Using Listen for the Main Idea Activity,students determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.

This Collecting Words For Writing Activity helps studentsto use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.

Using this Find It In The Text Activity, students ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

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

Using Comparing Characters Activity, studentsuse popular picture books to compare and contrast the adventures of and experiences of characters in familiar stories.

Using this Fall CVC Mat Activity, students place letter tiles on the picture cards to create CVC words.

Using thisPumpkin Themed Writing Activity, students practice their comparing, sequencing, and poem writing skills while writing all about pumpkins!

Using this Flower Shape Book Activity, your students can create quick and simple books about themselves or stories about flowers or Springtime.

Using this House Shape Book Activity, your students can create quick and simple books about stories about their houses or homes.

Using Making Inferences Activity, students look at pictures and make inferences based on what they see to match descriptions. This is perfect for making inferences and drawing conclusions.

UsingEarth Day Reader's Theater, students act out different parts in the story Earth Day Hen to learn more about Earth Day.

Using Retell the Story Activity, students read Floppy Ears aloud to students and then use the question chart to assess students ability to retell the story.

Using this Three Amigos Poetry Drama Prose Activity, students sort the word cards by genre (prose, poetry, and drama). Use the sorted cards to label and fill out a Venn Diagram.

Using Digging for Information Text Structure Activity, students describe the relationship between events, scientific concepts, or procedures in a text.

Using Read It Syllables Activity, students know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

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

Using Reading Questions Camping Activity, students ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

Using What is the Main Topic? Activity,students identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.

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.