Reading
ReadingClick here for the sight words your student will be studying: Sight Word Practice
Click here to go to the Phonograms your student will be studying: Phonogram Practice
Click here to go to Readquarium for on-line games: Readquarium
Click on the link below. Then click on "free books" to access free online books for your student.
meegenius, interactive books for kids
Click here to go to a site that helps with making inferences. Successful readers make guesses based on what they read and on what they already know. This game will help students learn how to make inferences, plus it is fun!
http://www.philtulga.com/Riddles.html Making Inferences
Contractions that your 1st grader will be studying during his first grade year:
I'm she's can't
he's it's didn't
Additional contractions that we will be visiting:
aren't couldn't wouldn't
doesn't weren't shouldn't
First Grade Word Families:
These are the word families your student will be working with during his first grade year.
Fun Comprehension Strategies That Can be Used at Home
-ab
-ent
-ice
--ob
-uck
-ash
-eet
-ing
-ock
-um
-all
eep
-ink
-oat
-unk
-ack
-eat
-ick
-oak
-ump
-ank
-eed
-ide
-ate
-ell
-ine
-ake
-est
-ill
-ame
-eel
-im
-ay
Four Ways to Retell a Story:
1. Retell the story to a partner or to a stuffed animal.
2. Write or draw the beginning, middle, and end of the story on a piece of paper folded into thirds.
3. Act out the story in your own words.
4. Write the key events of a story under four columns headed:
Somebody: Wanted: But: So:
Begin with an important character from the story and complete the chart. This is a great activity for learning "problem and solution." See example below.
Our Retelling of "The Three Little Pigs"
To practice a
word chunk,
Click on the chipmunk.
Reading With Your Child
For great links to the do's and don'ts of reading aloud, click on the links below.
Please remember to read 20 minutes with your child every night.
"WHY CAN'T I SKIP MY 20 MINUTES OF
READING TONIGHT?"
LET'S FIGURE IT OUT --- MATHEMATICALLY!
Student A reads 20 minutes five nights of every week; Student B reads only 4 minutes a night...or not at all!
Step 1: Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week. Student A reads 20 min. x 5 times a week = 100 mins./week. Student B reads4 minutes x 5 times a week = 20 minutes.
Step 2: Multiply minutes a week x 4 weeks each month. Student A reads 400 minutes a month.Student B reads 80 minutes a month.
Step 3: Multiply minutes a month x 9 months/school year. Student A reads 3600 min. in a school year. Student B reads 720 min. in a school year. Student A practices reading the equivalent of ten whole school days a year. Student B gets the equivalent of only two school days of reading practice.
By the end of 6th grade if Student A and Student B maintain these same reading habits, Student A will have read the equivalent of 60 whole school days. Student B will have read the equivalent of only 12 school days. One would expect the gap of information retained will have widened considerably and so, undoubtedly, will school performance. How do you think Student B will feel about him/herself as a student?
Some questions to ponder:
Which student would you expect to read better?
Which student would you expect to know more?
Which student would you expect to write better?
Which student would you expect to have a better vocabulary?
Which student would you expect to be more successful in school....and in life?