Using Share Your Opinion About Your Favorite Book Activity, students write opinion pieces in which they state an opinion about the book and supply reasons that support the opinion.

This Using New Words From Books Activity helps studentsto use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.

Using What Have You Read This Year Activity, students read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry.

Using Who What When Where Why How Activity, students ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

Using Why Was it Written Author's Purpose Activity, students identify if the author wrote a text in order to answer, explain, or describe.

Using Barnyard Prefix Matching Activity, students match prefixes to their definitions to build their vocabulary.

Using Beginning Middle End Plot Activity, students describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

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 Character Setting Plot Activity, studentsfind examples of story elements as they read to build their reading comprehension.

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

Using Comparing Two Stories Activity, students compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures.

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 Irregular Plural Nouns Activity, students match singular and plural nouns to build their understanding of proper usage.

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

Using Point of View Activity, students identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.

Using Authors Purpose Picture Sorting Activity, students identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

Using Main Idea and Details Reading Activity,students read any book and respond to the questions to gain a better understanding of the main idea.

Using this Find and Measure Activity, students measure common objects to the nearest unit to build their measurement skills.

Using Position Words Butterfly Activity, students choose a word from the box to describe where the butterfly is located in relation to the object to build their positional word vocabulary.

Using the After Reading Discussion Cards, students actively engage in group reading activities to discuss purpose and understanding after shared reading.