First Grade 

Below you will find a list of The Five Big Ideas of Reading and Letter Recognition. Your student can select a components and then choose a Home Activity and then play a game.

*Sight words are meant to be read quickly and not sounded out. Please practice sight words regularly. You can read off the list, play games, make flashcards, etc. 

*Phonemic Awareness- The ability to notice, think about and work with individual sounds.

*Letter Recognition- Ability to know name and sound of upper and lower case letters.

*Phonics- Letter sound relation to reading and spelling words accurately and quickly.

*Vocabulary- Understanding of new words and concepts.

*Fluency- Reading quickly and accurately, and with expression. 

*Comprehension- Making meaning of text and communicate meaning about what was read.


First Grade Sight Words


Sight words are meant to be read quickly and not sounded out.

Please practice sight words regularly. You can read off the list, play games, make flashcards, etc. 

all

am

around

black

but

by

call

come

do

sat

fast

get

going

had

help

him

her

his

if

its

round

so

soon

ten

under

your

school

gave

that

made

saw

with

an

after

as

be

brown

cold

did

fly

from

give

apple

girl

water

the

of

and

to

in

you

for

it

on

is

he

are

as

at

this

from

have

by

one

know

may

now

then

find

when

what

has

over

were

live

got

they

went

many

walk

them

let

new

put

children

into

make

no

old

out

was

who

she

some

stop

two