Reading
We are into our first basal reader - "Let's Learn Together". Each week we work on two stories.
Week 1 - The Nap and Oh, Cats!
Fun web site:MBGnet
Skills: identify complete sentences, use context clues, use vocabulary correctly in sentences, comprehension, and read fluently.
Word Wall Words: come, down, away, no, will
Week 2 - Look at That! and Can You Find It?
Fun web site: Animals in our Backyard - Nature Trail at Pocantico Hills School
Skills: identify the naming parts of sentences, cause & effect , use vocabulary correctly in sentences, comprehension, and read fluently.
Word Wall Words: all, are, find, make, play
Week 3 - What Did I See? and I Went Walking
Fun web site: Farm Animals
Skills: identifying action parts of a sentence, predicting, use vocabulary correctly in sentences, comprehension, and read fluently.
Word Wall Words: went, walk, did, saw, me.
Week 4 - Fish Mix and How Many Fish?
Fun web site: Marine Fishes of Hawai'i
Skills: identifying the setting (where the story takes place), choosing the correct word order to match a picture, use vocabulary correctly in sentences, comprehension, and read fluently.
Word Wall Words: how, many, on, why, they
Week 5 - Jog, Frog, Jog and Tadpole to Frog
Fun web site: Hop to It - Irish Frog Survey - Interesting Frog Facts
Skills: identify the author's purpose (reason for writing a story - information, humor), writing& identifying telling sentencess, use vocabulary correctly in sentences, comprehension, and read fluently.
Word Wall Words: done, into, he, this, water
Week 6: A Big Job and Sweet Potato Pie
Skills: use vocabulary correctly in sentences, comprehension, and read fluently.
Word Wall Words: by, eat, sing, stop, them
Additional reading practice sites:
Language Arts Standards - 1st grade student performance skills
Archived: Start Early, Finish Strong: How to Help Every Child Become a Reader - July 1999
Learning to Read, Write, Spell and Mathematics. For parents and teachers.
Between the Lions . Fuzzy Lion Ears | PBS KIDS!
Clifford Interactive Storybooks Home
StoryPlace Pre-school Library: The Barnyard Chorus
StoryPlace Topsy Turvy Tales: Dinos Rock
BBC - The Little Animals Activity Centre - Storybear's stories