folktales Activity,students recount fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

Using Gold Medal Reading Strategies Activity, students read grade-level text with purpose and understanding using graphic organizers for support.

Using this Greater Than Less Than Dolphin Activity, students sort numbers into categories by deciding whether numbers are greater than or less than 50.

Using this Sort Count Graph Activity, students count the amount of fruits and vegetables to record them on a graph.

Using Fun With Poetry Activity, students read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1. to build reading comprehension skills.

Using Retelling Stories Activity,students put the Event Cards in the correct order to retell the story to build summarizing skills.

Using This is What I Know Activity, studentswrite informative text in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure using research from books.

Using this Total Recall Activity, students share stories about different experiences from their lives to build their speaking and listening skills.

Using Adding Details to Your Story Activity, students give a description and then add detail to the story by responding to questions and peer suggestions to inspire a longer writing piece.

Using this Asking and Answering Questions Activity, students participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

Using Compare Books Activity, studentsidentify basic similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic.

Using Key Details for Comprehension Activity, students read The Lucky Blue Shoes to describe the characters, setting, and major events in the story.

Using Making Connections in a Story Activity, studentsmake connections as they read to build their understanding of what they have read.

Using this Comparing and Ordering Numbers 1-10 Activity, students use the lion number cards to compare each number and sort them into the categories that they belong.

Using this Name that Shape Sorting Activity, students sort pictures of 2D shapes into the category that best describes which shape is shown.

Using Letter Sounds and Rhymes Worksheet, students match the pictures that rhyme by connecting the dots and writing the words.

Using this Amelia Bedelia Author and Illustrator Worksheet, students describe the title, author, and illustrator of an Amelia Bedelia book.

Using this Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Authors Worksheet, students describe what authors do to tell their story.

Using Making Connections Between Stories Activity, studentsdescribe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

Using Pictures Tell Stories Sequencing Activity, studentsdescribethe relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear.